Hapiness

Sunset


The bus ride today to Valencia was pretty uneventful except that as soon as we got back on the bus after our break I really had to go to the bathroom, so I just sat there thinking about having to go and not being able to because the bus wasn’t going to stop for another 2.5 hours. When we made it to the bus station there wasn’t any toilet paper and I didn’t have any in my bag either, so I found some napkins and went into the bathroom with overflowing trashcans of unflushed poo toilet paper. The smell isn’t actually that bad it’s more the flies that land in the poop toilet paper and then on me.

My hotel is outside of town and a metro doesn’t run there and neither does a city bus so I needed to take a metro area bus. I had emailed the hotel for directions but they weren’t very descriptive, so I asked at an information desk and was given a map with an “x” on it. I walked to the “x” and met two British women. The British women told me they had been further down the street when the bus had passed 10 minutes earlier and the driver had waved at them to go further up the street. They were now waiting where the “x” was on my map. The spot was on the side of the street where there was no shade and there wasn’t a breeze it was a very long 30 minutes for the next bus, who drove by and again pointed further down the street. We walked further down the street to where it ended in a roundabout. It wasn’t possible to go any further down. I saw another metro bus and decided to investigate. It was the bus I wanted and it was on the other side of the street 3 blocks away from where the tourist information woman had said, with the sign covered with posters so it was unreadable.

The bus took a really long time for people to load in, I’m not sure what they were doing, it took me 10 seconds to make sure it was going where I wanted and to produce the required money. While on the bus I was sitting behind an elderly woman and as the bus stopped people got on the bus. Another elderly woman got on the bus and sat next to the woman in front of me. I thought to myself, how cute the one old woman wants to sit by the other one. Then the woman in front of me suddenly stood up and decided to stand. I guess she didn’t want anyone to sit next to her and if they were she was going to stand.

My hotel is across the street from a forest like park and then on the other side of the park is the beach. I checked into the room and then headed to the beach to check things out. I walked up the beach and watched a naked little girl take a poop on a sand castle, I almost fell over I was laughing so hard. To the north I can see the ports of Valencia and to the south is a town on the sea.

I was walking along the beach, by myself, listening to the waves crash, watching the sunset over the dunes to the west and it was so romantic.

While eating dinner I was watching the two children at the table next to me. They were brother and sister and were filling up their glasses with little shots of water and then racing to drink them the fastest. I had a flash in my mind to 15 years from now when they will be slamming alcohol instead of water. What a fun game for kids to play.

I keep hearing people talk about how they are having fun, but they miss home and cannot wait to go back. I definitely do not feel that way. I love and miss everyone back at home, but this is vacation, this is the life, this is incredible. I would never go home if I didn’t have to pay for all of this fun. When you see a child and they discover something be it their toes, a bell, or pretty much anything they get so excited and that happiness spreads to everyone who sees them. That’s how my life is right now, I never know what to expect or what new thing I will encounter and I am so excited and happy for the next thing and the next day.

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