My dad came to visit us in Spain. One of the first places we went was to Valencia for the weekend. It was the weekend of the Las Fallas festival (explained in a later post). Valencia is a beautiful city and we saw many cool things.
One thing Valencia is known for in Spain is their City of Arts and Sciences, a stretch of the old riverbed that has several museums, one of which is an aquarium. I had heard about their awesome aquarium from many people, so I asked if we could go see it. We walked there, slowly because I'm not a particularly fast pregnant woman.
This is Hollis and I on our way there. Note my little preggo pooch.
The day was so nice. The beautiful buildings that make up the City of Arts and Sciences make for an un-missible photo op.
At the aquarium, there was a tunnel right through the middle of the tank with sharks in it. It made it seem like we could touch the fish!
After we spent time in the aquarium, we went to the dolphin show. It was pretty awesome! My favorite parts were when the trainers would appear to fly through the water by standing on the dolphin's noses. One guy had trained the dolphins to toss him in the air!
There were also several interesting things that we saw. Hollis really enjoyed the painting on the cover of a store front:
Also, we present beer! On tap. At your local ice cream parlor.
And to satisfy your craving for flayed pig head meat, here we have it! For only 2,20 € per kg!
And we saw the best mustache ever. You can only kind of see it in these pictures because we were scrambling to get out the camera before he walked away. It's the guy with the white mustache that sticks up above his head!
We climbed to the top of an old gate house. I love stairs, but it took me a while to get up to the top.
But once at the top, the view was quite lovely.
And lastly, but definitely not leastly, we saw THE holy grail. Indiana Jones got it wrong. It wasn't hiding in a cave guarded by a knight. It's here in Valencia! Behind three layers of glass in the cathedral.
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