Slow and Steady Wins The Race

Today... where do I begin with today. Let's seeeee.... I woke up and got dressed. At breakfast, I learned that we would be spending the day (and the night) in Port Aventura, the theme part in Tarragona. I wouldn't say I was fired up about being at a theme park with 6 children, but there was no turning back.

Eva's friends and their kids (Guillermo, Isabel y Laura) are in town from Madrid and they are staying at Eva and Francesc's house in town for five days. We ate lunch together (Canejo - aka buggs bunny) today and they all joined us on our adventure to the theme park. It was nice having them there because it meant that everyone spoke Spanish the entire day.

At the theme park we saw a show with a ton of exotic birds, a show completely centered around bubbles, and I rode a ride that accelerates from 0 to 135 km in 3 seconds (I did the math, it's about 84mph). It was the scariest ride of life. Other than that we moved at a turtle's pace around the park.

We ate in the "Mexico" of the theme park and I had a couple empanadas which they mistakenly dubbed "quesadillas." If that doesn't prove how little Spain and Mexico have in common, I don't know what does. There is a distinct difference. I hear they kill in Downey over those type of mistakes.

I had fun today... Eva's friends were really nice people and great with the kids as well, but it was about 3 hours too long for me. Not gonna lie. My feet hurt, I swear it was the hottest day of the year, and the empanadas gave me indigestion. TMI?

It proved to be too long for the kids too. We left at about 12:30am or so. Jordina and Isabel were fast asleep in the twin stroller. We stayed that late to see the fireworks. Let's just say there were five fireworks. Total. The DBAP (Durham Bulls Athletic Park) puts Port Aventura's firework display to shame. I decided instead to describe them as "try-erworks" aloud, but no one got the joke.

All I could think was how I could use a beverage... a strong adult beverage. But all of these glitches in the day actually kept me laughing. The kids were adorable, the rides were fun, and we checked another thing off of the to-do list (it was right behind 'try rabbit').