Lake Albufera

This is a very shallow lake surrounded by rice fields just outside of Valencia.  It is popular for bird watching and we thought our kids would enjoy a nice quiet boat ride to rest after hours in the car.  I won't comment much about the pictures but just post some of our favorite shots.

 This is what my family looks like after 7 hours in the car.  Here we are just waiting to take off.

Since it took so long to get to Valencia fortunately we didn't get here until just before the sunset. 

We were starving by the time we were done so we went straight to the little town of Albufera to get some "Paella", which originated here in Valencia.  Paella is a rice, vegetable, and meat (most often seafood) dish flavored with saffron.  Since it was labor day most everything was closed except two restaurants, one being more of a pub and the other a nice sit down restaurant which is what we chose.  The paella was super yummy or it might have just been that we didn't get served until 10pm and we were starving.  We hadn't eaten a meal since 8:30 am before taking off from home and had just been eating snacks to get us by until we got to Valencia, but then everything was closed for the holiday.