6/17: Valencia

Did´t get up until 11 or so this morning, and then we had sandwiches and some pistachios for brunch and went to the beach. Hung out there for a loooong time - like 4 hours or so, tanning and swanning about in the water. It wasn´t as windy as on Friday, so we weren´t constantly getting grit everywhere, but it was a bit more crowded given that it´s a weekend. The waves were a bit more impressive, too, meaning they actually raised the water level on you when they went by. Everything is fucking closed today since it´s Sunday, even El Corte Ingles, so we went to some almost convenience-store type place and got nectarines, and cheese to have with our pistachios and pink wine and calimocho. Also got sandwich makings, though just like last night, we may not get to eating them until tomorrow morning. It´s been a nice slow day, very relaxed.

Oh! Got to talk to my parents last night over gmail talk, basically like Skype. Brett and I are having trouble with our internet phone service, but gTalk works really well, and after some initial difficulties, I was chatting with dad, who then handed the phone over to mom who conveniently happened to be at the house. It was really nice to talk to them - I´m not homesick at all, and I´m having a great time and I´ve been in touch with everyone, but there´s something different about hearing their voices. It was nice. Now I just need to engineer Josh getting over to my dad´s or getting gtalk so I can talk to himn on his birthday (a month from yesterday)

Tomorrow´s our last full day in Valencia, and I would guess that we´ll just spend that time mostly at the beach and walking in the park.