and now for a quick actual post

i'm not sure where i left off but i know that i havent talked about the last bit of paris or of barcelona yet. lisa and i had a busy last couple of days in paris and saw musee de louvre and d'orsay, and spoke canadian french to some skeptical parisians. all in all it was a fun time. And, more importantly, we bought mini speakers for the ipod so we now have music!!
one of the last nights in paris we went out with dave to a very random and rogue little bar and drank til it closed and then took a taxi home. it was fun, but then we slept in the next day, because thats what we do.

we managed to get ourselves to the airport the day after and took off to barcelona on vueling airlines, which were very impressive. we are flying to mallorca and back with them too, leaving tomorrow.

barcelona is awesome. if stockholm was warm it might be better than barcelona... but its not. there is city and beach and palm trees and wonderful things everywhere! i think that spain was designed for adolescents from around the world. everything is closed until like 10 in the morning, lunch is late and long, dinner is not until 9 or 10 and everyone stays up late because theres nothing to do the next morning until 10. its great!

today we strolled around at a leisurely pace and did some shopping and lisa got her hair done, in spanish, which was a fun adventure for her. she looks great though, dont worry anyone. although, if she didnt theres not much we could do. this is the first place where most people dont speak english and we dont speak their language, so we are in prety deep. but as long as we stick to fairly touristly places, my 'resort spanish' (quattro cervezas senor, por favor!!) and lisa's one term of spanish should get us by.

we also saw some of gaudi's crazy architecture today which was pretty cool to stare at in real life. this evening we might go to the beach before dinner. i am excited to swim and can't believe i havent gone yet.

tomorrow we are going to get up early and go to the bookstore and get harry potter and the deathly hallows and we are going to read it until we are done! we are way too obsessed...

bye bye!
simon