BARCELONA part 1.

As said by Aliza...

Shabbos was AMAZING!!! We went to shul Friday night and it was really nice. Everyone was really into the davening, they were dancing and singing for a while. We met a British girl who was with her husband on a one-year anniversary trip. (Too bad they don't live in London so we can't stay with them when we go!) We walked like 7 minutes to the Chabad people's house... there were literally 100 people in their small living room. The entire Jewish community of Barcelona eats dinner with them on Friday night. We sat with the British couple, this girl who is in Cornell getting her PHD in microbiology (freak), and this guy who lives here who owns a frozen yogurt store (called Tooti). He invited us to it, but hopefully it's Kosher! The food was really good - much better then last week - but we didn't really get a chance to speak to anyone else because there were just way too many people.. there were four Israeli boys traveling before going to the army, some French kids, an American family who we didn't speak to, and a young couple from LA. 

We slept late, which was great. The beds were incredible and got to shul just in time for Torah reading. There was a huge Kiddush after shul, which is their lunch, with potato kugel, salads, pita, cake and fruit. We knew that thing was going to be the case, so we brought deli and pita for later when we would be hungry.  

We sat with the Chabad Rebbitzen and the wife of the LA couple. We ended up speaking to them for about two hours about clothes, food, languages... the Rebbitzen is the coolest lady! (They've been here for 14 years and they only speak to their children in Hebrew. She is from France and he is from Mexico. The LA couple just got married 5 months ago and they're traveling Europe for their honeymoon for 6 weeks. They're moving to NY in January so hopefully we'll get together!) 

In the afternoon, we sat by the hotel's pool, napped, read, and took a walk.

We went back to the shul for havdalah and then went running around town (literally) because we just wanted coke zero and EVERYTHING was closed. We finally found coke and chips at a gas station - yes, we got jipped but it was well worth it!