Hello Valencia!

Fri, March 6th

Valencia, Spain

Overall, it's been a pretty nice 4 days here in Valencia. Our first full day it rained all day, so we bought a 2 day pass to the City of Arts and Sciences. This place is like 3 football fields long and houses a science museum, an I-max theater, and a performing arts center. All the architecture is amazing. It looks like something out of Star Trek. Anyways, after trudging through the rain we decided to drop over 50 Euro for a full days pass to the museum, the Aquarium, and 2 tickets to an I-max film about the Alps. It was nice to be out of the rain, but we still ended up soaked on our way back to our hostel.

That evening we were able to meet our hostel mates, a really nice couple from Sofia, Bulgaria. Apparently they get 30 days of paid vacation to use whenever they want. Pretty nice. Oh, another funny story: The hostel innkeeper Jason is actually from Des Moines! So it's been nice catching him up to the news back home.

Yesterday we walked to the beach – very pretty. Later in the afternoon we walked back down to the old party of Valencia and saw all the old churches and monuments.

We've been pretty good with our money so far, but it's awfully hard when every block there is a Churreria wafting deliciousness your way. Thus far, I think the majority of our expenses have been on Churros, and Espresso.

Today we were planning on either taking a ferry or plane to Ibiza, but a single day plane ticket costs over 200 Euro, so I think today will just be a chill day. We'll probably hang out with Jason again and commandeer his internet connection.

We'll post some pictures from Valencia soon. Be sure to check them out.

Hasta la proxima!