barcelona!

first off just wanted say - thanks for all the messaging and calling to check up on us. We are doing fine. it is very weird that we were on all these trains the day before. it´s interesting how londoners are reacting to this terrorism vs. new yorkers - there is a stress on remaining calm and civilized in london. more so than in theUS. but my favorite british headline was "BASTARDS". I met up with one of my college buddies who now lives in London and he was able to take us to the airport (so we stayed away from public transportation). We are in barcelona now and are having a great time. Some how we were upgraded to the ¨la torreta¨ suite which means mini tower that resides on top of the hotel. it is amazing b/c it has 360 views of barcelona. I wish this blogger thing worked better b/c i posted pics but they aren´t showing up and the formatting is horrible when its published. the people here are so nice and they have so much night time energy. we met up with some locals here for dinner at 11pm and didn´t get done until 1:30 or so. the food was amazing and no tip is required! that is definitely the best part (i believe in tipping when service is great not when it is mandatory)...then we went to a few different clubs. the indian movie star thing didn´t work here - i am not as convincing in broken spanglish plus the locals i was with were laughing at my attempt to get in. hope things in the labs are good..i heard they raised the alert for trains there too. i also heard acn stock went up 10%! tarko - i saw a silver dollar guy here that will blow away the silver dollar guy in chicago...they don´t mess around here...i will post pics when i can...