Greetings from Barcelona!
What's happenin everybody? first of all is like to say while being touristy' Barcelona is amazing! Even yesterday when I was getting off the plane being still nine hours behind I still felt it. The thing that struck me most was the strange blend of very old and very rich. Its a little Strange but I'm getting ahead of myself.

First 12 hours on anything is too long, especially a plane. While my first flight to Atlanta wasn't bad I got stuck next to two siblings who fought the entirety of the trip. Three hours of that though tolerable. I dealt with it, figured it was karma for all the times I fought with my little sister annoying everyone around me. The next nine hours of plane though I don't think I'd ever been more antsy/tired/exhausted in my life! I might have gotten more sleep if I could breath through my nose somewhat, but whatever I lived.

So immediately getting off the plane I began to realize how rusty my Spanish was. As soon as I told the taxi driver where my hostel was he had no idea what I was talking about so I told him LA rambla being the only spot I knew of close to the hostel (which later of course I figured out was a 10 minute walk from there). Finally after about 20 minutes of walking wit my enormous back pack and being extremely hey lagged with the use of illegal
 WiFi tapping I found the place.  Finally being able to check in... only to be told that I would need to wait until one to get in to the room. So I locked my back pack up in there closet they had there and just wandered till I got close to he docks and just hung out there checking out the (enormous) yachts. That was the only down point so far.

So as of today I'm wide eyed and bushy tailed.  So far I've just ate read, drank wine, and sat on the beach... nbd. Navigation is fairly easy as well. Unless you have a car walking is fairly easy.  While basically having no street signs you go by landmarks which is easy since there are so many.  Honestly not too sure what to see first. While the statue of Christopher Columbus boggled but figured since its Europe he's more of an icon. everything about it is pretty amazing there's almost too much to talk about. I haven't even touched hostel life but I figured id just ,mention the cool shit and leave the boring stuff for later. (Not to mention the mostly topless beaches).  I honestly could stay here forever, hard to believe this is only just a stop before I depart to other places. Well that's enough of that, until my next post salud!/cheers.