A long weekend in Spain!

So this is our last full weekend in Valencia so we had to take full advantage of it! On thursday night, we stayed in to watch a spanish movie (Celda 211) but we went out on Friday and Saturday night.

Friday day was spent at the beach all day, and unfortunately I got a little more sun on my legs than intended, but not too bad. We were relaxing, enjoying the picnic lunch we packed ourselves and reading and whatnot, when we saw a big cloud in the distance.

About 45 minutes later, we ended up sprinting to the metro stop to not get caught in the afternoon storm. We returned home and then after dinner Friday night we attended a short free concert of a spanish band who did covers of older american songs, and then we ended up at a spanish karaoke bar.

It was hilarious. Spanish karaoke is almost as terrible as american karaoke, except I have no idea what anyone is singing. We met some locals there, and I was able to practice my conversational spanish for an hour or two, and receive some free salsa lessons.

Then, Saturday night a small group of us decided we wanted to go out to eat somewhere nice, and since the italian restaurant we had initially planned to go to was full, we went to the place where we had cooking lessons on thursday.

The food was heavenly! This was the traditional Tortilla we had made in class on Thursday, and then I ordered an Iberian Fillet with foie gras and pesto sauce.

Later, we met up with a bar crawl group from a hostel downtown (called the Purple Nest) and went to Fox and Congo bar until the discoteca opened near the city of arts and sciences (L'Umbracle). Huge club, and we were able to get in for free which was really nice. There were two wedding parties there, so it was funny to see women in their wedding dress dancing it out among the crowd.

All in all, a great weekend! We have lots of things to wrap up with school this last week, and we also have one more day of cooking classes and a trip to a vineyard.