Daddy's gone, mice will play

(From Nathan) Spain is very boring. The only fun things we do is go to parks, go to the pool, play cards, and play on my iPhone, and eat out. The food's yummy here except the tomato sauce.

(From Nora) Today we went to a park and it's really near our school, so we can go there after school sometimes. Me and Nathan played a game where we could transform into anything we wanted, kind of like Pokemon. We had virtual pets that had lots of powers like us, and we each had battle suits. Nathan chose that his was invisible, and we had symbols.

We also went to a cool cafe (NB from HCH: well, it was Tony Roma's) for lunch. It had an English menu and at the end they gave us a balloon, a pencil sharpener and a pencil and eraser. I got a burger and fries, and they also gave us vanilla ice cream. We could have also chosen cake, which is called "Tarta" here.

On the walk up to the park, me and Nathan talked a lot about the virtual game, so it felt much, much, much shorter then I had imagined.

Last night at the pool I swam until Clara said there was enough kids to play games. So we played "jungle speed" and there was a thing in the middle and you had 1/4th of the deck because there were 4 players. And there were different shades and a card that's all gray and a card that's different colors. If you had the same shape as another person, then you needed to grab the thing in the middle. If you did, you get all their cards, If they did, they get all your cards. And in the first one, the Spanish boy won, and after that we played hide and seek for awhile and did running races and played in the pool again. My friend Bella, who also speaks English, played jump rope. Then played soccer until the ball fell into the school, then we jump roped a bit more. And then this girl, her name was Lalia and she also spoke English and Spanish, and we played with her. And then a couple kids left and we played hide and seek, just the four of us--Spanish boy, Bella, Lalia and me. And we played until it was time to go upstairs for dinner. Dinner was eggs, pasta, bread and apple. And then we watched a Fetch and then I got to read on the kindle for a couple minutes, then did math problems, and then fell asleep. (NB from HCH: Not exactly--it took her an hour).

(From Mommie) First trip to the school tomorrow to buy uniforms and learn the schedule. Jon's stuck in the UK with a flat tire. Will he make it, or will Mommie have to fend alone? Tune in tomorrow....