Muchos fotos con mucho fun

Nahima woke the whole house up early because this is the day we promised to go to the "toboganes" or water park. The morning was totally overcast and I thought with these cold nights and no sun it would be too cold. Actually, the water was good and the only "chilly" was from the breeze coming off the bay when you got out. It cleared up nicely about 1PM. Nahima shivered most of the day but always wanted someone else to go back in with her.

I went down both of those slides below with Nahima on my lap and she had fun but didn't want to do it again. Just "swimming" was her thing which was actually crawling in the shallow water. Euriel even came with us on this which is rare and Yare as well.  We picked up a chicken dinner at Caliman and extra Coke and some beer. We'll go more often when the summer temperatures arrive. But I will have my pool up again with no admission .... so we'll see.

From our table

Yep ... that's me with Nahima in my lap

Mom Lorena and Nahima in big pool

Neighbor and Nahima after coming down the slide

Nahima making waves

Other neighbor coming off the big water slide

Throw, Row, Tow, Go

At least that was our motto when I became a Senior Lifeguard at our Mercer Island Beach Club. It only came to mind but in this case none of it applied. The La Aurora Water Park is a great place to spend the day except that they have absolutely no security. No one to calm the teenagers down when they start acting crazy and no one to watch small kids that can't touch bottom.

I had just walked up to the Tobogan pool where all the bodies get dumped from two large slides and at the far end noticed a very young girl, maybe 4, swimming with water wings. That was amazing enough but the next thing I know she took off the wings and pushed off the ladder to the middle of the pool. She soon discovered she could kinda stay afloat but couldn't move back to the ladder. Just as she started to panic I jumped in and walked her over to the ladder. Nobody noticed including the 6 year boy she was playing with. Of course you don't get a thank you from a 4 year old and I'm not sure she even fully realized what just happened. Back on went the water wings and she was in again. I explained the situation to an older sister who was sitting at the "family" table but I never saw their parents.

Our story for the day was we found a nice place in the shade, a big bowl of ceviche de camaron, cubeta of Estrella and lots of playing with the kids. Nahima (3 years) was first afraid of the kiddy pool but an hour later was in every pool with help of sister or mom. Yari (10 years) is very cautious and couldn't be talked into going down the big water slides even when some girl friends were doing it. First time for them and I haven't been in a few years. Nahima's comment at the end of the day was -- "No mas playa, toboganes mejor".

Kiddy pool from our table

Kids and new found friends

Kids water slides

Pool at the bottom of the big slides

No water park today

Well that was our plan until the thunder, lightening and rain came about 9 this morning.  It was going to be a relief from the heat and a first time for the neighbor kids.   We have one more week of school vacation along with next weekend so we'll see.  The kids really should experience the water park La Aurora on the road to Barra de Navidad and any Sunday will work.

My dog was curled up outside my bedroom door and I remembered that the thunder scares her so I opened up the bodega where she spent the last couple  of hours.   It's calmed down now but still don't think we'll see the sun today with that big red blob on the weather radar.   Sure is fresh and cool after the rain.

I think it's a good day to cook something different