BARCA

Ok so I have to post a little bit about the football game. I dont think I could have picked a better game to go to, especially it being my first soccer experience. The entire city of Barcelona is out in force for each game and it was truely one of the cooler things to see. Everyone is on the streets the whole day in their jerseys walking around with ice chests full of cervesa. There are police everywhere dressed in all of their riot gear, just in case something goes wrong. There were a lot of people from Germany that traveled here specifically for this game, and they were all walking around doing their futbol chants. None of the Barca fans seemed to mind the German fans, and the most conflict I saw was a little bit of joking around between the two sides. I was hanging out with some German guys before the game learning all the Bayern songs and chants, and enjoying a couple of beers. Lots of the munich fans wear leiderhosen and a soccer jersey to the game, which I thought was pretty funny. I think I might want a pair now... Mom was right.

I got to Camp Nou, which is the stadium, pretty early. The stadium is the biggest in Europe and holds 98000 fans. What an experience in and of itself. I saw a huge crowed gathering so I went to see what was going on and there were about 20 police cars driving in the street. They would one by one block off the intersections so that they could make traffic only one way. Then off in the distance was a giant Bus, which was what all the players were riding to the game. Its incredible that they need a police escort like that just to get to the stadium.

The game started and I was sitting with a bunch of roudy Barca fans. They were all really nice and explained to me a lot of what they were saying and how to sing the songs and do the chants. Most of which arent even saying words just making noise.

I got to see Messi (the best player in the world) score 2 goals. Henry who used to be the best player in the world for a while also scored. The end result was 4-0 Barca which means that there were partys in the street the whole night. I went to bed at 6am and I could still hear the chanting and screaming from the streets when I rested my head on my pillow. Ive seen a lot of good art while in Europe and watching Barcelona play Munich ranks up there with the best of them. Definately worth the price of admission.

It was sunny today which means I got to relax on the beach all day. Lots of the girls go topless even though I dont think its a nude beach. Pretty sure Im going to be sunburned tomorrow, but hopefully Ill just get a nice tan. Barca is not as cheap as I thought it would be, so I think after Easter Ill go to some smaller coastal town, or maybe venture to Madrid to eat some roast succling pig.