"I Think I Need A Sunrise..."

I can’t remember the last time I intentionally woke up early to watch the sunrise. And pulling all-nighters and watching the sun rise from Wurster Hall doesn’t count. Whenever that “last time” was, it has been a while… until today! It was our last day in Altea so I feel really fortunate to have gotten the chance to see this gorgeous sight. I don’t know how we did it but Melissa and I got ourselves out of bed at 5:50am and headed to the roof terrace. It was still pretty dark outside but we decided to sit and stay put because Alex told us the sun would rise around then. But little did we know, the sunrise didn’t happen until almost 7am! Can you believe that? Haha we were an hour early and stood in the cold air an hour more than we needed to but once the sun peaked over the mountains in Altea and shined over the city and ocean… it all became worth it.

It was so beautiful! As soon as the sun was on a roll rising up, it rose just as quickly as it would drop to the horizon during a sunset. But anyway, once we felt that we soaked in the moment enough, we called it a sunrise and rushed back to sleep. We got to sleep for a couple of more hours before we set out for the rest of the day.


Before leaving beautiful Altea, we spent some time in town, but this time, during the day time. It was definitely a lot more barren and empty in the day; none of the stores opened until 10:30am! Haha aye pues. The view of the Mediterranean from where we were was pretty sweet, I must say. The scenery was like a painting. We didn’t have a lot of time before we had to check out of the hostel, so we scurried out of the narrow, cobblestone streets. We made a quick pit-stop at the Mercadona where Alex bought us a variety of necessary ingredients for us to make sandwiches with on the bus ride to Valencia. Making sandwiches, cutting cheese, serving each other at the back of the bus… was pure magic. And it left us much more satisfied than usual.

We arrived in Valencia to the site of some amazing structures… we are definitely in a modern city. Upon arrival, we checked into the Red Nest Hostel and met Alex at an archeological museum nearby. The rest of the day was really fun as we climbed an intense tower of a cathedral to see an epic view of the whole city of Valencia, took some extremely adorable silly-face pictures with Melissa, and rode the local ferris wheel. Now that, was sweet.

I used the free wifi with my ipod at the top of the stairwell at the hostel and browsed the internet as I dripped with sweat. Lovey haha.