Valencia!

OMG Valencia is AMAZING!!! i had such an amazing weekend, so just as a heads up, this will be a very long post. Friday we left to head towards Valencia, but my group made a stop in Peniscola which is this beautiful sea town on the way to Valencia. In Peniscola I had a tour of my first castle (muy exciting) and made my first friend other than my roommate. Her name is Nicolette and she's pretty cool. She's from Texas and fun, but def very energetic. Like way more than me. But it was still fun. THen after spending some time there we went to Valencia and checked in to our hotel, Hotel Beatrix. Turns out, my roommate at the hotel, Jill, was one of the nice people that I met at this speed networking thing the other day, so that turned out well. At dinner we met a bunch more people that are pretty much awesome. There's Christina, Vinnie, Sean, Kaitlyn, and Lindsey. So after dinner we all met up and went out to a couple bars. The first one was alright, the wine I had was good but the place itself was just eh. So we went searching for another place and found this place called Sweet Soul. It was so much fun. There werent a lot of people in there and it was decorated in like 70s stuff which is always fun. So, since we had the place to ourselves it was a good time. Then on Saturday, had breakfast and went on a tour of the old part of Valencia and the Cathedral there. It was absolutely beautiful and very interesting. We also went through the central market which I found to be mesmerizing with the atmosphere. Then we had some free time to grab lunch and look around, so we went to a cafe and had sandwiches and just walked around for awhile. Then we headed with the group to the ciudad des artes y sciences and checked out some of the buildings there (which were magnificent) and then we headed towards the playa and saw where all of the teams have their boats for the America's Cup. Then went back to the hotel took a siesta and went to dinner which was much better from the night before. We had salad and paella and fruit. Then we met some more people Quinn, Steve, Raul, Charlie, Ralph, Lennon, and Meryl and we all went out. We went to placa de la Reina and found this pub called "Pub Sherlock Holmes" It was pretty sweet, we just sat around and talked and stuff. Then we went back to the hotel. Yesterday we got up, checked out, and went to the aquarium (which in all honesty was kind of depressing) and then had time to get lunch. Then we came back to Barcelona. Today was chill, I had class and then an advising meeting at 5:15 and inbetween just grabbed lunch and hung out with people and now I am getting ready to go to my friend Christina's neighborhood where a bunch of us are meeting up to go get some drinks and chill. I am sorry about not having any pics up yet, but I am working on it i promise!!