Adiós Barcelona--Hola Valencia!

Today we had to leave Barcelona at 7 in the morning after only two hours of sleep--We're definitely not used to the time change yet as it is, and lots of people stayed up late at the hostel. Anyway, after 3 days of practice using the metro we were going to try it again hauling our bags through it to get to the train station. We thought we were giving ourselves enough time, but things just weren't going our way. First, we left a little later then planned because the elevator was stuck at the tippity top floor of the hostel. Then we were debating taking the taxi since we were cutting it close. The receptionist at the hostel told us that it would cost 30 Euro to get to the train station, as opposed to about 3 Euro on the metro. We also didn't even have that much cash on us. Anyway, so we zoomed to the metro station and tried to get through the gate, but our T-10 card, which gives us 10 trips on the metro was used up! We had used it more than we thought. So I was quickly unlocking my backpack to get out my credit card to buy two more tickets, then it wouldn't accept my credit card. Yikes! This just gets better! So I tried calling the cab company to get a cab quickly, but of course that wasn't working either...I'm not joking--crazy morning on little sleep. So we ran back to the hostel--with our huge bags and then asked the receptionist to call us a cab. He told us it would take a cab 10 minutes to get there; that was cutting it close, but there was nothing else we could do. Luckily the cab showed up within a minute thank God! I asked the taxi driver to stop at an ATM so we could pay him, and we got to the train station in time--yay! By the way, it ended up costing us 10 Euro for the taxi, I'm not sure how he judged that number wrong, yikes! I thought it seemed like a lot!

Anyways, so we made it to Valencia and we love it here! The hotel that we're staying in has internet in the room and there are palm trees everywhere. The culture is also a lot more laid back, and there are a lot less tourists from all over the world. We went to the beach right away and now we're about to get to dinner. Hasta pronto!