don’t be a jerk

Got back from Barcelona on Sunday.
 
During the trip, my dad and I had this…”moment”. I’ll just leave it at that.
 
Anyhow, ever since Sunday I’ve been futilely trying to get my sleep cycle back on track. Here are some pics:
 

First picture on the roll!
 

When La Sagrada Familia Attacks!
 

In Las Ramblas, we randomly found the hostel that Hieu and I stayed at when we did the whole Europe backpacking thing five years ago.
 

For the two days that we visited Las Ramblas, we saw this outside the Aquarium. You can even see the little “Recycling Bin” icon in the bottom right. For 2 frickin days. I love Spain and Spanish people, but this is why they will never be a true world power. Any society that shuts down from 3pm to 9pm for a nap will never get it’s shit together enough to kick some ass. Seriously, guys, somebody wake up up and reboot the damn computer.
 

Barcelona has a cool aquarium. Whenever I travel, if there’s an aquarium in the area, I visit it. I like aquariums.
 

Take a long, good look. It’s going to be awhile before you see another picture where my sister’s making the face and I’m acting normal.
 
On that note -
 

I don’t really have a good explanation for this.
 

Nor for this.
 

Ditto.
 

This is a view from some palace art museum. The Olympic Stadium is right behind it.
 

My dad acting weird.
 

My dad deciding that I deserve a little weird as well.
 
On that note -
 
My dad has a very small, but very nice Casio digital camera, and since we packed light for the trip, we only used that camera. When we left the camera with my dad, this is what he would take pictures of:
 

Cats….
 

…other cats…
 

…and windows.
 
It wasn’t long before we took the camera away from him. Every once in awhile he’d get fussy about it, but we’d just give him a cardboard box or something to play with and he’d usually get distracted with that and settle down.
 
Anyhow, continuing -
 

I’m a unicorn.
 

That’s the Olympic Stadium behind us. That’s also me getting sick of taking pictures.
 

Amy was starting to feel the same way.
 

Wanna-be art student photo #1
 

This is from the main cathedral in Valencia. They claim that this is the actual Holy Grail -
 

- I call bullshit…But then again, my dad did drink from some cup that was next to it, and then he turned into dust. And then me and Amy said, “You chose poorly!” And then we laughed. We laughed so hard because we’re clever.
 

This is not a posed shot. My dad was actually doing this and we snuck this photo of him.
 
You know, you may notice that I don’t include many pictures of my mom here. That’s because my mom is boring - mainly because she is intelligent and well-behaved. My dad, however, is a big-headed mongol. We took lots of pictures of him.
 
Continuing…
 

Except for old town, Valencia pretty much looks like Detroit in most cases, but it has an even better aquarium than Barcelona…
 

…and in this aquarium, what does Amy see…?
 

Flying fish! These things are thoroughly creepy. They look part fish, part locust, part alien.
 

Moments after this picture was taken, this seal slammed into my sister’s head.
 

They had Beluga whales. This baby Beluga bonded with my sister. Then it also slammed into her head.
 

Wanna-beart student photo #2. The Mall. Everyone smokes indoors in Spain so you can always see rays of light near windows.
 

Wanna-be art student photo #3. The train station in Valencia.
 

Last picture on the roll!