Thursday, August 21, 2014

Nerja August 10th-12th

Day1: Drive to Nerja and Paella. 

Kellen and I got up early and took a jog to the train station to pick up our rental car. We then went to the airport to pick up everyone else's luggage which was lost during traveling and came in the nick of time before we headed out on our road trip.
We had a car loaded with stuff and headed 2 hours to Nerja, a beach town in the south of Spain. Were we starving when we arrived and went to a famous Paella place, Ayo for dinner. Paella is a rice mixture with lots of seafood grilled in huge frying pans. For 6.5€ you get all you can eat Paella!!
While at lunch we had Maddie try her first lemon. I was all ready with the video camera to catch a sour face but instead she smiled and just kept in eating it. Crazy baby!
By this time it was about 5pm, my favorite time to hit the beach. 
The water was quite a bit colder than Greece and there were bigger waves so Maddie was not a fan of the water. While Maddie took a beach nap we played volleyball against 3 guys from Syria and beat them 2 games to 1!! We stayed at the beach until past 9pm and then wandered through the crowded streets home.

Day 2: Yes, Another Beach Day!

Well the title pretty much sums up what we did today. Lots of sun, swimming, burgers for lunch, volleyball, then pizza and pasta for dinner. One great moment is when Papa Stu gave Maddie a sip of his Coke Light. She absolutly loved it and when she saw another can later crawled as fast as she could towards it. Addicted at a young age!
How to get your stroller across the sand without getting stuck: roll it backwards!
The beach setup for the day!
After dinner we walked around the town and stopped at the Balcony of Eurpoe. I huge area that looks out over the ocean and was the inspiration for the layout of the game Trivial pursuit. Which was invented by a Spainard!

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