The Matt Faus Blog

Ashley came to Valencia this weekend, and we had a great time. When she arrived Thursday evening we dropped her stuff off and went downtown to have a nice dinner. The meal was good and hanging out amongst all of the beautiful architecture of downtown was very enjoyable. After the meal we met some of my friends from Don Quijote a few blocks over and jumped around to a couple of different pubs there for a while, but decided to make it a relatively early night since I wanted to work the next morning. There are really quite a few street vendors downtown, with things ranging from imitation Rolexes, to flowers, to these crazy dancing dolls. Much like the Santa Claus dolls you see at Christmas that sing and dance, these dolls do the same thing. The funny thing was that in the last place we were in, we got the vendor to put 3 of them on our table and had them all dancing at once. All the while, the girl trying to buy one was trying to bargain him down on the price. It was really quite comical to see a donkey and two Dalmatian dolls singing and dancing in synchronization.