Wednesday morning we headed towards the City of Arts and Sciences on the opposite side of Valencia, which has an arts museum, planetarium, science museum, and aquarium.
The City of Arts and Sciences is a fairly new part of Valencia, and the architecture here is amazing. The City is located at the end of a large riverbed turned into park, but the ultra modern designs of each building makes you feel like you are in another world.
We walked around the whole area and then decided to go into the science museum and the aquarium.
For those of you reading this from Alaska, the science museum is similar to the Imaginarium on steroids. It is a super interactive science museum with activity stations, work shops, displays, etc, all designed to bring science to life. There are exhibits on pretty much everything you can think of, electricity, construction, energy, global warming, space, health, DNA, sports medicine, gene research, and so much more. We spent about 2.5 hours visiting all three floors and almost every station.
We left in complete awe and headed to the aquarium, which was also amazing. It is designed to take you above and below ground, showing you a variety of marine life from all over the world. There are many impressively long tunnels that take you from one side of the world to the other, all the while surrounded by fish.
About three quarters through our tour of the aquarium, we made our way to the dolphin show. It is very similar to what you would find at Sea World, but it was still pretty impressive. It had a slightly different twist, the show was focused more on teaching spectators about dolphins instead of tricks, although there were plenty of tricks.
We left the dolphin show, made our way around the last parts of the aquarium and then headed to the beach.
Valencia has hosted the European Grand Prix on the Valencia Street Circuit for the last three years, and just so happened to be hosting it for the fourth time this coming weekend. The city was preparing for the exciting weekend event, and while walking along the beach we were definitely feeling left out of the action (we were leaving for Girona tomorrow).
After debating the expenses, travel arrangements, and all the logistics associated with going to the race, we decided to go for it and bought tickets for the race! Totally elated, we went out to dinner to celebrate!
We ate at La Pepica, a suggestion from on guide book, located on Malvarossa Beach. Everyone who gave us advise about Valencia said the same thing, have paella on Malvarossa Beach, and so that is exactly what we did. We ate a wonderful paella, one of the best I have ever had, had a delicious bottle of wine, and celebrated our new adventure. It was a fabulous end to a fabulous day.
It ended even better when we realized we were having dinner right next to Rubens Barriochello, a F1 driver from Brazil.
We made our way back to the hotel, I had to of course tell my dad about all of this, and then we packed for our trip to Girona in the morning.
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