Mon 21 Feb 2005
Our Spanish Vacation, Day 4
Posted by Sandi Atherton under France, spain, vacation
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I can not boast too much about today’s happenings. I was inside the hotel room most of the day with 2 feverish kids. I sent Ken out to explore the city and find out how big it really was. He toured around the churches and visited the old Jewish center which he informed me was full of very narrow lanes. He said the city was huge and not to be done walking with kids which was our original plan before the fever bug hit us.
Ken returned around noon so he and Carissa went to the grocery store next to the hotel to pick up some stuff for a simple lunch. They returned with 3 full bags. Ken tends to go crazy with food shopping, especially in places we have’t been before. He loves to try different products and tastes. Like a cat bringing a dead mouse or bird back to its owner so proud of what it found, killed, and brought back. Ken had all kinds of goods which he hunted down. Three bags of chips, lunch meats, two types of bread, three types of drinks, and two varieties of cookies, basically more food than we could ever eat in the day. I guess I could look at the bright side and say he is a good provider, he thought of everyone’s likes.
By the afternoon, the kids were feeling better so we decided to get out and go for a drive. Ken wanted to visit a town that had Roman and Greek ruins. Because it was a bunch of rocks to me, I made the excuse to stay in the car with Sadie who had fallen asleep. I let Ken and the other two girls walk around looking at the area. After 30 minutes of a history lesson that Ken said Carissa was very interested in, she could not tell me anything that she had learned. She did however show me her favorite house which mind you, was just a outline of the walls. It was her favorite because it had once had a fountain in it and she found that an awesome fact. All of us toured a very small museum that housed some artifacts dug up in the area. Lots of coins, perfume bottles, jewelry, and pottery were in the collection. Next we went back outside and onto the Roman area. At the present it is only about 25% excavated but it was still an enormous place.
The wind was unbearable again today and Sadie just would not be put down due to the fact that she could not stand upright without her feet getting swapped out from under her.
We called it an early night and looked for a shopping area around our hotel. We had no such luck but the kids lucked out when we happened upon a McDonald’s. It was the first one we had really seen since arriving in Spain. It had an indoor play area and we decided to indulge the kids and give them a little bit of exercise.
I am not entirely sure how the folks in this area do their shopping. We found no great shopping district or any major mall like structure. At this rate, it looks like the only souvenirs I will be bringing home are a few postcards and a trunk full of Oreos.
