Montjuic Magic Fountain

One night we made sure to check out the Magic Fountain show at Montjuic. I kept hearing about it in class and read about it in one of my tour books. It´s a fountain on the grounds of Montjuic and I think it may have been part of the opening ceremonies for the Barcelona Olympics. They have a show on Friday and Saturday nights.

We made our way down there about 20 minutes before showtime and were looking forward to seeing this exciting show. Well...it was not so exciting...in fact it was...how can I put it...LAME! OMG! We sat through this very boring fountain show for more than an hour. We kept thinking it would get better. The beginning part (a good 30 minutes) didn´t even have music - I guess that was the warm up. Then the music started, but it was very slow and not very exciting.

This magical fountain had very little magic. The fountain would spurt into some sort of formation for a mintue or so and then change colors and then onto maybe a new formation and so on and so on and so on. If you´ve ever seen the fountain show at the Bellagio in Vegas then you know how a fountain show should be done. It´s fast paced, goes to the music AND they have multiple shows EVERYDAY! Now when people mention the Montjuic fountain show I urge them to go to Vegas to see how it´s done.

I guess if you had never, ever, EVER seen a fountain show you MIGHT think this one was cute. MIGHT...