Good times in Valencia

Hello again! I love 5 hour bus rides so I can catch up with my journal! So to Wednesday... it was All Saints Day aka All Stores Closed Day. So most of the restaurants weren't open either, and it was the day we thought about going to Madrid but traveling is expensive in Spain so we are just going to Barcelona. Wednesday however was beach day!
Woohoo!
We went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. Yep that's right, on November 1st, I was swimming. Granted we weren't in long because girls go to the ocean to tan and I didn't want to swim alone, that's really boring. So we swam for like 20 minutes, this being Kathleen, Jessica, Cassie and myself. Kathleen and Jessica slowly walked in, and I ran up from behind them, and jumped right into the water. It wasn't really that cold, well it was, but considering the last place I went swimming was Hampton Beach, it was pretty good. Really sandy, and we went out a ways before it even considered getting deep. I tried not to think how important all of this was for someone who loves the ancient world, but this sea was sooo important for the Romans and Greeks! Ohhh, it was awesome.

The only problem with the day was there was a breeze that was okay expect if you are on the beach, and then it was cold. It was like 75ish, but that breeze killed us! We didn't get going on the day until late, like 2ish, so we couldn't stay on the beach long anyway, but it was a nice time.

But we are on the beach, and this guy is selling coke (the drink) and he had the weirdest but most addicting song ever. Of course this is all he does during the day so I'm sure he makes it a little more creative to keep himself amused. It was all in Spanish and then it would end with, "very cooooooool". It was amusing the first 2 times, but then the girls next to us started singing it and it was not even remotely funny by then.

I tried a Spanish omelet Wednesday night. Jessica cooked them, it was really good. It was eggs, potatoes, peppers (didn't eat the peppers), tomatoes and cheese. It was a good first course, but I was still really hungry afterwards.

So after that we went to the rope course thing in the park, apparently we walked right by the day we walked in the park, so Jessica took us there. It was interesting, I of course climbed all over it, and went to the top. But the others said it hurt their feet too much so we just sat there and talked while I climbed. Haha. I didn't hang upside down like Kathleen though, that never occurred to me, I just climbed. Yeah it hurt my feet, I followed everyone's example and took off my sneakers but I should have just kept them on. Oh well.

We walked to the musical fountain next, and listened to that for awhile. Classical music plays, and the fountain does it's thing along with the music. I have a video or two of it, I'll probably put it on Webshots. It was fun and just cool to see. There wasn't any people when we went this time, unlike when we went in the day time and kids were doing laps around the whole thing.

Jessica's thought was to show us the port, because it's pretty lively down there at night, but yeah we forgot it was a holiday so it was completely empty. It's nice, but much more fun on nonholiday days. It was like Christmas, everything was closed! We couldn't even go to the grocery stores.

So when we got to Jessica's, it was like 11pm, and we all sat down tired from our walk. Jessica had gone up to the roof, another gathering was going on up there, and so only my flat mates were in the room, and we all just looked at each other, and I just said, "I'm hungry." On the way home we saw a pizza place open, so we all went. I couldn't deal with it anymore, I was so hungry. It was owned by Muslims, that's why it was opened. It was good though, and they had a TV, and it was in English with Spanish subtitles! That was fun, we got a table close to the TV to watch it. It was like Bend It Like Beckham, but no Joe. It was weird, and a musical... the music part killed it. It was great until that part. The pizza was great, I devoured mine.

And that was Wednesday. Next up Barcelona!