La mejor noche en Alicante

The first fountain

What started off as an ordinary night, surprisingly turned into a pretty amazing one. After being cooped up in the house all night working on homework I decided I wanted to go on a walk. Alicante is beautiful at night. The city has many water features, and at night they are usually very colorful. Jamie and I walked towards the beach and on the way there we got a little sidetracked. First, we stopped at some fountains right down the street to take pictures. Then we began taking more pictures of us and the fountains. We even managed to get some pretty sweet jumping pics.

Almost Jamie's dress

We walked down towards the beach and on the way there is a ton of wedding dress shops. Of course we love to look, so we spent about 20 minutes taking pictures of the dresses. The dresses are not typical wedding dresses; they have excellent detail, and sometimes unique styles. It was fun to critique them. Jamie began telling me about the wedding dress she has imagined for herself and her beach wedding. As we approach the last shop we could not believe the dress in the window. It was beautiful, and just like Jamie’s dream dress (with a few alterations of course). We both kind of teared up a little bit. Haha, so what we are girls.

As we headed towards the beach, we saw another beautiful fountain. Of course we stopped to take pictures. Being on our wedding dress high, the park looked like a beautiful place for someone to propose. It looked like it was straight out of a fairy tale. It had these great gigantic trees that on our walking tour, Larissa (our tour guide) said they have been there so long that their root system has grown out of the ground.

One of the trees in the
fairy tale park

We finally made it to the water and it was awesome seeing the sea at night. It somehow feels smaller when it is dark. I had fun twirling in the water and walking in it. Now, on the beach they have lounge chairs you can use. At night they stack them up. In front of one of the stacks there were some boys who were calling me and Jamie, however being dark we could not see them. So I did what I do best, ignore them and keep walking.

We started heading home after that thinking our walk wasn’t going to last as long as it did. We turned the corner into a smaller street and we got about half way down before we heard someone calling. I quickly glance and turn around to keep walking. Jamie and I were sure it was just another guy trying to get our attention, and it was. However, Jamie turned around again and saw that it was Shane, another USAC student. He told us that he was looking for the club for salsa dancing, and he could not find it. We of course had no idea what he was looking for, but we decided without anything better to do we would help him find it. After asking for directions from about five people, we finally were across the street when I randomly looked across the street and said, “Oh, it is right there!” We started talking to the student at the door and he said they needed 10 people for salsa dancing and they only had 6. Now, Jamie and I were not planning on staying, but they only had 6 people! It ended up being a blast! There was no one there, so we got to dance and act like fools. When we actually started salsa dancing I was horrible! We ended up meeting some fun people and talked with them a little while after they stopped the dancing. There was one girl from Ireland and one from Germany. Finally Jamie and I headed home. Our “walk” ended up being window shopping, beach playing and salsa dancing. Best night here so far by far!

The fountain in the fairy tale park