Days 6 & 7 -- and then Jon's back!

The weekend passed pretty quietly. On Friday night there was an alarming car right beneath the kids' window -- terrified Seth and put Mommie right back in bed with him. Saturday it woke him up from his nap by alarming; we went downstairs to get its license plate number only to find the police already there towing it. Of course, they towed it only about 1/4 of a mile away to a dusty parking lot, but at least it's quieter at that distance. It was Seth's highlight of the weekend -- first thing he told Jon about when Jon arrived home.

Saturday Nora and Sara went off to the local amusement park, where they were delighted to find Nora met the height requirements for most of the rides. Nora again showed she has no fear -- went on everything. Meanwhile, the boys and I meandered around San Sebastian in the AM, and after nap took a nice walk in the park with their new scooter and balance bike.

Sunday we said goodbye to Sara (sniff) and waited for Jon to arrive home by cleaning the apartment and getting some fresh bread. After Jon came home, we went over to my cousin Mary's for a birthday party for her twins. The twins are soooo cute (blonde, fair, tall, with a sparkle in their eyes), and (miraculously) six young kids played happily with one another for a couple hours in a confined space.

Today we woke up to our first day of bad weather since we moved here. Windy and raining and, because we're close to the edge of the time zone, pitch black. The rain seems to have taken a break for the kids' walk to school, but we'll see how they fare if it starts back up by the end of the day; they walk about 20 minutes each way. We also need to figure out how to try our laundry -- dryers are uncommon here, and we are finding that the clothes don't dry well even when it's a regular fall (i.e., 65 and sunny) day. It's possible that the dryer rack will spend the winter in our kitchen.

In good news, the lice seem to be gone, and the iPhone has risen from the dead. And Jon is home!