Barcelona's Nightlife & The Beauty of Getting Lost

I'll try to recall everything that happened yesterday, but no promises, everyone should know that my memory is awful and that I can't write down every story...
Last night as we (my housemate and I) went to go to a group meeting and tour of the gothic section of the city, we got very lost. So much so, that we were late and completely missed the tour. This wasn't a huge deal, so we decided to walk around the gothic section ourselves, and just explore for a few hours.

What fun would Spain be without protests?

Overall the gothic section is very beautiful, it's one of the older if not the oldest part of the city (I assume anyway) and it certainly shows. Every building is huge and majestic, the streets are tiny (there are no cars or vehicles of any sort there), and there are shops and tiny stores everywhere, dozens, if not hundreds of them in this small little district.
Afterwards we went to the waterfront and grabbed some food from some of the many "Beer and Ice Cream" Stands (I feel like these would do well in the US?) and sat in one of Barcelona's many parks. The city seems similar to Boston in that respect, there isn't immense amounts of vegetation on every corner, but there's certainly a fair amount with plenty of parks and grassy areas.

Outside of the store where Rihanna was.

Once we went back to our host's house, we then went out to try and find one of our friends, but between our technicaly difficulties with phones and the fact that there are merely more cafes and bars than anything else, we were not able to find out friend, and just ended up sitting down in a place that looked fairly decent. (Also, somewhere in here I'm fairly certain that we walked by the jewelry store that Rihanna was at, there were hundreds of people packed outside trying to look in.)

Street performers a-plenty.

It was there that we met some (VERY) inebriated Englishmen and found some other American College students. After staying for a couple hours, we then decided to set out for places unknown, which ended up in us finding a, seemingly random, concert. A few songs later we wandered around, until eventually arriving back at roughly 1AM. (The nightlife here usually doesn't end until roughly 4AM or later, the streets were still packed when we left.)

All in all, we saw quite a few very interesting things (didn't get many pictures though), met some interesting people (one man spoke 5 languages not including his native tongue, which is completely crazy in my opinion), and experienced Barcelona at night fo the first time.

Columbus wearing a Barcelona jersey, I've seen it all now.