Tobolandia!

We ventured off to Tobolandia today.  It is a huge water park here on the lake, where families from “Guad” (Guadalajara) come to cool off and play in the sun.   The boys have been begging since the day we got here to go to the water park, so we finally did it.  I gotta be honest that I didn’t anticipate liking it all that much.  Huge surprise people, it was so freaking much fun!   We played in the pools, rode on some the most incredible water slides and just really enjoyed the sun and water for the first time since arriving in the Chapala area, us boys were in heaven and Tracy had a blast also.   Andrew's first comment after the biggest and fastest Water slide was, "I can't wait to bring my cousin Alder here, he will love this place.

We took along with us our friend Ben’s daughter Sara and granddaughter Lila.  They are both from Denver also and Tracy has really hit it off with Sara.  They seem to have a ton in common and a lot to talk about and share.  It has been really nice for Tracy to have someone to shoot the ______ with and relate on the mommy front.  Oh, I forgot another cool part of the story.  We have been in touch with a family from Illinois since before we left Boulder.  They arrived last Saturday and finally got settled.  Well, I invited them to the park today and they showed up.   

The funny part was when Andrew and I were in the pool, I see a Caucasian man with two Caucasian girls around 6 and 10 years of age walking around and looking for someone.  I take a chance and yell out “David” and the man turns and calls out my name.  Andrew says to me “how did you know it was them Dad”?  I try to explain racial profiling and he just looks at me and says, “It was the two girls, right”.     

So, we hang out for a couple more hours and finally have to go, because we have an appointment to see another rental property at 3:00.  We head out and arrive at the property right at 3:00pm.  One of the Chiropractors from the other day owns the place and we met up with her to have a look.  The house is really nice as we tour through it, until we get to the second bedroom part.  You literally had to walk outside and up a set of stairs to the roof.  The kids room and bath would have been on top of the house.  Andrew came over to me, grabbed my arm and pleaded with me not to rent the house.  He felt that the set ups was not safe enough for Zach and he would miss being able to just crawl into our bed in the middle of the night.  Well, you guessed it; we didn’t rent it and the kids were both incredibly relieved.  Afterwards, we drove around the little town of San Antonio and headed to Wal-Mart for some bubbly water.  We have become addicted to “Agua con gas”, with a squeeze of fresh lime in it, thanks to Fred.  Picked up our loot from the store.  Seems we always walk out with 10 times more then we went in for.  Headed home, had dinner and took London for his evening walk in the neighborhood.  Kids were exhausted and both fell to sleep very quickly.  Another long day in paradise, what can I say?  Buenas noches a mis amigos