In mid-east restaurant again, shwarma again for first time.  Turned on fan myself this time.

• Great day in Barcelona.  Last but met Langdon + Jessica (upstate NY couple, will still be in town), Leelah + Darci (2 girls from Anaheim, CA).  Talked long time about out trips, etc.
  
• Today, hung out w/ Leelah + Darci all day.  They had a plan, I joined them.  Churches, Sagrada Familia, park, drink, eat.
  
  Sagrada Familia Church
  
  Isn't that HOT?
  
  The modern facade of Sagrada Familia
  
  Modern Jesus
  
  Modern Stained Glass
  
  The Gothic Facade of Sagrada Familia
  
  Lower detail, same facade
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Pictures from Gaudi's Park:
  
  That's right. THE Barcelona Dragon, the one the NFL Europe team's named after. He's my bitch.
  
  
  A couple buildings in the park.  Clearly, Gaudi was reincarnated as Dr. Seuss.
  
  open area in the park
  
  Leelah loves the column.  LOVES it.
  
  More park. 
  
  Above the columns
  
  More open park area.  Very Wizard of Oz.
  
  
  
  
• At spanish rest,(aurant) 12 euro/person, 3 courses + sangria/not especially good, but great cream+burnt yolk cake.  lots of fun, C+F, (illegible).  Went Got sweet Sagrada Familia poster,  Barcelona Dragon figure. 
  
  Talk of JC, Arc d'Triumf.  Cool pictures.  Ramblas, birds, water, Sunny D.  It's 10:08 now, their overnight Bern or Basel leaves at 10:38, trying to not be late.  C+F, made fun of Darci's low cut shirt (everyone's nice to me!  that's because of that low cut shirt).  Leelah laughed, "thanks for saying that."  They've seen NO movies, Pulp Fiction, others.  XNS.  Also went to Gaudi's house.  Beautiful.  Audio tour, sweet architecture.  Don't know where I'll go tomorrow, maybe beach.  have plenty of 10 train pass ticket left.  Talk of what needed in life mate.  #1 for both of them was love God w/all your heart.  Leel long talk to Leelah on the topic, she said I'm the most open person she's ever talked to on the subject.  Up the (airy mountain, down the rushing glen.  We daren't go hunting. . .for fear of little men. . .excuse my random Willy Wonka tinker reference. . .back to the journal. . .up the)  narrow dark stairs of Sagrada Familia, shitting myself as always, but nice to have people to laugh at me.  Long "stairs that never end" on way down.  Silly poses at Arc D'Triumf.
  

Arc

Gelato, strawberry excellent.  Church, nice stained glass.



They both lost a friend on autobahn last yera, and every church Darci goes to she lights a candle for her/him?  she was sniffling, crying.  Shafts of light shot in through open section of the stained glass window into a few of the pews, I sat in it.  Drinking Limon fanta now, simmilar to squirt, less bite.  Shwarma was good, crispy fries.  bought + smoked a small cuban Cohiba today, Leelah contributed, smoked some.  she also bought me water, a shot, very generous.

Left to right: Darci, me, Leelah

I helped Darci, bag was heavi, I offered to carry, she refused politely, I left offer on table until she needed to rest her back.  In Gaudi's house, was a guest book.  wrote

Marc Kaufman
This book is now priceless.
you're welcome.
perhaps a drawing of homer simpson too, not sure.

Gaudi's (repeatedly spelled it Guardi at this time) househad blue tile in center shaft incresing in porcelain 3-D blueness as height increased. 



There were viewing panes which made it look like underwater, excellent picture.



Sweet hologram of Gaudi welcoming visitors, amazing surprise.

(this hologram would actually wave at you as you walked by, and a message saying "Bienvenido (welcome) would show as well.)

And some other pictures of Gaudi's house:



A random ceiling sculpture inside the house



Barcelona's such a cool city.  Think I'll read tonight.

    When the Tweedle Beatles battle
    with the paddles in a puddle
    in a bottle on a poodle
    and the poodle's eating noodles. . .

Tested my comedy on Darci + Leelah last nt, good, receptive, open, suggestive, interactive audience.

C+F: reaced onto Darci's bag to look at sanitizer stuff, she was like, "huh! didn't know what you were doing there."  "Sorry, didn't do what you wanted me to do."  (I don't quite remember what made this funny, but I think the bag was probably under her bed while she lay on it.  I think I was suggesting she was hoping I was reaching for her.  They're not all gems, folks.)

• Couple hours later, I just got in bed. . .*knock**knock*. . .they were back!  they misread 20:38 as 10:38 pm, not 8:38, missed train (fail to mention, they left some bags in a taxi).  The were distraught, I tried to help, got a cabbie to give them a # for lost + found, offered to get them dinner (believe they lost wallet, too), back to room.  Leelah lost toiletrie bag, too, had that stuff contact solution, $300 glasses, mother's ring mother didn't know she had borrowed.  oops.  "cute earrings," too.  Snacks for them, I MUST not miss train to Paris tomorrow.
  
  Darci and Leelah after missing train.  Darci looks especially ruined, doesn't she?
  

• Langdon + Jessica got back, good mood.  We find out they had absynthe, were giggly.  I TORE THEM UP w/ joke.  she said "We really haven't been hallucinating."  I said, to Leelah, as if I were Jessica, "You ARE an octopus, right?"  they couldn't stop laughing.  Also she Jessica had a cough, I offered advil, leelah gave halls.  Jessica: You're just helping because I'm coughing all loud."  me, "well we sure as hell don't CARE about you."  all laughing. 
  
  
• Today, to go to beach w/ Langdon, (awake), jJessica (asleep).  it's maybe 10 am (10:25)
  
• Leelah + Darci gone, got alternate trains.