So we left our beautiful place close to Marbella and headed to a new one just an hour away. That ended up not being a very nice place. The apartment looked nice but the place itself was kind of run down and it just felt like a shady place. In addition to that it was pouring rain the whole time so it was a little hard to pack and unpack the car without everything getting soaked (and it did). On the bright side, the apartment was big and it had a jacuzzi bathtub that me and the boys enjoyed. It was so nice and relaxing!!
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| Trying to get from a restaurant to the car in the rain |
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| We were all soaked from walking from the car to the apartment. Driving up to our hotel was like driving upstream in a small river! |
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| We took the time to visit a Asian market while the weather was bad and guess what I found... Swedish Cider!!! :-) |
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| After one day we realized that we had two umbrellas in the car. Dah!! |
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| The shady hotel had a vending machine with hot food!! :-/ |
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| Not even umbrellas could keep us dry in the heavy rain |
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| Heavy clouds over the mountains |
We are now in a very cute but fairly big town called Benalmádena. The
hotel is nice and quite with nice staff. We have now stayed here two
night and will stay another one as well. After that we are
heading back to Roquestas de Mar where we have rented an apartment for
several weeks!!! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Practicing tracing and writing while pappa in having his class in the hotel room |
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| And Gabriel just wants to go to the pool, it is like a magnet! |
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| Trying out the play dough form the Asian market |
Today we went "downtown" (our hotel is a little off) to do laundry. We did clean at the last place but it never dried and being wet in a bag for several hours did not make them smell nice so they needed another wash. I took the chance to wash all the "clean" clothes as well who just got soaked in the rain so now we have a nice big pile of clothes (on the bed to take care of :-).
While looking for the laundry place we found a very nice park next to it.
With lots of wild chickens and other birds, cacti (cactus in plural)
garden and great playgrounds (made in Sweden by HAGS, I had no idea they
were so popular!) We had a good time there!
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| Can you find Marlee and Noah? |
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| Strange art in the park. Not sure if I like it or if it is just creepy. |
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| - Wanna be my friend? |
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| Not a cactus but very nice smelling |
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| So cool! |
After getting home Alex did work and me and the boys hang out outside (pool and story telling) before walking to a near by supermarket. A lot of people here drive a little crazy BUT most of them are really good at stopping and letting a mamma with three boys cross the street, even when there is no crosswalk!
The supermarket was a "surprise". First thing I looked at was a molded loaf of bread which did not give me a great impression. After a few minutes the owners' (Asian) little daughter (Noah's age) came running screaming "baby!!" and started petting Gabriel. She kept following us around the store and was kind of pushy. Noah got scared and walked very close to me. After a while even Marlee got uncomfortable with her when she was chasing him with a plastic stick. I tried to tell him to just stand still so that she would understand that he did not want to be chased since we could not communicate with her but it was hard. And her parents did not do anything!? Just a very strange situation! I have never seen Marlee being bothered, almost scared, by someone like that before!
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