Barcelona!

We are in Barcelona! It was all in all a really smooth day of traveling. We took a train to Paris at 1:00, then took the RER to CD airport. We boarded right away and I slept most the way to Barcelona. We arrived at 8:00 and that's where some stress set in. Our couch surfer host hadn't given us very good directions to her house, in fact, all we really had that we understood was her address. She was also flying in an hour after us from Moscow (she's Russian) so we were going to wait for her at her baggage claim. But then we got a message from her saying to just meet her at her house. Well we had no idea how to get there and after asking three different people in the airport for help and getting three different answers, we decided to catch the bus over to the other terminal where she would be arriving. This was a good plan until the bus literally took ten minutes to get to the other terminal. By that time her plane had already landed and we waited for her and waited but we didn't see her so we assumed she left. We then discovered that neither of our French phones worked in Spain and we weren't receiving any calls from her. After trying for ages to figure out how to work the pay phones, we finally got ahold of her. However, the phones charged basically 1 Euro for 30 seconds of talking. Then it just straight ate some of my money. Ten Euro later and still no concrete directions on how to get to her house, we just decided to take a cab. First time in a taxi! It was more expensive than the bus and metro would have been, but we didn't want to risk being lost in Barcelona on our first night at 11pm with no way of communicating with our host. It really wasn't that bad though. But our host is AMAZING. She's this adorable Russian woman in her late 20's who's working and taking night courses. She gave us water and gezpacho  and we sat around and talked about everything from her work to her exboyfriend to her grandma who stuck chocolate and garlic in her suitcase because she's convinced that they don't have anything in Spain. haha cutie. Also, her mom works for a cosmetic company, so we got to go through all her samples. precious. Sightseeing starts and ends tomorrow it seems. Since this weekend is Good Friday to Easter, everything will be closed all weekend. Hence that puts a damper on actually visiting Barcelona, but I'm not really worried. Super sleepy though...