you're not going to get your patatas bravas.....!!!!!!!!!

This past wednesday, Barcelona won their third and most important championship of the year, the champions league!!! They played against the awful, dirty, and SMELLY Manchestur United in Rome (fair territory). There was a group of 10 of us who went to watch it together, and LUCKILY, about an hour before the game, we found a great little bar that had room for us right in front of a hi-def TV!! It was so fun watching it there, although there were was one little problem. We all ordered our "watching the game" beers, which are mandatory. (not by the restaurant, but because you're watching the game. And some of us were hungry (me included, obviously) so we ordered some patatas bravas, tortilla espanola, etc etc. These tapas are very easy and very accesible anywhere in barcelona so we didn't think there'd be a problem, but an hour after ordering them we still hadn't gotten anything. Now, service in Spain is SLOW, but an hour later is definitely a fair time period to say something. So I go up to the server, and I ask him (in perfect spanish because i had practiced silently in my head 10,000 times before i went up there) where are food is and he said, "oh, you're not going to get your patatas bravas, our cook decided he wants to watch the game and he's not making any orders". And he was 100% serious. OH ESPANA!!!!

The game was great though!!! We won 2-0, and there were a lot of hotties (above) to watch. That guy specifically is Xavi (pronounced Cha-vee) and he's the love of my life. He's also one of my "go to"jokes here in Barcelona. Sense of humor gets lost in translation very easily, but I always tell people that I'm dating Xavi from the FC Barcelona team and they laugh instantaneously. I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that they laugh so fast. :)

Miss everyone!! Yesterday was my 3 week countdown...now its 2 weeks 6 days!!
xoxo
jess