El último día en Valencia...

Today was our last day in Valencia, so naturally we spent it on a beautiful beach called El Saler, which is about 20 minutes outside of the city. We took a public bus there at 7 in the morning so that we could make the most of the day. When we arrived only a few fishermen were there and they were cleaning the sand, so we had our choice of where to go. We found a jellyfish on the shore, but never found one in the water thank goodness! The water was really nice! It wasn't a nude beach, but it is not uncommon to see women without tops...A little weird to get used to. Anyway, we were so hungry by lunchtime (no earlier than 2 in Spain) that we ordered a huge thing of lobster and shrimp paella and a huge tomato and tuna appetizer. I'll have to post a pic of that too. Mike couldn't believe how big the paella pan was, since they served it to us out of the pan. The restaurant we went to was right on the beach.

Oh, and last night I forgot to mention the pink rose. We went to an Italian restaurant to eat outside and were just finishing up our meal when this old man comes up to Mike selling this huge bunch of roses that smelled really good. Mike didn't want to buy flowers from him and kept telling him "No, gracias!" And then he asked me after like the fifth time how to say "Have a good night" to him, lol. Anyway, we didn't get that far because the man started telling me that he hadn't sold any all day and that he needed money to eat. I figured I'd just buy one, since they smelled really good anyway. Later on I took off the plastic and realized that he must have put rose smelling perfume on it because it was the plastic surrounding the rose that smelled better than the actual rose! Hehe. Mike joked that it was probably plastic and when I carted it around to all of these places I'd find that out because it would never die. Well, I took it to the beach this morning and it did die for lack of water. Mike told me he'd never forget that I gave in to buying that rose...