Alicante is... Alright

Hey all! Writing to you from Alicante, Spain! We´re in a 24 hour internet cafe and its about 4 PM my time on Saturday. Alicante has been cloudy both today and yesterday and quite cold. We´ve been semi-joking, semi-serious in saying that we shouldnt have gone to Alicante, but found another city to visit. The hostel is weird. It has a full size bed, and then above it a small, short twin size bed - with no latter or means of getting up. It´s very far from the city in an industrial/manufacturing zone. The bathrooms resemble biffy´s, and the showers are the ¨push-to-confir-you´re-still-showering¨type. AKA: You bush a button every 10 seconds or it will shut off. Very annoying. Yesterday Janet and I, after making it to the hostel, went into town to visit the Castillo de Santa Barbara, a castle overlooking the city. It was crazy, you walk into a long tunnel to the center of the mountain to then take an elevator to the top. We then walked along the beach for a bit, saw some snorklers risking their lives swimming by the huge rocks with the waves crashing ashore. There were three of them and we couldn´t figure out what they were looking at/for. We stopped in Corte Ingles (which is all over Spain, basically offering American products at rediculously high prices) where I bought a deck of cards for 3.20 Euros. Then Janet and I went back to the hostal. I got some time in the Word, watched a bit of Meet the Parents on my iPod and we went to bed. Janet was asleep by 7:30, me by 8:30, and we got up at 8:30 the next morning... yeah. We were tired.

Saturday: We first tried to catch a train to Valencia but were too late, that would have been great. We also discovered that getting to these famous caves outside of town are not reachable without a car. So we wandered around Alicante a bit, heading to a cafe in the port with a great view of the boats. We played a game of war that lasted almost an hour and followed up with rummy. After having lost last night to her in rummy, I showed her how Savats dominate at board/card games and won. We then went to find an aquarium, that was literally one large (not that large) fishtank in the middle of a square with about 8 fish in it. How is that a museum? Then we went to another cafe to grab some ice cream - I went with one scoop banana/one scoop strawberry. We played cards there for about 30 minutes, and being the only people in the store we were surprised when the woman working there told us that we couldn´t play cards. Hmmmm. Maybe she wanted us to leave? After that we went to MARQ (Museo de Arquolico) Museum of Archeology. It was pretty cool. We´re now sharing some internet and then heading back to the hostal to get tons of sleep again. Miss you all - Bye!

Aust