Madrid to Barcelona

After getting up early again and getting ready, we realize our mistake in ordering a taxi too early as our flight leaves a lot later than we think.
So off for another walk around the aRea where Madrid is just starting to wake up and shops are not yet open at 9. The crisp air starts to make me hungry and a small breakfast of tea, juice and sweetbread for €2.50 fills us up. We talk to this older man* a little old NYC man traveling alone who doesn't speak any Spanish and I'd say was close to 70* who has just come from barcelona. We offer him some Madrid places to go and do while he tells us about some places there. We say our goodbyes as it is time to get back to the hotel and check out.
A harrowing ride to the airport 25 minutes later and we are both left a little quesy.
Ryanair is our carriEr and we both check luggage with no charges.
The rest of the trip is pretty uneventful as my stomach is a little nauseous and her head is bothering her. A bus ride follows that will take is into Barcelona as we flew in from a town about an hour outside of it called gerona. From the bus station, we call the woman who is to meet is at our flat and a little coMedy ensues as my phone tells me I need to be patched through to an operator for help but the call does go through to her and I mistakenly think she is the operator and try to tell her I want to make a call to Spain and she says you are calling Spain and Did I rent a flat?
We get instructions on how to get there which requires a metro ride, lots of stairs which make me wish I had packed less and I did this time too.!
We land in the middle of chaos in the catalunyan plaza. There is some BIG football match between Barcelona and the Rangers. And the steets are packed with drunken loud tailgaters who are heading toward us as we try to navigate to the flat. A long wait for the woman to show leads to lots of people watching and we finally get in.
Both of us by now are ready for a nap and i decide to go get is some sandwiches and drinks that will tide is over until a later dinner. But naps get the best of us and it is 11:30 when we wake up. Plans for tomOrrow require early waking to get to the market so we call it a night. But the revelers are still going and I am wide awake as I type this as it is close to 1 am now.