Spain

Ok so here I go with my blog entry on Spain. I'm gonna try to give a brief summary about my time there. Basically I have some friends in Valencia that I met in the summer when I went there for a language course. They still study there and told me about this festival, so I decided to drop down and have a look at things. The festival is called "Fallas" and a Falla is like a statue that I will show you in some of the pics below. I don't exactly understand all the details of the festival yet, but over a period of 5 days the 300+ fallas are setup all over town and you can go and look at them. They have huge fallas and smal ones for children. All but one of them are burnt to ashes at the end of the festival and that one that is not burnt is put in a fallas museum. K, here I go with the pics.





Some friends of mine from England.







Some Friends of mine from Germany and Austria. The one on the far right is a guy I met in the summer, the other girls we met there. They went to the same language school as I did in the summer.









A pic with some more friends from the summer. The guy in the middle is an old flat mate of mine, he studies mathematics in Valencia. He does some crazy things when he has been drinking...but super fun to hang out with.






This was the "Virgen" aka virigin. They put flowers on here by hand by throwing them up. The end result is a dress of flowers. I think it took them like 12 hours to complete it.








These are two pics of the biggest fallas they made. The first one is uncontested, because it was some special one of the city, the latter was place 3, both got burned.



Here is a burning falla. Those things get pretty hot, it's crazy a lot of people were running away from it after being too close.

Here are some fireworks. They had a lot of fireworks. Everyday was a big one like this and over the course of 5 days. We guesstimated one to cost something like 200k.

Yesterday I purchased Poker Tracker Omaha and have decided to dedicate 3k of my bankroll to playing PLO 50. Should be a fun experience and a nice change of pace. Not sure how many hands I will be getting in a month, but NLH will obviously still be my main focus.