I know it's been another drought of me updating. My laziness definitely gets the best of me sometimes.
The past couple of weeks have been pretty packed, with the next 3 looking to be even more so. I start Spring Break on Saturday and will have TONS to talk about so I figured I better post about the past couple of events before they get lost amidst of the craziness.
Two weeks or so ago, there was a big festival called Las Fallas in a near by city called Valencia. Basically, everyone shows up to this shindig cause it's pretty much pure madness. In short, the purpose of the festival is to honor St. Joseph, well that was why it was started. However, now, it's just a party...the city builds these massive monuments and burns them all at midnight. Fallas means "torch" in latin (more or less). And we're talking about fire...there's about a hundred of these monuments placed all over the city...and every single one gets burned.
So since, it happens St. Joe's Feast Day aka Father's Day in Spain...there is no school. So my friends and I took the train to Valencia and hung out all day...eating paella and taking in the sights. It was pure madness. We left right before the riots started, so I guess I didn't get the full experience, but it was still fun.
one of the many statues/ monuments
another one...
oh paella...
city cathedral
night shot.So, hopefully you all can hang tight until tomorrow or maybe Thursday. Cause I promise...I'll post about this past weekend when I went to Granada...I'd write about it now...but it would be alot. Soon though!
Hasta,
Megan
:)
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