Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The rest of the Valencia trip went smoothly. Sunday, we pretty much walked around a good majority of the city. We went by my old apartment on the way to the beach and even ran into my landlord from almost 3 years ago.We shared a room with an Australian girl and a guy from El Salvador in the hostel. We also befriended a couple Australian guys, that didn't speak Spanish, from the hostel that went out in the city with us. Monday, we rested in the morning and then went to the aquarium in the afternoon and that was a wrap on that day. On Tuesday, we headed back to Murcia. We stayed in Murcia to have Christmas with our few friends that were still here in Spain. That night we went to a light show that took place in the main plaza. It was a show about the birth of Jesus and it was all displayed on the cathedral. Christmas Eve is known as Noche Buena here and is probably more important than Christmas Day. We had our dinner, sang Christmas carols in English and French and then went back to the cathedral at midnight for the service. Of the 6 of us that went, only 1 was Catholic so we really didn't understand what all that was going on. After that hour long service, we went to bed. Christmas morning we had breakfast then exchanged gifts and walked around the city some more. That was my Christmas in Spain.

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