You're Just too Good to be True, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You...

Since I had a crappy day yesterday, I had to make it up today by following through with all the plans I had.  Woke up feeling good and went down to the metro station to buy my student metro/bus pass--3 months unlimited for 172 euro. Meh.  I'm going to have to take public transportation everyday to get my money's worth haha.  I won't mind though because their buses are ridiculously clean and it has air conditioning.  The metro is the same as any other metros.  Clean in some places, dirty in others, sometimes smelly with all the people cramped up against each other, sometimes it's nice because there's not a lot of people on.  After getting the passes, Vicky and I hopped on the funicular, which is this train thing that takes us partially up the mountains of Montjuic (the area where we live in).  We get off and buy our tickets to get on the teleferic, which is this sky swing thing that takes you all the way up the mountain and gives you amazing views of the entire city.  We decide to get off at the very top, called Castell de Montjuic where there's this huge castle you can go on top of and take all the pictures of the city that you want.  This is where I went crazy with my camera because the views were breathtaking.  While up there, we met an old Spanish couple and they asked us where we were from and what we were doing in Barca, so Vicky answered them because I'm still trying to learn Spanish =/  They told us they were going to New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Jamaica sometime this month with their daughter.  God I hope I can do that much travelling when I retire.  I think I'm going to start saving for that right after I get back from this whole experience.  Then we went up to the top of the castle to take some more photos, and were there for almost 2 hours because the weather was perfect today and everything was just so beautiful.  The pictures I posted on Facebook don't do it any justice.  You have to be here to experience it for yourself.
Then we went a little down the mountain to Placa de la Sardana where there's this big oasis with palm trees surrounding it and it reminded me and Vicky of San Diego =( and =) haha.  We saw this huuuge red insect that looked like a dragonfly or mosquito, we don't even know.  And while we were up at the castle, we also saw this huuge fly and huuge ants.  Every insect here is like twice or three times the size of what we normally see back home.  Even the pigeons here are huuge.  Guess it's because they're well fed?
Vicky and I were lucky to get our own teleferic on the way down the mountain because on the way up, there were 3 other people with us.  So since we were having such a wonderful day, we decided to sing Franki Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," dedicated to Barca, all the way down back to the funicular.  I'm still debating whether I should post up that video because I did record it, but it's just too embarrassing.  So once we got on the funicular, I noticed a group of little hoodlums, probably in their teens.  They all were rocking dreads, baggy clothing, piercings and tattoos and looked just a weeee bit intimidating haha.
I forgot to mention something yesterday in my blog post.  So here in Barcelona, I guess everyone is really into sustainability, saving the Earth, going green, whatever you want to call it.  The people here are hard core into this stuff.  Vicky and I have to separate all our trash in 5 different trashcans in our flat because they have 5 different bins where you can throw away your stuff in.  Yellow bins are for plastics, cans, cartons, tetrapaks; Green bins are for glass containers and bottles; Brown bins are for organics like meat, seafood, nuts, leftover food; Grey bins are household waste; Blue bins is for paper or cardboard.  Crazyyy right??  So after we dump all our trash out of our plastic bags, we have to throw the plastic bags into the yellow bin because we can't just throw the entire bag in a certain bin.
Vicky and I have been at home all evening watching t.v. and relaxing from our fun-filled day.  We only have about 10 channels, so we've been watching a bunch of random stuff, and we noticed that the Spanish here don't care about showing nudity on t.v.  I've never seen so many bare naked asses on t.v. in my life, but I can get used to it I guess haha.
Don't exactly know what we're going to do/see tomorrow, but since we finally got our metro/bus passes, we can pretty much go wherever the heck we want!  But we're probably not going to do much because we've been keeping a record of how much we've spent each day since we got here, and today has been the highest with 396.72 euro, which is about $563 -____-  We're going to go broke, so, I'm gonna go to bed now and not have to think about it!