This morning we got a slow start and had a leisurely breakfast. My lower back has been hurting, so Aliya and I went to a shop that sold various health and beauty aids, and purchased some patches that were supposed to help with pain. The only ingredient I can make out on the list on the package is cayenne pepper. Hmmm…
I wore a patch all day and I do feel a little better tonight. Elizabeth took the entire clan to swim at the Hotel Aldea while I stayed home and wrote an article that had unexpectedly appeared on my to-do list, and I even snuck in a nap. We hadn’t done any dinner shopping so we decided to go out for dinner. The restaurant we were originally headed to was closed, so we ended up at Mama Mia, which was decent – the kids really liked the pizza. After dinner we walked up to the square for helado, and got caught in our first downpour which stayed with us all the way home. Luckily we had brought our rain coats.
Lesson for the day – flip-flops are not appropriate footwear when a rainstorm is threatening. The evening ended with a fireworks show viewed from the roof terrace (accompanied by lightning and enthusiastic church-bell-ringing) and now everyone is in bed and all I can hear are the crickets chirping. Ahhhhh…
Here are a few photos from today.
Rain clouds threatening on the way to dinner:
A rainbow!
Las tres amigas – I told them to try to look like they were having fun:
This is their “abnormal” look:
Our end of the table…my sangria seemed so tiny in comparison to Elizabeth’s vat of strawberry margarita:
And a few from the pool, which Aliya sent home to make sure I didn’t feel left out:
Elizabeth, Chloe, and Hannah only have 5 more days in SMA, so we’re going to make the best of their remaining time. Ben is really excited to join us next Saturday for the last two weeks of our trip!