Spain 2nd installment

I swear there will not be 7 installments 

documenting my week long trip.

I will try not to bore y'all to death.

I will just give you only the highlights.

Good and bad.

After Sunday I am even more

thankful for living in the USA

and so grateful to be home safely.

The world is a scary place.

I am blessed to be able to live in a community

where locked car doors and locked windows and doors

are not a necessity.
I am thankful for Diet Coke.
Coca-cola Light does not taste like Diet Coke.
I am thankful for coffee that doesn't taste like Sanka.
I am thankful that $20 =$20 and not paying
exchange fees and transactions fees so it = about $12.
We live in the best country  in the world.
Spain is a beautiful country.
But I am an American at heart.

On with the trip:

Day 2

We arose late due to the late evening 

and no sleeping on our flights.

 No luggage had arrived.

It was Easter.

The office was only open for 2 hours.

Everyone had a change of clothes in their carry-on.

It was all good.

We grabbed some brunch.

We headed off to Valencia to a big aquarium.

It was about an hour away.

We navigated the roads fairly decently.

David was pretty good 

with all the round-about intersections.

We saw some nice scenery.

I learned a few things at the aquarium.

There was a tank like tunnel you walked through

that allowed the fish to swim above you.

Sharks were over my head.

You can most definitely

distinguish gender when a shark is overhead.

I know the picture quality is not good

but this is a female and it is blatantly obvious

when you are under them.

Who knew?

Well, Linda did because she worked

in a tropical fish lab in college.

Who knew that?

Also, it appears this is making a huge comeback in Europe.

Business in the front, party in the back... 

the mullet is your ticket.

(I saw it several times during the week.)

We had a great time.

The Spanish dolphins look

very much the same as the American dolphins.

The walruses were something else.

The male had spent too much time 

at the El Quixote strip club, I think.

He was worked up ...really worked up.

The female was basically running from him...

walrus style of running

which I guess would be fast swimming.

I was glad to leave that part of the scene.

We finished the day with a search for dinner.

Nothing was open for food, only drinks.

We finally found a Chinese restaurant.

 We opened the place at 8 pm.

It looked like a reception hall.

It was huge.

They had massive amounts of food.

No people though.

Eventually a few people did show up.

We hit a large grocery type store to purchase coffee,

and headed home.

A few missed turns, but we made it. 

Lots of laughs.

Lots of fun.

Another late night. 

Gripping, I know.
It got worse.
Way worse.

Stay tuned.