Sesame Street Live

Waiting for the show to start!

One of the perks of being stationed overseas is that we get some pretty cool shows over here for free. A few months ago we took the girls to see The Imagination Movers, which was sponsored by MWR on base. Yesterday the USO brought Sesame Street Live to town! The girls were so excited and couldn't wait. It's all they have been talking about. The show was great, Lily danced the whole time and was so excited to touch Cookie Monster's hand. Rebecca loved it too, although she is still a little shy around characters so she wouldn't put her hand out. They even got a cool Elmo light up toy to bring home...all for free!

Waving to Cookie Monster,
her favorite!

After the show we went out for an early dinner. For those of you living here, I'm sure you've heard of Blanca Paloma, the delicious Italian restaurant in Puerto Sherry. It's actually only a 5 minute walk from our house so we go here a lot. However, yesterday we decided to try the other Blanco Paloma...located just off of 491. Luckily they were open, they open at 1:00 in the summer and stay open until spanish dinner time. This was perfect for us because we went at 4:00, right when everything is closed for siesta. The food was delicious...I would say better then Puerto Sherry, although you don't get the view of the beach. We didn't mind though because it was close to 100 degrees and we ate inside in the air conditioning.

It was a great afternoon, we missed Daddy though, who's still in Germany.

Adios.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Making me pictures

Sometimes being a military spouse is hard...like on your birthday when your husband is away...again. I think Eric has missed at least three or four of my birthdays in the almost ten years that we've been married. It seems that work always sends him away for something for a week in August and it always falls on my birthday. Lucky for me, I have made some really great friends in Spain who invited me and the girls to brunch in the morning and then over to their house for dinner. 

Rebecca said we needed to have a
 treat after swimming for my birthday!

Even luckier for me is that I got to spend the day with my two girls. Seeing how excited Rebecca was for my birthday made it all worth it. Every second she got she wished me a happy birthday and gave me hugs and kisses. Lily didn't want to be out done so she had to jump in on the hugs and kisses too. They loved going to brunch with our friends and then hanging out at the pool the rest of the day with me. We had such a wonderful, relaxing day. 

Lily enjoying her treat.

I'm very grateful that Eric is only away for a week this time. I realize that some families are missing their loved ones for much longer. It's hard being away from family and then having your spouse not be home either. 

Leading up to yesterday I was dreading my birthday but it turned out to be a great day. I feel very blessed that we have made such good friends while here in Spain. It's nice to have people to spend your birthday with when you can't be with your family.

National Night Out

Tonight the Rota Naval Base was holding the National Night Out event. It's an event held the first Tuesday in August across America to raise community and police awareness. I took the kids to see what it was all about on base. The event started with a parade, which the kids loved because they got candy thrown to them! Afterwards, they got to play in bouncy houses, meet McGruff the crime dog and Sparky, check out a fire truck and few other things. Other than us all being really hot it was a lot of fun. The kids loved playing with their friends and I didn't have to cook dinner because hotdogs and hamburgers were served!

Beach Day

We are so lucky to live right near the beach...it's only a 5 minute walk! Everything in Spain is closed on Sunday's, except for restaurants so we are usually looking for something to do to get out of the house. Lucky for us, we can head to the beach in the summer. There are a lot of beaches in Rota and El Puerto de Santa Maria. Parking is limited once they start to fill up so we have just been going to the beach near our house. It's called Playa de la Muralla in Puerto. We try and get up and get going so we can get to the beach by 10:00...when it's still pretty empty. The Spanish sleep in so the beach doesn't start to fill up until around 1:00...when we are ready to leave. It's perfect because we can pick out the spot we want and the kids can play without too many people being around. By the time we leave the beach is packed. Their are umbrellas everywhere and it's like a maze trying to leave the beach.

Here are some pictures from our beach day!