I don't feel like dancing!

Last week brought with it hordes of Stanford students. Not just one or two, but twenty. Three of Sinsky's friends studying in Oxford came from Tuesday-Saturday, and the Paris program organized a trip for them to come to Barcelona as well. That means two of my former roomies, David (#2) and Lindsey, were in for the weekend. And after two weekends out of town, we were anxious to make a splash back into the notorious Barcelona nightlife.

Thursday night was slightly less than successful. Sinsky, his roommate from Stanford, Noah, Tara, Divya and I made dinner (which was incredible Mexican food), and attempted to go out to a dance club. We'd heard of a few, and tried one that had no cover. When they wouldn't let Dave in on account of his sandals, we walked to find another, and ended up at the Salsa Club. Not only were we the only non-locals here, but also the only non-professional internationally renowned salsa dancers. Every pair (and everyone had a pair) was dancing like it was a choreographed movie, and we just stood on the side as an awkward, odd-numbered group of dancing-challenged Caucasians.

Friday night was more successful however, and after a delicious dinner with the Oxford crowd and David (#3, the local), Lindsey and David (#2) met us in the born for some chupitos. Four rounds later, affectionately topped off with a fifth on the house, we piled into cabs with the famed Barcelona 2:30am destination: Razzmatazz. Razzmatazz is the largest club in Barcelona, with five dance floors each blasting different styles of music. We tore the house down, and danced the night away until the metro reopened at 5am. The evening was gloriously documented in photographs that will undoubtedly prevent all of us from ever achieving public office. Unbelievably, all nine of us somehow managed to reconvene and leave together.

They say (ok, we say) that clubs are only as fun as the group that you go with, so there will probably not be another venture out into the nocturnal scene of Barcelona nearly as fun. But hey, it was one heck of a night.