May 22nd

Okay…so the in Spain they use real sugar cane for foods and stuff…so that means that the Coca-Cola tastes SO much better and since they use the real stuff for food…the chocolate here is real cocoa…not the fake stuff that we use in the United States ;) So…here is a Kit-Kat Bar made with real cocoa and is SO much better than what we have at home! (: Mom…you would like this stuff so much! And Suki too!

This afternoon we went to the History Museum of Valencia…we couldn’t take flash pictures in there…so I made the best of what I could do and here are some of the pictures…

The first pictures is just a piece of a wall. Not really sure what it is because all of the signs were in Spanish and the tour guide spoke all Spanish and I was a little distracted with taking the pictures…but there you have it.

These texts are plans to punish Valencia when they supported the “wrong” people in a war and the opposing side won the war in Spain. All of the other Kingdoms in Spain supported the “right” group and weren’t punished.

Not really sure what this is…but it looked coolJ

Okay…so you may think this outfit is for a woman…but it’s not. This is worn in one of the many celebrations in Valencia by one of the Holy guys or something like that….again…..everything was in Spanish and I wanted a picture J I do know what this next thing is though!

This dress is something all women in Valencia own…even today! This is a traditional Valenciana dress that women wear during the celebrations in the city (at the same time the guy wears his dress). Now the women have much more fancier dresses, but ultimately look the same!

Sorry I didn’t have a lot of pictures today but the museum was no flashL We rode the metro there, which was my first time on the Metro here! Afterwards a few of the girls on the trip went to a fondue place near the American Institute (our school). You may think…fondue?....why are they eating fondue?...well because it was what we wanted. It was really good and everything had a kind of Spanish twist….the queso (cheese) was amazing and we dipped patatas (potatoes), pan tostado (toast), mazanas (apples), y jamón (ham) into the queso! For lunch we had pollo (chicken) which was much better than yesterday.

Well, tomorrow is a free day so a bunch of us are going to the beach…no I won’t be taking pictures today at the beach…sorry! It’s just kind of inconvenient to take my camera. I won’t be positing a blog tomorrow or Friday…but look out for one on Monday after my weekend trip to Granada!

Adios!