This place is stunning! Imagine a huge park with Euro\Victorian buildings and cobblestone sidewalks that is surrounded by a canal - that is where we are staying for the next week. Our hotel is really nice, we are staying on the wing that has been recently updated so everything here is really modern and air conditioned (a vast improvement over the last hotel). Today we had breakfast here and set out to explore the island. To be fair, we covered the whole thing around the perimeter in about an hour or even a little less but have an idea of where we would like to go and really check out at a later time. Found a place for lunch, nap time for the little one then some more relaxed strolling around, had dinner at a fabulous place called Lucy's then wandered back to the room to put the little one (and mommy) to sleep. A few cool things about the island - there are tons of these really sweet\funny\beautiful bronze statues all over the place, even the locals come and take cheesy photos with them; there is an old church here, again just quaint and yet beautiful; oh yeah, according to John, a rather well known (most) reclusive country (ever) has their consulate here too. I wasn't sure I believed it until I saw it with my own eyes - unbelievable. For everyone who knows of my fascination with the unnamed reclusive country, you can imagine my reaction...
Yashu is doing really well all things considered. Today however, she took her usual tentative steps and then without thinking about it, kept going a little further and then a little further. She plopped down and stared at her legs with a look of utter disbelief like "Wait a second - these things work???" Then she looked mad, really mad, that she hasn't realized this before. While it was heartbreaking it was also incredibly endearing and even a little funny to watch her facial expressions. So now we know what we will be working on as she is very feisty and independent and now that she knows what she can be capable of, I fully believe that there will be no slowing down this freight train known as our daughter. Eating with her is a full contact sport. She gets so excited at every meal (much like her mommy) and shares her food - whether we want it or not, and usually whoever has her on their lap ends up with food in their hair, definitely lap, and sometimes even in our ears - but we also have never laughed so hard watching such a tiny person eat like she is an animal in the jungle!
We have been able to Skype with Frank almost every day but it doesn't make it much easier. I miss that little guy more than anything and held it together for the first few days but then one day I saw his handsome face and his big toothless grin and lost it. I can't wait to get home and squeeze him and love him and kiss him 8 million times...if he will let me :)
It was a rather low key day but totally what this family needed and we are so grateful that we went against the grain and chose to stay on the island where it is a bit slower paced on days like this when we need it most. Here are a few photos and hopefully I will have better adventures to share with you tomorrow.
xoxo - n.
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| View from our room |
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| Church |
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| Down one of the random streets |
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| One of the MANY statues |
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| Clips stayed in all of 5 minutes, but at least you can see her precious face for a moment |
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| Start of mealtime...sigh... |
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| Park that runs along the river |
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| Note the building to the right...John was not amused at my feeble attempts |
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| Another view from our room |
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| And one more just to make sure you really get a feel for it :) |
1 comment:
So glad you are enjoying the Island. Such fond memories of staying at the Victory. Your little girl is just beautiful!
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