What a crazy weather day here. It was chilly this morning. Boys were up early.
We played on the beach for a little bit, no sunrise because of the clouds.
Kids made a maze in the sand and we chased each other thru it. Basically a path - made for a good little work out.
We decided to walk north around the big pier and try to guess when we were getting close to the restaurant we wanted to have breakfast at.
After walking about 150 yards, I told the kids - Mama needs to go back, I am going to be stripping down soon if I don't go back and change into shorts and a T. So Carlie and I headed back to leave our sweatshirts & change into 'warm' weather clothes--we never regretted it! I didn't get half way home and ran into a man I know walking his 2 pugs on the beach. Sergio, team doctor of the Caballeros and father of Gustavo, one of our favorite buds here.
It's amazing, as hard as it is to believe, I rarely leave here and not run into someone I know! No kidding!
Anyway - we walked about 20 or more blocks and headed inland thru hotel las palapas. Very cool place, I highly recommend it. Each hotel room is it's own palapa. So they have a limit of 4 per room. It is not an all inclusive. Here is the website if you want to check it out. laspalapas.com
Just so happened, that at the end of the long driveway was exactly where we wanted to be.
How lucky is that??
The French bakery, Chez Celine that Maca had taken my mom and I to on Wednesday. It was very busy so we gave our name to the tall blonde french man who owns the place and took a seat on the very cool blue bench.
The boys had omelets (alexander ate his and half of bens), we all had OJ, hot mint tea & lots of bread with banana jelly.
We enjoyed the different walks of life and nationalities. The kids are really starting to notice different cultures, how they dress and their behaviors. Alexander said, all French women smoke...He also mentioned how different people were dressed. This place pulls all kinds. There were 6 dogs there - six. Several of which were lap dogs and very obviously, never get left at home or in the back yard to run and bark at joggers or KU students headed to and from class.
From there we headed back down 5th Avenue and slowly worked our way South going in and out of shops. It was fun, we hadn't planned to shop on the way home and normally, not all of us want to do that at the same time so this worked out well. We had heard there was a kite store and we really wanted to get a kite to fly. Directly across from the Senor Frogs store, there it was, 'Kiteplayadelcarmen' or something like that - whatever the name was, the word KITE was the first word in the name.
We go in, looking for a kite but didn't see any.
Ben, of course, had to go to the bathroom, the Senor Frog store said they were out of water......so we went back to the kite store, where Bo was still chatting away with the gal who worked there.
They are going thru a catalog on the counter.....
So, I observed and realized that neither had any idea what the other was saying. The lady picked up her cell phone and I could understand, Nino, playa, jugar ...... and she hands the phone to alexander. She must have realized that she wasn't understanding what he was asking her for.
Me, the basic, rational thinker I am, wonders, HOW CAN YOU WORK AT A STORE THAT THE FIRST WORD IN THE NAME OF THE STORE IS KITE AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A FREAKING KITE IS????????
Alexander can see it in my face what I am thinking and he calms me, "Mom, there are different kinds of kites and she just doesn't know which kind I am talking about......" Whatever - I say!
Alexander is trying to use the 2 words he knows in spanish, now on a cell phone, Ben is doing what Ben always does after we eat and have left the restaurant with the nice clean bathroom only to have to do his business 3 minutes later swearing that he didn't know he was going to have to go when we left the restaurant.....Lucky, the nice non-english speaking lady at the KITE store let ben into this tiny little closet with a toilet in it to do what Ben always does after we eat......
Carlie is trying as hard as she can to find something she wants and I am thinking- how am I going to get out of this KITE store???
Ben, are you done? Not yet Mama.
Are you OK, yes - Did you have an accident? No
whew
Alexander is on the phone for a LONG time, Long enough for me to get a note pad from behind the counter and draw a picture of a KITE - you know, stick person, long string, diamond with a tail...
She says OHHHHH a cometa!!
By this time, I have taken care of ben and carlie is in the closet......I hand ben the empty roll of toilet paper and tell him, go show this to the lady.......
There are lots of things in this closet we are crammed into but I see nothing that looks like toilet paper or nothing that can do the job that toilet paper does.
She comes to the door and says something in Spanish of course and I do understand, NO.
So - - the details of this I will leave out but I must say, I am so clever.
Carlie and I come out of the closet, I close the closet door and hanging right there on the closet door.............
A KITE! 2 actually!
By this time, the last thing I want is a $25usd kite so I say, Muchas Gracias Senora, Muchas Gracias and out the door we go. My 3 ducks straggling behind me wondering why we aren't leaving with a cometa!
I look at my phone and am shocked that it's 5 til 1pm. Where has this day gone, we just had breakfast, I look up and there before me is a sports bar. WOOHOO KU basketball in 5 minutes.
In we go to the EZ (short for End Zone) and get to watch the entire KU game and during half time the K-State game on a huge huge TV. Major Score for Mama!
The rest of our walk home was uneventful, kids were jacking around with each other - I was in and out of a few stores, trying to find Carlie a 1 piece swim suit since they start swimming at school on Monday.
Back home, I tuck everyone in for naps and head out to pick up laundry. The Lavanderia is closed on Sunday and all of our school uniforms are there, clean hopefully - I have been worried I am going to forget them then, have to deal with that on Monday morning. Maca called just as I was walking across the bridge over our pool - my phone doesn't work in our condo and she had been trying to call me 'for 2 hours'. Nacho had something come up and couldn't do the sleep over, another whew - the boys were way too tired for that tonight.
Half way to the Lavanderia, a grey truck stops and backs up on the street - it's Irene. Mom of Chicken Little and Ryan - 2 of the Caballeros who stayed with us in KS.
See - I really can't leave my house with out seeing someone I know! It's true!
It sprinkled here on and off all evening. We never left the condo again except to sit on our patio with blankets, visit about our week, the upcoming week and my expectations of the kids and things I need them to do. Ben was disappointed we didn't go for Churros. I was disappointed I didn't get a glimpse of the Senor Frog Dancers on 5th Avenue.
As we were having our "Team Meeting" Carlie cried that she misses Glitter and Miss Fewins; Alexander cried that he missed the Spelling Bee and will miss the Talent Show. And Ben misses his bike and is sad he cannot remember the names of his new friends here from his class. I again suggested, Call them all ChaChi.
As I was getting Carlie snuggled into bed, I notice water coming down the wall of our condo....
dripping from the ceiling too...... on the floor, bed wet, pillow wet.....just missed my computer by about a millimeter - - ugh!
I will deal with that later - hopefully not a big deal??!!
Looking forward to tomorrow!
Adios
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