Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

Tapas, wandering, and Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain.

I’d been in Valencia for a week and, let’s face it, I’d done nothing. On Friday we were determined to change all that. The plan was to walk around the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and then walk around the town center and then go to an Oktoberfest celebration.

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain

Which might have been a good plan. If it didn’t start raining.

So we ducked into a mall for cover.

And ended up eating at a Spanish buffet.


Spanish buffet in Valencia, Spain

Spanish buffet in Valencia, Spain

Spanish buffet in Valencia, Spain

And then it was still raining so we wandered the mall.

Wandering a mall in Valencia, Spain

Wandering a mall in Valencia, Spain

Wandering a mall in Valencia, Spain

And the Carrefour.

Carrefour in Valencia, Spain

Carrefour in Valencia, Spain

Carrefour in Valencia, Spain

And after all that it was still raining. And we all felt tired and out of it. So we took a cab back home and Jaime and spent the rest of the day in bed watching episodes of Modern Family.

Jaime naked in Valencia, Spain

And then it stopped raining and so we went back to the same place we’d gone the night before for tapas.

Tapas in Valencia, Spain

Tapas in Valencia, Spain

Tapas in Valencia, Spain

And thus continued our streak of doing pretty much nothing in Valencia…

Hi, I'm Val. I spent most of my 20s in a standstill, unable to pick which path in life I wanted to take. I wanted the nomadic life of a traveler but also wanted the husband, the condo, and the kitten. Unable to decide which life I wanted more, I did nothing. When I turned 30 I’d had enough of putting my life on hold and decided to start “choosing my figs.” So, I quit my job, bought a one-way ticket to Europe, and traveled for three years. Now I'm back in Chicago, decorating my apartment in all the teal, petting my cats, and planning my next adventure.

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3 Comments
  • Jaime
    September 9, 2011at9:01 am

    OMG MY HAND IS OVER MY MOUTH IN SHOCK… I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU POSTED THAT PIC OF ME… LMFAO!!! OMG I AM CRACKING UP…

  • Ali
    September 9, 2011at1:37 pm

    Val, those are some great pics. I love the clouds in the dinosaur pic, the one of Jaime with the elephant thing is hilarious, and the wall of ham and ham sleeves…nightmares. But most of all, I’m so glad you posted the “naked” picture of Jaime. Makes me laugh every time I see it!

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