Betwixt the Best of Barcelona

Some fun things that happened these past 3 days:
1) Got to try Tapas (Spanish appetizers) for the first time
2) Have gotten to eat red meats without getting sick!
3) Tried some new types of wines I never knew existed
4) Edu took me to the nicest beach I've ever been to in my life
5) Ate genuine seafood paella per chef Edu
6) In said paella I tried clams and muscles for the first time (loved them)
7) Getting better at mastering the metro by myself
8) Drinking supreme Spanish coffee
9) Ate lunch with and pick the brains of 6 cool people who have walked the Camino de Santiago (five of which just finished this past week)
9) Walked around Barcelona all day with 3 of the 6 cool people
10) Saw the famous aristocratic home, Casa Batlló, designed by eccentric arquitect Antoni Gaudí
11) I'm in Barcelona!

Some funny things that happened these past 3 days:
1) Got winked at by a market clerk while he wrang up my maxi-pads
2) Bought a flip phone (you'll love it, Mom, and it'll be yours later)
3) Banged my thigh on the turnstile in front of several empathetic metro goers
4) Found  a Oaxacan restaurant in Spain
5) Lichita (aka Alicia) secretely opened up her own apparel and accessories shop and hired Pakistanis to manage it
6) When I was trying to be considerate and wash the dishes, the soap said "Nuh uh"
7) Writing this as I overhear the neighbors having some kinds of booze-breath, hammered arguments upstairs
8) Only been here 3 days, but it feels like it's been 3 weeks