Today, Willa turned 11. This small hotel we are in, (we take up about half the beds available) the owner gave Willa a banana split. I think that may well have been her first banana split of her life. One of the three ice cream scoops had quite a unique taste, it wasn´t citrus, but that is about as close a description as I can give, besides the color which was orangish, and for those who know the color of the inside of a papaya, that was exactly the shade of orange.
The kids get breaks from their travels by coming to the internet cafe to connect with that world (as I do too!) Cost here is $1 per hour, so this is relatively cheap entertainment for all of us. Both kids also have been going through books like mad. Willa read a 500 page book in the first week, the second book of the series is about 700 pages and the third is close to 800, both of which Jessica just brought her from the states. At her current rate, I have little hope this next 1500 pages will last the trip! Unfortunately, Tias has not yet found a book around here to take up since he also read a similarly long book the first week (uin fact, two other books to boot!) and the next in his series is not yet published.
The three big girls just popped into this internet cafe to tell us they have returned from the market and if we want lunch, we need to vamos! Once again, while I had plans to describe the Christmas parades we saw, that must wait! Hasta Luego!
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Thank you for the wonderful descriptions of waterfalls and dog packs and midieval alleys. Sounds like a fun trip and I hope the natives are treating you well. Happy Birthday Willa.
ReplyDeleteMore of the usual up here - we will be getting about a foot of snow tonight and then more Saturday with below zero temps to follow. At least we can imagine warm days in Antiqua. It's the last day of school tomorrow, then Anne and I are headed to Michigan for a week. All appeared to be normal around the barn last weekend.
Happy Trails, Gereon and Anne