Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A weekend with Charline or How I got fat

On Thursday afternoon at about 10:32 am, I met my French friend Charline at the airport and escorted her back to my house for a weekend of sightseeing and overeating.

We walked down Las Ramblas and saw a number of "street performers," including this guy who is trying to fit in, but is obviously a dull-witted white person who ran out of money while backpacking through Europe and is trying to raise some funds in order to continue his "European adventure."

Charline was homesick so we skyped with Jen for a while and were impressed by the special effects on her camera.

3 tassles, 2 shoes.

Instead of taking pictures of myself, I did the next best thing, have someone else take pictures of me.

Ray-Ban ad+1.

Park Güell

We visited all the popular tourist destinations and made sure to make fun of the dumb Americans taking too many pictures/making fools of themselves while we did the same.

Montjuïc via the ski lift.

Char.

I prefer the view of the industrial port to that of the city.

Arc de Triomf(Parisian rip-off)

Char and I go to the movies.

One of my roommates(Judith), she's German.

We indulged in a number a culinary creations. (not to mention the number of baguettes we ate do to Charline being French, and baguettes being irresistible.)

We started off with something light/healthy.

Then I made some Chicken Tikka Masala with Basmati rice that turned out to be quite good.

Some mango, yogurt, and granola mixture that looks less appetising than it was.

Then Charline wanted to make cookies, so we made a batch of about 53.

I proceed to eat the cookie dough

Then my stomach hurt

Then I ate about half of the finished cookies, which resulted in more stomach aches.

And then Charline went back to Granada, and I was left wallowing in my 10 pounds of recently accrued excess fat.

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