a cheese steak would be nice...

Well, it was a pretty good night. The boys woke up from their naps refreshed, smiling, and ready to go. They were in good moods, even though Andres was stinky, so after I changed him, we laid on the bed for a little bit, just resting. Mami and Shirley came back after a fun time at the pool, so Shirley and the boys decided it would be fun to watch a video for a little bit before we went to get pizza. So we did leave a little earlier to get the pizza, and we found it with no problem and ordered with no problem. Everyone seemed to enjoy the meal, even though the pizza is far from extraordinary and even far from ordinary. It did the trick, even if it wasn't east coast pizza...which for my money is the best in the world. Ohhh Illiano's...how I miss you! How I miss cheese steaks from the Sandwich Mill! I better stop or I will lose my mind.

After the pizza, we walked for a little bit on the golf course. The kids wanted to see the pond and kinda/sorta wanted to play in one of the sand traps. Of course that was off limits, so we just went to the pond where Janine spotted a King Fisher of some kind...bird watchers, stay tuned, we will try to figure it out...in a tree next to a million mosquitos. It was fun to watch the bird for a bit, even the boys had no idea what we were doing and it was quite obvious that the bird was annoyed. After this trip we decided to begin the long march uphill to look for ice cream.

The trek for ice cream was again a bust. For some reason it has been closed much of the week, although we will one day get some again. I was even going to get some tonight, which is a rarity for me (what with the lactose irritability and all). We decided to just head back to the room and to try to run out some of the boys' energy on the way. They had fine running up and down a ramp and being swung around by either Mami or Papi. Shirley saw the fun and got in on the action, too. It was fun for everyone, although neither of the boys like being thrown high in the air yet...yet. They will sometime. Probably when they are Shirley's size. She likes to be thrown in the air, but is almost to the point of being too big for it now. But tonight was fun, and she did get thrown in the air and spun around until we were both dizzy and walking crooked.

In the room, the kid played contently while I relaxed. Janine gave them little things to do to keep them busy, and we were actually able to watch most of Scrubs and some of Seinfeld for a little while. Emmanuelle called while we were relaxing and let us know that we have plans for Sunday afternoon. She also told us that her daughter was released from the hospital and was given a vaccination for whatever it was she had (Emmanuelle's description was lost in translation). We were happy to hear that she is on the road to recovery. So we look forward to going to a village and walking around on Sunday afternoon. We really need to get out of here, as this place can make one quite stir crazy. There is supposed to be a big swim meet here this weekend after last weekend's tennis tournament and wedding, so we don't really want to deal with all that nonsense. We'll see what we end up doing.

Anyhow, Janine is waiting to get on the computer, so I better get going. It has been a good night and hopefully we will top it off with good sleep. Thanks for the words of encouragement, and I hope to hear from you all again soon.

Buenas Noches.