+ Wake up on time for the walking tour + Grab some fruit breakfast at the market, More smoothies! + The bad map on the walking tour brochure took us to the wrong street, so we made it to the correct place just to catch them at the corner of the street where she was explaining her tour + Walked around the Gothic quarter, found out where Columbus came to talk to Isabel and Ferdinand, where he might have gotten his shoes, and where Gaudi liked to go to church + Learned about some of the important sites of the Spanish civil war, revolts against the church against sending more citizens out to fight for colonies, saw some Roman ruins under the city, and sights of Moorish buildings. Also saw where Patron Saint Eulaliaa was thrown into a barrel by the Romans + Amy note: Did Brian Jacques get the Badger war cry from this saint? (EULALIAAAAA!!) + The tour guide took us back to the Traveler’s bar for free drinks afterwards + Everyone in the group sat at a big table + Amy felt REALLY awkward and, try as she might, couldn’t make conversation with anyone at the table… Maybe because everyone just kept talking about going to the pub crawl that night… Or maybe the fact that two of them were still in high school. Amy felt like a mom! Especially when she accidentally spilled coke while toasting that splashed on one of the high school kid’s camera and she immediately took out a tissue. + Amy looked like she was in pain, so Brian quickly finished his drink and we left + walked around looking for lunch, wound up eating a shawarma sandwich for 3.5 euro (whatever shawarma is, it was good!) + walked over to shopping mall to get top up card for cell phone, Success! The first few times we tried, it didn’t give the option of using a Spanish Vodafone top up, so we were very confused, but after a few tries, it decided to gift us with option 4 + Walked to Casa de Mila, toured the Gaudi museum, the roof top, and the mock apartment. Very nice! + Took the metro back to place de Catalunya to eat at good old Subway. Brian had another Magnum craving and tried to use their Magnum vending machine, but didn’t work + walked back to Hotel to use the interet, along the way, saw a store selling Magnum, Brian bought a Magnum Maya Mystica and Amy bought a Magnum Sandwich (Offical name! But the Catalan version was much longer) + Used internet and then got ready for the concert! Brian had been really excited about this alllll day + We went to listen to the Royal Philharmonic of London play Rachmaninoff and Dvorak at the Palau de Musica de Catalana. Yeah. We’re fancy. + The concert crowd was kind of noisy, but you could tell they were trying to be nice. They saved all their coughing for the breaks in between pieces. Each time the orchestra stopped, there was a roar of coughing. + Amy really enjoyed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number 2 + Brian took lots of stealth pictures becuase no photos were allowed + During intermission, most people had gone out for a break, but a funny old man came in suddenly and had a ticket for a seat that was occupied before intermission. He struck up conversation with us, saying that he was so entranced by the building that he was lingering around and some nice lady saw him and his wife with their ears to the door trying to listen to Rachmaninoff (he said it was the most romantic Rachmaninoff he had ever heard) and gave him the last two tickets for the concert. He was so happy he kissed her! + He was from Buffalo New York and he seemed really into architecture. He talked about how when he was in Mexico, he saw the same Dvorak symphony and the tympani player flipped his baton in the air. Brian got excited about this. Then, the group of people who were sitting in the row before intermission came back and they told him to leave, despite his ticket. They wouldn’t even let him make his case and just kept shooing him away! What made Amy really irked was how they had five seats between their four people and wouldn’t even give a seat to an old man. Instead, they used it to put their coats. They claimed that they had bought five tickets and one of their party was ill and couldn’t make it, but man, common courtesy! Okay, enough of Amy rampage. + Brian and Amy officially dubbed these people Grump Buckets + Admired the skylight after the concert and then left to go back to hotel +