Un Paseo-Lunes durante el día

For those who didn't know, Becky (Rebecca Kelley) visited me for a couple days during the beginning of fallas. Right now she is studying in England, so it was easy to visit for a jiffy. After recovering on Sunday from a long night on Saturday, Monday we were ready to take a walk around the city to see some fallas. We went to the mascleta, where I think Becky almost pissed her pants because the buildings were vibrating so much it was so loud. Her face looked like a little kid she was so excited.

Plaza de Ayuntamiento before the mascleta, we had a great spot, even though we were so squished arm movement was limited

the plaza afterwards, yeah, we valencianos like to blow stuff up

Afterwards we shoved, pushed, stepped on feet, and swerved to get to Sol i Luna, the favorite bar of people in the Earlham crowd, to get some typical spanish grub. We met up with Kaitlin and Cristina, and Chris, of course, popped in. I have a wonderful picture of Kaitlin and her crawling on the floor looking for the back of Kaitlin's earring, but I thought I'd respect her pride and not post it. After throughly stuffing ourselves full of yummy goodness we parted ways and Becky and I wandered the city.

La Ofrenda- each falla (except mine) dresses in traditional garb and offers flowers to the Virgin, by the end of the week the empty wood space is filled with beautiful flowers and the entire plaza smells wonderful

one of my favorite fallas, everybody gotta love them granny panties

falla infantil de falla Corona (falla de Kaitlin)

falla gran de Corona, it was their 150th anniversary so their theme was the phoenix

a HUGE falla, unfortunately my fotos of its size didn't turn out well