MontJuic and Barcelona Pavilion

Friday was probably one of the best days that I've had in Barcelona so far,

We woke up and took a cable car up to Mont Juic (The mountain of the Jews) apparently in 1988 an entire cable car fell and the tourists in it died, but we didn't find that out till after so, we just had a great time looking down at the city as we went up the mountain.
There is a beautiful old castle on top of the mountain where we wondered around and just enjoyed the sun, the view, the stray cats and all the couples who were making out everywhere. You could also see all the major Landmarks from the mountain, including the building where our apartment is.

We hiked down the mountain (which i strongly recomend instead of hiking up) and saw Calatrava's Communication Tower, where the olympics were a few years back, the botanical gardens and the art museum.

The final thing we saw was the Barcelona Pavilion which was awesome, because we've learned about it for years, but we finally got to go inside. From the outside it was a disappointment, all the grass in the yard in front is dead because people play with their dogs and hang out on the lawn, but the inside was everything I expected. The marble patterns are intricate and stunning and even though we didn't get to sit in Mies's original chairs, it was pretty cool to see them, since so many replicas have been made. I'm sure I'll return more than once by the time the trip is over.

Some people stole rocks from the reflecting pool, but I didn't because I remember learning how the remains of the Acropolis are shrinking because so many tourists steel rocks from it and even though I'm positive that they have since replaced the original rocks, I didn't want future visitors to have a lesser experience because of me.

We took the metro home after seeing the Pavilion and the rest of the night was realy good too.

After a snack we went shopping. I'm on a search for skinny jeans and boots, because every female I see here rocks that style, but I was unable to find them. When we got back from shopping we heard a ton of noise that sounded like drumming from our plaza, at first we thought there was a protest, but then we realized that it was some sort of school spirit activity for the University across the plaza from us. Everyone was dressed in black and red and there was a band drumming, people dressed up as witches, a dragon and people spitting fire on stilts. They even lit fireworks like right in our plaza that exploded in front of our apartment, they were awesome. Another thing that would never be allowed in the states.

We have Fridays off and we try to do something touristy and fun every week, but this upcoming weekend we are traveling to Madrid, so we shall see.