Valencia 3- THE HOLY GRAIL

Here's our hostel, with a cool blue-tiled dome on top, as is common in Valencia. A dome, cause we were living in a church. Yep, the right side of the church has a building that is the hostel, and the top floor goes into the church, where we slept just below the vaulted ceiling of the original church. So over the entrance of the church below the bell tower was our room. The rest of the church was functioning and looking as normal.

This was my bed. You can see that I could actually TOUCH the beginnings of the vaulted ceiling of the church there.

Another look at the vault, and half of the 16-bed room we stayed in.

We were also able to get onto the roof of our hostel/church, where we partook of the best 66 cent and 1 euro wine I've ever had. As good as 10 dollar wine in the states. Remarkable.

We headed separate ways our second day, because some of us wanted to see THE HOLY GRAIL. WHAT?!?!? THE Holy Grail?!? Yeah. The Holy Grail. I guess Elsa didn't drop it down that chasm at the end of the movie after all.

This was the church- pretty cool dome. Lots of glass. Gothic.

This was some relic of St. Someone. Their entire hand. Alarming.

A small model of the church, usually just called The Cathedral.

In the church's museum, this used to reside behind the altar. Lots of gold. Yeah.

Aaaaaaaaaaand this is the sun shining in a stained glass window, above the place where they kept THE HOLY GRAIL.

THE HOLY GRAIL. So, Jesus touched that. Drank out of it. That's sorta crazy. It looks different than the movie though........

Then after seeing one of the most amazing single artifacts in human history, we headed back to the Caltrava campus, to go to the Oceanarium. Pretty sweet. Giant rooms of glass walls with things swimming. Like giant crabs:

Giant starfish:

Seahorses:

And JELLYFISH! AMAZING!! With a blacklight on. SO cool. A movie of that posted later.

A tunnel of fish.

A fish with fins on the top and bottom. I don't understand. The fish is flat.

Sharks! They swam right over us in the tunnel!

A cool building there.

A white beluga!

Theeeeeeen we went to a dolphin show. Videos of those forthcoming. Badass. I wish I could be a trainer and stand on dolphins and have them throw me up into the air. Wow.

They're being pushed across the water by dolphins. Redickulous.

Apparently the dolphin show sold giant beers. With free hats. John, Dave, Nathan.

As soon as this ended we headed to our five hour train ride, and our 48 hours in Valencia were done. It was a great city.