This is Valencia: the home of the Fallas!!! As you can see below, these statue looking things are what people spend millions and billions of money to build all year, and then on one day during Holy Week, around midnight, they BURN all of them! Yes they burn, and that is precisely why we went. Some people call them floats, but really they are made from paper mache and a wooden frame, and they are hollow on the inside. The sizes vary between really extravagant and large and smaller but still intricate. The one with the genie is the one that I watched burn, and we waited in the crowd for about five hours before it burned. There is also a picture below of the crowds around where I was standing, and just from looking at the picture, you can imagine how sardinish we felt. Also below you can see a picture of the little girl in a typical Semana Santa dress; there were lots of little girls and older women dressed like this for the processions throughout the day, and I just happened to get a good picture of her before she walked past.
The picture above of the circlish looking things are churros. The way this stand made them was kind of like squeezing frosting out of a cake decorating tube to form a ring and then it fries in the oil. Below are some pictures of the sculptures burning, and as you can tell they were pretty intense. We were probably about a football field away from the fire, but it still felt like we were standing right next to it.
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