Unlike our previous morning, today we woke up early so we could have a full day at the beach. We headed straight to the hostel common room to gather the group for the beach. When we arrived half of our friends were still asleep and the other half were moving very slowly. After about an hour everybody was finally ready to go. We headed out on our first mission, to find a spanish specialty, churros con chocolate. We asked every restaurant we passed until we finally found churros con chocolate! To our surprise they gave us some churros with a mug of hot chocolate to dip them in. Delicious but strange.
After filling up on churros it was beach time! We joined the hundreds of other people on the beach and relaxed as tons of people husstled us about tattoes and massages. No gracias. The water was absolutely beautiful and we spent hours soaking in the sun.
After our bodies started turning red we left the beach for another visit to the Boqueria. We drank the most delicious fruit smoothies imaginable and bought more fresh fruit to make sandwhiches.
We packed dinner and sent out to hike Mount Juic to take in a great view of the city. We walked uphill for a little bit until we reached all these closed gates and "do not enter" signs. We came o the conclusion that it was under construction and took our pictures as needed. On our way out we found a majical staircase that we hadn't seen before. We went up and again were left in a dead end. We found this random pathway through the woods and since we expected a great hike decided to explore. After we got through all the brush we ended up in a main road with lots of people walking around and a restaurant up ahead. We walked around the beautiful garden and took pictures of things we thought could be the castle that we heard of. After eating our dinner and dicussing our great hiking skilss (since we barely broke a sweat) we re-looked at the map and realized we were not even a third of the way to the top of the mountain. Whoops.
We headed up, this time using the map, and ended up at the real castle! Bellisimo! We got there just as it was closing time, however, so we were only able to admire the beautiful views and outside of the castle. After a successful hike we headed back down the mountain and back to the hostel to meet up with the group.
The two boys from Brazil put on a show with their mini guitar and tam-tam, and we sang along in spanish, english and french. After a lot of singing we headed out to Chupitos for another celebration. This time we tried all different shooters, relying heavily on reccomendations from the bartenders. So many delicious ones, especially all those involving chocolate and pop rocks. It has been decided that a Chupitos USA coming soon. Get ready.
-J and C
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