30 by 30 Final Count

The final count, after dinner and a Barcelona club, is 30.5.

The dinner we had was excellent and the perfect way to celebrate. Everything was excellent.

After dinner we headed to a club that was recommended to us by Hannika, the English girl we met previously. Jamboree Jazz was the name and there were 2 levels. Level 1: smoke-free underground level with hip-hop music. Level 2: Above ground that played 80's music but also similar to a smoke-filled room. I got toto hear Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" before we had to run downstairs to catch our breath and hope permanent damage hadn't been done by all the cigarettes we probably ended up smoking 2nd hand. We didn't recognize much of the music and were pretty tired so we headed back to our loft. It was a good evening though and great that we had a chance to check out the Barcelona scene.

We are now in Paris but we didn't arrive here without incident. On the shuttle at the Paris airport, we boarded with our bags in tow (they have gotten heavier as the trip has gone on) to catch the train. A Chinese man boarded the shuttle and kept looking at Sandra. Finally, he asked her if she spoke Chinese. She answered "Si," naturally, which probably gave him confidence since saying "yes" in Spanish indicates Chinese language skills. Anyway, she turned out to be a life-saver for the guy who was in France visiting his daughter and had boarded the wrong shuttle. Basically, he had a train to catch within about 20 minutes and was going the wrong direction. We played a mini-version of "The Amazing Race" with Sandra as the clear leader of the team and got him to the right train station. He missed the train by minutes but had a ticket booked on the next train in no time. Thanks to Sandra, he will make it to see his daughter. Otherwise, he may have been stuck on the Paris shuttle system through the weekend.

Our room at our hotel is interesting. We are on the top floor which would be cool if two entire walls of our room were not slanted to the same angle as the roof of the building! The toilet requires that one lean at an angle to sit down. The flat-screen TV is at an angle that practically requires a person to be on the floor or laying down to watch it. We are moving my bed because if I turn at all in my sleep, I will be injured for sure. If I sat up quickly in the middle of the night, I would have a concussion.

Anyway, I am out of time online so must end abruptly.