Smells Like Blue Cheese

What better way to start the day than to head a block away from where we were staying and grab freshly baked pastries for breakfast? I submit there is no better way to start a morning! Jody in her infinite wisdom got a fruit cup/parfait while I got a crumbly apple crisp type thing....and even though we sat in the car to eat, i still managed to make a complete mess of myself....there was powered sugar all over my lap and im pretty sure the car rental agency is going to charge my credit card for all the vacuuming the car now requires. Honestly, a small family of rodents could probably live heartily for a solid year off the food between my seat and the center console!

First things first today, La Ramble...it's a long street that spans from the bay up about 8 blocks and consists of small shops selling flowers, jewelry, characture drawings, animals (birds, lizards, turtles etc), nicknacks and more...but the best part of the entire strip were

the performers who posed for extraordinary amounts of time. One such (pictured) was a gunslinging cowboy and at first I didn't even notice him had Jody not said anything. But after watching him, I noticed his eyes moved and that was it. While we st

ood there watching him, a little boy and his mother were taking pictures next to him...the boy touched

his shoes, poked his pants, and then tugged on his guns....his mother immediately stopped her son. After a few minutes of standing there and admiring the cowboy, the mother gave her son a few coins to place in the man's tin barrel... suddenly the statute sprung to life at the sound of the clanking coin striking the inside of the barrel...his quickly drew his pistols and shot off a few rounds (they were cap guns so there were a few popping noises) while at the same time shifti

ng poses...i have never EVER seen someone, man, woman nor child jump and scamper away as fast as that little boy did out of sheer terror!

We made our way through the crowds, past other performers (a caveman, Laurel and Hardy, a man and skeleton on a bicycle, an ape in a crib, and a knight) and into the narrows of the city. We walked down cobble stone streets weaving this way and that, came to intersections with

other narrow streets and each time, the other would choose which way to turn...the maze never seemed to end, around every corner just when we think we made it out, there would be a new alley to make our way through. But getting out wasn't the point as there was so much to see

while 'trapped'. Shops selling their goods, small restaurants, and even musical performers. After spending the day walking around we got in the car, turned on TOM and made our way to Sitges, a small costal town.