Sunday, when the REAL Carnaval begins!

On Sunday morning we got up and made ourselves really productive so we could go to Sitges again that night for the parade. Megan studied for her midterm and I got some things done that I had been putting off. We decided we would be FCBarcelona futbol players, and we looked good! We also painted our faces again, as well, to be fun. We left the dorm around 7pm and were in Sitges by 8ish. While in the metro we were the only ones looking Carnivalish, but by the time we got to the train station, we saw many more people in costume! We actually got seats by each other on the train ride (amazing). When we got to Sitges, we went to the center of town (Megan got another muffin) and saw where the parade would start, and then followed the route out to the beach front. We stood in line for some Pans sandwiches, then took them to a good spot on the parade route. We soon decided the spot would not be good because people could push in front of us, so we walked down the sidewalk till we found openings right at the barrier and got ourselves a place there (while probably squeezing people to the right and left to us, but oh well). The parade took forever to get down to the street we were on but around 9:45 we finally saw it (it started at 9). It was the slowest, and most awesome parade I have seen in my life, haha. The first float was our favorite from the past weekend and the red-costumed men danced with us (through the barrier) and took pictures! Throughout the course of the parade, people from almost every float came over to take pictures or atleast commented excitedly at our FCB jerseys; they loved them! Either that, or they would mention RealMadrid or Espanol, two rival teams. When that happened, we would boo them or just chant in their faces. We had some indian girls bow to us, and a few girls from another float started up the Catalan anthem for the team, which we knew some of. We were very popular that night, and loved every moment of it! My favorite floats were the first one, and then the 80s themed one, where we had lots of attention from some adorable guys, and the Chiquita Banana themed one as well. Our cameras were used well; Megan's died, and mine died at the end of the night after going through two pairs of batteries! Every once in a while we thought the parade might be over, but then another float would come around the corner. At about 12:30am, we were tired of being behind the barrier, and wanted to go exploring, so we cut through the street to the other side and made our way down till we could see down the street the floats were coming from. We thought about staying, but then just decided to go up that street where there were no barriers. On the way, we came across some scantily clad men who wanted us to stretch our legs on a wall with them since we were in sports costumes, and then began worshiping us! It was hilarious. Megan was lifted up into a rugby position (we would have never known except that we experienced a game before) and I was lifted up at one point as well. We went over to the street where the parade was coming from and the boys all sneaked through the barrier of policemen. We were stuck to the side and watched a few more floats before Megan convinced me to run through. And we did! The parade became ten times as fun when there was no barrier, because we just danced in the streets with the paraders, or on the sidewalks with other costumed people!

To be continued... (I got tired of typing. Go visit Megan's blog for ALL the details, haha)