4 November 2007 · Comment [5]
Picture explosion! Part one.
Okay, so it turns out putting over two hundred pictures in a single post is a terrible idea, so now they’re getting put into multiple entries even though it pains me to break up the glorious chain of reverse-chronologically-ordered pictures. But yes, now it won’t take three hours to load! Also, I’m in London now! Duncan gets home from work in a few hours and I am SO EXCITED. Yaay!
I don’t know if this is really a World of Warcraft reference because I’ve never actually played it, but I though David and Dad would appreciate it at any rate. She was at the anime convention yesterday and hers was the only costume that I really liked slash wasn’t terrified by (see below).
A rock garden! I feel just like I’m back in Japan! I didn’t want to say anything, but you can totally see the rake line on the left. How am I supposed to engage in rock garden relaxation techniques when I can totally see the rake line!
The anime convention! It was pretty neat to see everyone dressed up and obsessed with Japan and everything I guess. It felt like I was back in high school and definitely reinforced that the anime scene isn’t really my thing.
On the plus side, there was a girl dressed like a cat! How freaky!
When I was trying to find the convention center, I knew I was getting close when I started seeing tons of kids carrying around huge swords and crazy magic scythe things. I wonder if people fought over who in the group got to carry the huge magic sword. It seems to me like it would just be a pain in the buttocks to carry it around all day, but maybe the pride of carrying the huge magic sword lightens the burden. Also note how everyone in this group got together and dyed their hair the same shade of red just for this convention, obsessed much? Also, just outside the convention there were two kids trying to choreograph a fight between a huge magic triple-bladed scythe and a little tiny dagger and I wanted to tell them “You know why you’re having such a hard time making up a realistic fight? Because the kid with the seven-foot-tall scythe would just stand back and scythe the other kid and the fight would be over like that, fools.” But then I realized that I was getting way too into anime and I hadn’t even set foot inside the convention and it was so, so shameful.
A store in Girona called Callate la Boca! Which is like calling your store Shut Your Trap! Awesome.
Me in Girona sporting my lovely new orange sweatshirt that makes me look like a pumpkin.
The same picture but without my ugly mug. I’m a big fan of Girona and its charming charminess, which can be classified as both small-town and old-world. Neat!
Some steps in Girona. Yup. I would classify this charm as old-world, definitely.
More Gironan old-world charm. It’s a tunnely walkway, in case that wasn’t obvious.
The door to Girona’s cathedral, which is the widest Gothic cathedral in the worrrrld!
A street in Girona. Remember how I said there was a festival going on this weekend? Well there was, but if there were fire-runners running e’ery which way like I’d heard there would be, Rachana and I had to leave before they got going.
A restaurant called Bar Ra where we got dinner the other night that was pretty delicious but it’s popular so the servers are kind of uppity. I brought my own huge bottle of water to save plastic and they said I wasn’t allowed to drink it! Way to hate on the environment.
The Magic Fountain! Rachana and I finally made it there and it was sooo worth it. The guidebook says that they usually play classical music but sometimes they play ABBA! So I gotta go back now.
More Magic Fountain. Yes, that’s its real name, I’m not just being weird and calling everything magical again. I think this picture looks kind of like the Aurora Borealis and that is neat.
More of the magical magical magic fountain. Yaay, colors.
Fountain fountain fountain. And some people.
Some little, non-magic but still magical fountains next to the magic fountain.
Yup, it’s a fountain. The thing that makes it non-magical is that it doesn’t change colors and patterns in time with the music.
Back to the magic fountain! I just can’t get enough, apparently.
The National Museum of Catalonion Art. The actual name is in Catalán and I’m not even going to attempt to write it. Catalán makes my head hurt, nurr.
The street connecting the magic fountain to Plaça Espanya.
Some floating things in the water at the bottom of Las Ramblas. Maybe they’re crayfish trap floats? I don’t know. There are so many things in the world that I don’t know about, nur de dur dur.
La Sagrada Familia at night! Right before this was taken, I totally embarrassed myself in front of a stranger. We were both looking at how pretty La Sagrada Familia was and then we struck up a conversation and it turned out he was from Italy and we conversed in Spanish pretty well for like an hour and it was neat and then I suggested we exchange email addresses but then he smarmily said maybe he should get my phone number and I freaked out and was all like “Whoa now, back off, I have a boyfriend!” But then I realized that he had asked for my nombre, which any twelve-year-old who’s taken Spanish 1 would know means name and not number and he was just jokingly pointing out that we didn’t even know each others’ names after talking for an hour and I had freaked out and told him that I had a boyfriend. And I’d been able to converse pretty well in Spanish, but I’m nowhere near good enough to explain what a non-basic-Spanish-knowing spazzmo I am so I just kept digging myself in deeper and I know someday I’ll laugh about this but that day is not today.
Hoo, okay, it’s dinner time. Later, everyone!
Okay, back for another round of captioning! On a note that is unrelated to this picture, Rachana, Jovanna and I just went to a Spanish cooking class where they showed us how to make sangria, paella, gazpacho, and tomato bread, which I think is pa tomaquet in Catalán. It was neat and delicious and at one point we went out on the balcony overlooking Las Ramblas and saw a guy getting pickpokceted and then he threw his beer at the pickpocket and he and all his friends chased after the pickpocket but it looked like he was going to get away so that was kind of sad. But seriously, he shouldn’t have had his wallet in his back pocket on Las Ramblas, that was just pretty dumb. But anyway! This is La Sagrada Familia at dusk. Right before I embarrassed myself in front of that stranger, nur de dur dur.
And another one of La Sagrada Familia! Rachana and I actually went back there today and we went to the top and it was pretty! Pictures coming in approximately three trillion years. Also, when we were waiting in line, a group of Korean businesspeople started talking to us and offered us English teaching jobs with their company, so there’s always that if Google gives me the boot. And it’s only… twenty hours further away from England than New York. Well nur.
Okay, shoot, we told this guy at the cooking class that we’d meet him in a few minutes to go to a bar called The Forest of the Fairies that’s decorated like a whole forest with a RIVER and I am so excited and it is probably going to be awesome. More captions coming shortly. Later!
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This is perhaps the most amazing collection of pictures I have ever set eyes upon. I envy your many ventures.
— Jordan · Nov 4, 04:34 PM · #
dear sarah beth,
please pass this note to jovanna:
“dear jovanna,
you have long hair.
love, suzanne”
thank you. otherwise, i miss you. and i like your pictures. and i fell asleep that afternoon you called and slept through the phone ring. laaaAaaame. and i love you. Proof of love to follow immediately.
love,
suzanne
— Suzanne · Nov 4, 09:52 PM · #
I think my favorite moment is the series of close-ups of fruit followed by a sudden close up of octopus tentacles. I found it shocking and delightful. Knowing you, it was probably intentional. Awesome pictures, I’m jealous.
— Nick · Nov 4, 09:53 PM · #
it does indeed seem to be something from a online roleplaying game, although I would guess that it’s some random Asian mmorpg and not warcraft. I really liked the picture at first because I thought the chair behind her was a wheelchair and it was ironic or something.
— Unrelated David · Nov 7, 08:52 AM · #
Dear Suzanne,
No it isn’t.
Sincerely, Jovanna
Dear Sarah Beth,
You will find this highly ironic. Remember how we didn’t have hot water? A water mane broke in Vilassar so now we have no water at all. I want to cry. Check your email.
Sincerely,
Jovanna
— Jovanna · Nov 10, 03:14 AM · #