Valencia - LAS FALLAS

Hola todos,
sorry its been so long since i've written, i've had a lot going on in my classes and have done a lot of traveling these past couple of weekends. first off: Valencia. its a city on the eastern coast of spain and we went for a puente which is what they call four day weekends here. We took a bus there and arrived late wednesday night and got up on thursday, the main day of the fallas and fathers day (dia de san jose, the father of christ, aka carptenter, hence why they have big fires) and we wandered around valencia seeing all the fallas we could fit into the day. fallas are huge, three story high wooden statues that are super ornate and at the end of thursday they burn them. we staked out our spot and on thursday night watched the burning of the main falla in the city center with a huge fireworks show following the burning. Friday we slept in a little bit and then got up and went to the beach all day. It was maybe 70 or 75 degrees and beautiful, the water was a bit cold but we weren't about to pass up a chance to swim in the mediterranean! we went home and made a wonderful spaghetti dinner that night. Saturday we decided to hit up the museum of arts and sciences and the aquarium which all were really cool. The aquarium had this underground tunnel thing where you were surrounded by sharks and tropical fish and whatnot, plus we got to see a dolphin show! After a day full of tourism we decided to do a flamenco dinner and show. We got an amazing three course dinner of Paella followed by an awesome show of flamenco dancing! Sunday we got up and went to the falla museum which houses parts of fallas dating back to like 1930 or something like that and after that we headed home after an amazing weekend!