sabado, 8 de junio

We woke up Saturday excited to head to the beach! It was beautiful weather with a slight breeze but was supposed to reach around 80 degrees.  Getting our stuff together in the morning was quite a hassel because as I went to sit on my bed to get my stuff togeter...my bed fell to the ground.  Me and Jen couldn't control our laughter and all I could say was "demasiado pan" (too much bread, given that is a staple at ever meal.)  Once I pulled myself together again we figured out that the bed literally just folds and pops into place, so it was a quick fix.

My fallen bed

We headed across the street to our favorite cafe and grabbed a bocadillo de tortilla de patatas before hopping on the tram-via for the beach.  We met up with a few girls who were already at the beach and settled down.  After about 20 minutes or so and when nearly the entire group had arrived we made the executive decision to rent beach chairs for the day.  The wind was a little strong down there and was sandblasting our faces and covering our towels.  The chairs were cheaper than expected and totally worth the purchase.  I tested out the water and it was a little chilly but then Beth and I just decided to charge on it.  I was amazed at how salty the water really was.  We headed back in to relax a bit until the next dive into the mar.

Perfect day

The boys all showed up later after us and immediately decided to dig a large hole.  It was funny watching 5 grown guys all digging in the sand building a "resort" for a lady bug they had found.  While they were doing that two randos approached our chairs asking where they could find paella.  They spoke to me but I was so thrown off because they weren't speaking Spanish.  Pretty sure they were speaking Italian and I couldn't help but just laugh because they were obviously trying to hang out with our group of girls and none of us could take them seriously.  So after I just pointed in a direction and said "paella, 5 min that way" they went back to their group.  Quite entertaining for us.

The boys hard at work

Their final product

Rando guys talking to us

We went in and out of the water a lot and were able to go out pretty far cause it was so calm and shallow.  It was annoying though, because every time we got out of the water and dried off our skin would be white from all the salt.  We hung out at the beach nearly the whole day and went to our favorite little pizza place before heading back home.  I got a pizza de jamon and it was delicious!  We headed back home after our little "snack" to get ready for the night.  We were all very excited because we were finally going to L'Umbracle night club.  It was a huge outdoor club with a club underground as well.  We had a few of our friends over to hangout before meeting wiht the rest of the group at the Cathedral as usual.  We met up with everyone and headed to a bar for a little because the club didn't open until 12.

Pizza de Jamon

After hanging out for a while we all grabbed taxis and headed to the club.  Normally the club is 15-20 euros to get in but one of our friend's home-stay sisters told her how to get all the group in for free!  I was a little sketched about the plan but we went with it and it actually worked.  The club was soooo cool, it was lit up with fun lights and had places to sit and hangout all throughout the gardens.  As you moved on you could head downstairs to the daytime parking lot which was turned into another dance club.  We went out with a bang as a group and headed home around 5 :)  We had to do the traditional Spaniard party night at least once of course.

Outside the club

The girls at the club

Creepyy