I had to get up SO early this morning!! I had my mom call me at like 5:15am here (10:15pm at home) just to make sure that I'd actually get up! haha good thing I packed last night!
I got to the IES center at around 7, which was good because we had to leave at 7:15. The bus ride took FOREVER!! Probably about 6 hours total! Apparently some of the highways were closed, so we had to take back roads in an abandoned town, so all the roads were marked wrong!! We almost drove into a river, no joke. We stopped at this castle place to have a late breakfast. It was a big breakfast, which is really weird for the Spanish! It was so nice though, because they just kept bringing out these big bottles of cold water, and fresh OJ! We also had coffee, churros, toast and pastries of all kinds, and they kept bringing out different foods! I think they were trying to give us a breakfast that would be similar to one in the US. They brought out Spanish Tortillas (basically a potato omelet), chorizo (sausage), and this stuff called migas, which is like fried bread with meat in it, I think. I guess that was their version of a waffle haha
Then we got on the bus again for another couple hours before we finally got to Valencia. We checked into the hotel (Hotel Dimar) at about 2pm, and then had some free time before we had to go on our Paseo Historico (historical walk lol). Some friends and I went outside to a fountain and ate our packed lunches.
One the historical tour of the city, we saw the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (like the city center), the Plaza de Reina, Miguelete, which was this HUGH tower that we had to climb (I thought I might die, because I've been sick and my lungs are not functioning properly lol They call the bell Miguel or Miguelete. I'm not sure why, but I think it's really funny!!), a Cathedral, and Lonja (which apparently means "slice" in Spanish, but it just looked like a church to me hahaha). We saw a lot of orange trees outside one of the churches! Valencian oranges!
After the historical tour, some friends and I decided to relax for a little bit before going to a sushi restaurant near the hotel. Food was a little overpriced, but the restaurant was adorable! It was all white, silver and pink, and they little screen where you could watch them making the sushi! We got our food to go and then took the bus to the beach. I was so excited to be there!! We walked around in the water a little bit. It was my first time ever in the Mediterranean :)
The sushi was delicious!! And this lady who was walking on the beach with her little boy said "aproveche!!" which basically means, "enjoy your food!" I thought it was so nice, because people in Madrid really don't talk to people they don't know. It's been really weird for me, because in the Southwest, people are usually really friendly!!
After a while it started to rain, so we decided we'd better go back to the hotel. On the way back we got some really tasty ice cream :)
Hopefully tomorrow will be just as fun!!
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