+ Brian woke up to a poke poke, and then Amy sleepily saying “it’s 6:45″ We had slept in 45 minutes! We put it into hyper drive and made it to the train station with plenty of time. + Spain’s high speed trains are nice. We both slept and missed out on the Spanish movie. + Arrived at hostal Campi just off Ramblas street. + Instead of big flyers to advertise retaurants, museums, and attractions, our hotel has little business card like things that are really handy! More places should use them. Using one of these cards we discover Kirin, an all you can eat Japanese buffet. We go there and eat. a lot. + We do a self guided walking tour down Ramblas. + Tour leads us to a quiet spot where Roman tombs that lined the pathway to the Roman city gate were found during construction + Made a detour through La Boqueria and bought some fruit and some delicious smoothies. + Brian sees coconut and reminisces about Hawaii and buys some + Walked along harbur, and then found a nice shadey place to eat our fruit. + wandered for a bit before deciding to explore the Barcelona Cathedral. + Saw lots of remains of Roman walls that people had built on top of + Once done touring we discovered that our hotel was just around the corner. We headed back so Brian could take a little siesta. + Used hotel computers to plan out some activities including seeing the London symphony play in one of Brian’s favorite buildings! + Still full from food, we headed out to find some food. An Applebees – like place (not only was the environment like Applebees, it was called la Poma and had an apple logo) suggested by Rick Steves was across the street. The picture menu outside looks ok but not great. Brian says, “let’s check inside to see the prices.” We walked in and a waiter says, “two people?” Brian says “yes” and Amy finds herself mindlessly following Brian to a table. We had made our restaurant decision for the night. Next time Brian will ask to see the menu. + Walked down Ramblas at night to see if it was very different. It is pretty much the same except more spray paint artists. + After browsing through some postcards (which is a good way to figure out what you want to see) we decide to see this crazy colorful skyscraper which appears to be beside the Sagrada Familia. + We metro over to the Sagrada Familia and take lots of pictures of it in the night sky. From one angle the spot light actually casted a shadow of the spires onto the clouds above. Pretty strange to see. Amy spots oddly colored clouds in the distance and figures the skyscraper is in that direction, but no skyscraper in sight. After consulting our map we see that the skyscraper is actually pretty far away for us to walk at night (Amy was right about the direction, though!). We head back into the metro to try again. However we then notice that according to the metro signs the trains stop running at midnight. It was 11:40. So we decide to save this skyscraper for another night. +