Decadence Day

I have declared this day, for myself, a holiday. Decadence Day: a day of lounging on the beach, swimming occasionally, and gaining a scorching second sunburn. I even took the 5€ massage bait, and had myself a suprisingly good 15 minute massage. Danny watched.

We have mostly been relaxing in Barcelona. There´s an awful smell in the hostel (somewhat like formaldehyde and pork grinds). Today was our last day, so we went to our favorite place, the beach of course. There were a lot of interesting people out and about. One man carried at least 30 donuts on a platter on top of his head and sang la bamba with the words: Me gusta la playa. I snapped a picture at the perfect time while he was shaking a man´s hand. I will post when I can. The beach was covered with people, and their skin kind of blended in with the sand at some point. I felt like Jimmy Buffet today, because I was clearly on island time. We approached the beach around 11, and left at 6 thinking it was 3 in the afternoon. This is the point in my life where I need to buy dolphin earrings.

Le tomorrow we are going to Le Paris. We at least knew, or could understand the languages in the cities thus far, but Pairs. Oh no no no. Although, I tend to enjoy socially awkward situations, because when I get back to America everything will be so easy. Now, I don´t think I could feel weird about buying the weirdest things in English, like a sequined bra or something. Not that I would want a sequined bra.

I am extremely excited and ready to absorb Paris. It is our last city before we return to Madrid, and there are so many interesting things to see.

As a tribute to my stay in Spain and Lisbon, I will document the power ballad that Danny and I wrote about pigeons. Ideally, we would like Kurt Cobain to play it, but imagination will do.

Don´t feed the rats
Don´t feed the rats old woman
they travel in packs
and don´t need no snacks
Don´t feed those dirty old rats

It needs some work, but it´ll do.

So Paris, Paris, here I come. Paris Je´taime (great movie by the way, I recommend it with no reservations).
It is time to embark.