Day one Spring Break 09! Barcelona, Spain

We left on a Friday. When we were at the airport the airline told us they wouldn't be able to put the luggage on the plane because it was so windy outside. The plane was full and if they put the luggage on they wouldn't be able to take off. So once we boarded the plane it was already rocking back and forth as if we were on water. Once the plane took off, I thought I was going to die. It was the most terrifying plane ride of my life. I was gripping the seat, my palms were sweating and I just closed my eyes. I thought I was going to throw up. The plane felt like the hollywood tower of terror ride in disney mgm studies it was up and down un and down.....terrifying. Once we got above the clouds it was fine and I fell asleep. Barcelona is only a 2 hour plane ride from Florence. Once we got to florence my roomate Sarahs father had arranged a driver to pick us up and bring us to the apt we had rented for the week. We got to the apt dropped off our stuff and instantly went on a search for food. We ended up going to this place called Friss a smoothie place that had food. I got a pizza that looked like a gell art candle.. It made me sick later on. After food we went to Starbucks (because we do not have them in florence) we sat in the park and drank those bad boys down. Afterwards we went home took naps and got ready to go out. When it was time to go out we hailed a cab and told the cab driver to take us to La Rambalas ...a major street in Barcelona that has stores, bars and restaurants. We had no idea where we were going.. the cab driver took us to a marina and when we got out of the cab this guy from a restaurant was like heyyy come inside and eat.. so we did but we had no idea what was going on. We later realized that the driver dropped us off about ten min from where we wanted to be and that she was probaly paid by the restaurant to drop us off there. After dinner we walked to La Rambalas and met up with some friends from school that were also on spring break we went to this bar called cheers and drank there for the rest of the night.