The first night

After eating dinner at the hotel restaurant, Manny, Greg and I went out on the town with the Barca boys from Cali; Paul, Brian, Jose and Yossi. Those guys are crazy! We had a great time in the downtown area of the city. We found an Irish pub and watched the Villareal vs. Real Madrid game in the upstairs balcony. It was a lot of fun watching Real Madrid lose. It got crazy; spilling beers, Manny peeing on himself, tall urinals, slanted tiles....

We got hungry so me and Greg went next door to McDonald's of all places and ended up eating Mickey D's outside in the alley (they wouldn't let us back in the pub w/ food). Paul, Manny and Jose came out to score their Big Macs. They thought we went back to the states to get food. McDonalds was very popular in Spain.

After the game we went out walking the alleys and seeing all the night clubs. We had met up with Jammy, the local Penya director who showed us the downtown area. things don't really get started until very late here. People don't start showing up until 11/12 o'clock.

Couple of things I noticed about the city:

• the architecture was very beautiful but old and worn
  
• the streets and town seemed kind of dirty 
• meals are a lot smaller
• people walk more (don't see a lot of overweight people)
• people got some crazy hairdos (the mullet dreads seem to be very popular)

Great night. The Cali boys must have had more fun because they didn't get back home until 6 the next morning.