Thieves stole two of our suitcases - Jorge's and our carry on - at the metro station after we'd just arrived in downtown Barca. Jorge lost everything - all of his clothes, toiletries, his Kindle, the nice Bose headphones, and sadly his Seattle Sounders jersey and his classic FC Barcelona jersey; Ally lost her laptop, and I lost all of my medicines. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky, as other people we saw at the police precinct were assaulted during thefts; we just had the suitcases grabbed while we were buying train tickets.
We had been so careful and watchful of our stuff throughout the trip, but it just took a couple seconds for them to grab the suitcases. We were fortunate that they didn't get our credit cards, passports, phones, which we carried on us. And thanks to a last second decision as our plane was landing, Jorge's iPad went into my backpack instead of back into the carry on, so we still had it. But we lost all of our chargers and voltage adaptors.
Once we got situated at our apartment, we started the process of changing passwords, shutting down accounts, and notifying our insurance agent.
The neighborhood pharmacist felt sorry for us, and refilled my prescriptions without requiring any paperwork from my doctor, which would have taken a couple days to get while dealing with the time difference.
Jorge got another pair of pants and a shirt, some socks and underwear. This wasn't an easy as you might think, as the big department store was very high-end and only carried name brands - even in underwear! We were having no luck finding any waist sizes under 42, and wondered if we had stumbled into a big and tall section...but then we figured out the sizes were in centimeters and not inches...so we'd been looking at the right sizes all along.
There was a humongous Apple store in the downtown area, so we were able to get a charger and a photo uploader for the iPad so we could keep blogging.
We weren't feeling great about Barca, but were determined to make the best of it. We also swore that if we saw someone wearing a Seattle Sounders jersey, we'd take the bastard down.
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