We found a fresh smoothie place! The little chickadees slurped em down in record time! Ooh it was so good to have some fresh fruit smoothie again. No more bread. No more pasta. No more cheese. FRUIT (fresh not stuffed in some sugar glazed pastry)!
After smoothies we walked into this fun shop called Tiger which sells all sorts of quirky kitchen and party stuff. The girls dressed themselves up and then danced around the store. They are too much.
Then we sat down for a minute in the square where Sabi claimed the water as hers and Sophie tried cleverly to steal it several times. Sabi sat there holding it chanting her favorite words “Mine” and “NO”. You can see her “No” face in one of the photos below. Drama queen. I think if memory serves me right, Sophie finally got the water and Sabi flipped out. We left the square.
Off to the park we went. Sabi fell asleep along the way and when we got there Sophie made a little buddy named Victoria. Will was pushing Sophie on the swings and the little girl was on the swings next to them. When Sabi woke up I walked over with her and Will introduced me to Sophie’s new friend “Victorio”. Yes, he thought the girl said Victorio and was boy. Not trusting his instinct I asked her what her name was again and low and behold, VictoriA. A. Will. VictoriA! He is a she not a he. Will was thankful i figured out the correction before he put his foot in his mouth anymore. He was also thankful that her English was very limited. She was 9 years old and learned some english in school but spoke about as much english as Sophie does Spanish. The two girls had a blast together playing chase, and saving each other on the slide. Sabi was busy on the swing with Dada but then ran over and Sophie quickly put her arm around her and introduced her to her new friend. Victoria was super sweet to Sabs and it was really cute to watch. Later that night before bed I told Sophie that if she wants to play chase with her friends or climb or whatever, and Sabi can’t do it that it is ok to tell me and I will keep Sab busy so she can play. Sophie said no. She said her friend liked Sab and Sab was being a little shy so she wanted to stay with her. Sweet thing.
Also, before we left for the park i asked Sophie if she wanted to go after 3pm b/c the kids will be off from school and all be there to play. She said no. She wants to go before then b/c she wants to play with Sabs and if all the big kids are there Sabs might be sad b/c she wouldn’t have any friends. When we got to the park Sabs was sleeping and Sophie kept asking if she could wake her b/c she wants to play with her. There were kids running around she could play with but she wanted Sabs to wake up and play too. It is so beautiful.
On the walk home we passed a fountain with benches all around it. Sophie said, “Hey guys, you want to stop here and relax. Look. It looks like a great place to relax”. How could we say no. We went into the little park and there were a bunch of wish flowers in the grass so Sophie and Sabs ran around picking and blowing them. Sophie was belting out some disney princess songs and rolling in the grass. Sabs followed along.
On the way home we stopped into the Lindt store and Sophie tried her very first hot chocolate. It was literally like a liquid chocolate bar. I told her that future hot chocolates are only downhill from this one. I dont think the powder kind would cut it. This was a hot, liquid chocolate bar as you can see from her face.
Here is some more random street art we saw on our journey
