quito - part 4 - casablanca

Just back from an awesome 5 days at the beach in Casablanca. Boy, did a certain short someone ever enjoy herself. She ate her way through every delicious food the cook made for her/us (patacones, ceviche de camarones, dorado a la plancha, bolones de verde, empanadas de verde to name a few), didn't get sick once (except for the windy drive back to town - then she had a nasty bout of carsickness which I can totally understand), drank batidos (shakes) of every kind of fruit imaginable on the beach, rolled in the sand, shouted "I coming!" to the waves as she splashed in the ocean, "swam" in the pool (more like floated), and had a popsicle a day (it was the beach after all - healthy eating goes out the window) in flavors like taxo, mora (a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry) and coco (coconut). She actually cried when we were leaving and I can't say as I blame her at all. It was awesome and we can't wait to go back next year (hopefully with Papa).

the snacking (and singing) started early in the car ride - munching on some chifles

post-nap - ready for an afternoon dip in the pool.

we went into town (Atacames) almost every day. our first full day we stopped off and got Emi some water shoes. She sat down at the stall and modeled them for all the passers-by. (note also cell phone purchased by A - we now own 2 of them - most annoying music EVER!)

first vacay popsicle - taxo flavored (can't quite decribe what taxo tastes like other than yummy).

enjoying a batido de coco on the beach - please note the sand coating the child's face - it looked like she was a powdered donut she had so much sand all over her.

mora flavored popsicle. we chose to go with just the diaper for this popsicle for obvious reasons...

felicidad maxima

so i'm not real big on putting pictures of myself on the blog, let alone in a bikini, but it's the only pic i've got to show just how beautiful casablanca is... i mean, mountains and beach - the best! we spent ages floating around in the pool. thanks to A for her "expert" :) picture taking.

our "going out & hittin' the town" look - phone, glasses, cracker and keys required.

This week Emilia's the "estrella de la semana" (Star of the Week) student in her class at school which meant that I had to run out and actually print out (!) pictures of her for them to put on the bulletin board. Tomorrow she has to take in some special toys for like a "show & tell" and then on Thursday I have to go in and do an "activity" with her and her class - yikers.