Today I woke up before everyone and hung out in the main area of the hostel and drank some tea and coffee, I also had some decent granola bars. We went shopping today and got some serious amounts of food, I decided that I want to make supper for our group and the new friends that we made... apparently supermarkets aren't open on sundays. I picked up a few bags of cheese tortelini and some spinach and ricotta tortelini also. We got some fresh baguettes and got out of there. When we got back we made some fairly impressive vegitarian sandwiches.
After we ate, Ryan, Brandice, Aram and I left in search of a festival at El Prat just a few minutes outside of the city. We had to take two trains and a bus to get there but it was totall worth it. When we arrived it was still a bit early before everything started, we saw a bunch of people rigging up a bunch of fireworks so we decided to hang around. We grabbed some beers and skated in the street until we joined a drum line/parade that lead us to the main party.
It was definitely worth waiting around for; we arrived just in time for a giant display of Spanish firecrackers which were set up on a giant jurassic-park-esque styled arch. Out of the arch came a bunch of people dressed up in dark hooded sweaters and bandanas hoisting pitchforks with spinning firecrackers mounted on the ends of them. It was alsmost creepy when a giant sculture of a rooster came out with about a dozen of the spinning firecrackers on it... definitely nothing like you would see in Canada. The firecrackers were going right off in the crowd, at one point the sparks from the giant rooster were shooting into Ryan, Brandice, Aram and I. The weirdest part about this whole demonstration of fireworks was that they kept replacing the burnt out fireworks with new ones... they just kept on going on through the city.
We came home, I put on some tunes.. and passed out. Tomorrow's supper should be great
slowly we unfurl
15 years ago
3 comments:
"Chef Andrew"
Firecrackers on pitchforks is always good. So is tortelini. Pots and pans are good too, eh? Say hi to your friends for us. Missing you and your love for food.
Hope that you had a great supper. Home made is always good.
You certainly have seen and been everywhere you are going to have lots to tell us when you come back to WPG
yes, I will have a lot to say...and so far it's only been a month
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