Getting up bright and early, JP took the dogs down to the beach and let them run around a bit.

This can always be a little risky, as Darth, a Shiba Inu with a mind of his own, is wicked smart, and might decide to not come back.

JP has done this on a beach a few times with mixed results (though he’s always managed to get Darth back, it’s a gambit). Armed with a bag of treats, and having worked a lot to get Darth to come when called, it was a fun time watching the sun come up while running near the waves.

After breakfast, JP brought the AAs back to the beach to look for more sea glass. Slathered up in sun block, and covered by long sleeves, hats, and other protective gear, we had a nice, relaxing day at the beach.

Shame is was only 15c.

And windy

Brrrr

Back to the apartment, we cleaned up, packed some snacks, and got in the van to drive to Málaga.

Given that it’s only 30ish minutes away, the drive was easy, until the very end, where you are on S-turns through neighborhoods, and everyone is on your bumper.

Beautiful but scary.

We got into the city and found a garage to park the car. Being the first time we valeted the car, of course, JP walked away with the keys in his pocket (he unfortunately does this a bit too often), and the valet called the office because the car gets angry and beeps a lot (R2D2-style cussing) and stops working if the key isn’t present 😦

The garage is miraculously close to the kosher restaurant (right next store). Arriving just before closing (we had 45 minutes to spare), we picked up food for dinner. Talking with the owners, a lovely brother and sister from Venezuela, we learned about the community, their history in Spain, and the neighborhood.

After we got our food, we headed out onto the main streets of Málaga, looking for some boba. We also found a k-pop star or 2 (maybe?)

Walking back towards the car, we stopped in a little mall, and lo and behold, there was a piano. But the sign on it said only play if you’ve talked to management.

Sadly the AAs aren’t keen on JP breaking the rules, so he skipped playing, and they instead walked the beautiful streets of Málaga, picking oranges off the trees right along the street

That’s legit a thing here.

Until today, nobody (amongst the 3 of us) could say we’d ever been orange picking.

Now we can!

What an adventure!

Strolling through the rambla, JP spotted a store called Stradavarius (which is the name of a well known violin maker who lived in the 17th & 18th centuries). JP was so excited, he willingly offered to go into a makeup store if he could go into Stradavarius.

Sadly, it turns out, this was not a music store, but a clothing store.

False advertising!

The AAs got to go into a few makeup stores and look around. Nobody stocked Taylor Swift’s makeup (phew!) and we carried on.

Traversing through a lot of gorgeous side streets, past a ton of shops, we watched a kitty walk through the old Roman amphitheater.

Enough walking and talking, we got back to the car, drove home, cleaned up, and watched Zootopia before passing out.

Tomorrow is our drive back home, so we’re crashing a little early tonight.

¡Buenas noches!

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Stinky onion!

Back in the stinky onion, Elyce had a doctors appointment and dragged Vered with her. Such a wonderful mother she is. Though nothing more exciting than a normal G.I. follow up, we were going from there to the suburbs to spend time with family. Not that you asked, but Elyce got the all clear on the G.I. front (except getting medications is another issue altogether).

Here’s to hoping we will be able to order it today. Fingers crossed, but low expectations.

New word: VI (for Vered and I)

VI grabbed a drink from Tropical Smoothie, and Vered’s straw decided it needed blow a bubble.

(Ok, VI sounds dumb, no more VI).

Via the Metra, we got out to the southern burbs to spend time with Mayrav, my parents (Bubbie & Zadie), and my brother (Uncle) and my niece (cousin Zoe). Sadly my sister-in-law (Aunt Becky) was not feeling well so we didn’t get to hug her.

We had a lovely time and just like everything else already these past few days, didn’t take many photos. But what we did take (I might get a little bit of wrath from some family, but at least you made it on the blog) 🙂 …. Sorry, not sorry, I had to post these it’s not often we capture hilarious images of our parents.

Zaydie was excited.

Bubbie was excited as well

Zoe and Josh were glad to hang as well

After shopping, we made our way back to the city and crashed, ready for another day!