Costa Brava Here We Come!

Hey Guys,

We left for our group excursion today. We drove first to Figueres and toured the Salvador Dalí museum. He rebuilt an old theater as a museum to his work in the 1950s. He was a talented man for sure, but an equally strange one. Lots of surrealism, naked body parts, beds, weird fetish stuff…not my thing at all. Mel and I stayed together the entire time, and actually spent the last hour resting on a bench in the center garden. Afterwards, we drove to some ancient ruins, one of a Greek city and one Roman. They were built in the 1^st century B.C., which was awesome to see. The only bad part was that we had a tour guide, and it took forever. I am sick to death of guided tours and historical sites, and after the 10^th explanation of the sistern of some ancient house, I wasn’t even pretending to be interested anymore. Then again, neither was anyone else in our group.

There were some interesting parts: we saw the public baths and public toilets in the Roman city. Men would sit naked on this long board with holes cut out, use the bathroom, and chat. They used to talk about whatever—business, relationships, politics, nothing was off-limits. They had slaves of course (they lived in the basements of the houses), and one would run back and forth to wipe them as men finished their business. If that isn’t disturbing enough, he would use the same sponge to clean everyone. That’s what I call a dirty job!

A water pipe for the air conditioning in our bus broke on the drive to Costa Brava, and water started pouring out of the nearest vent onto the girls sitting there. We had to drive with the emergency door popped out of the bus ceiling. I slept each time we got back on the bus, I just couldn’t seem to catch up. This bus was smaller, so I couldn’t have my own seat. I sat next to Clayton, so he entertained me during the short time I was awake. He wants to go cliff jumping here, which sounds fun. He claims if you do it wrong though, you end up with a very forceful enema. Don't know if I want to take that risk!