2004-12 Gran Canaria: Centros Comerciales Yumbo & CITA

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overview

trip's start

jet-lagged London

Covent Gardens

South Kensington

to Gran Canaria

Yumbo y Cita

Faro de Maspalomas

Isaac's 6th b'day

Playa del Inglés

more Isaac's b'day

Las Dunas

anniversario

La Cabaña Park

San Fernando

Los Guanches Norteños

vomit comet

Christmas Day

A Day of Chores

The Kids' Wish

Wind on the Dunes

Playa Amadores

New Years Eve

Maspalomas New Years

Towards San Augustin

Both Kids Trampoline

Puerto de Mogán

Puerto Rico

El Dia de los Tres Reyes

LPA - MAD - LHR

LHR - SFO

home again

T S U N A M I !!!

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2004-12 Gran Canaria: Centros Comerciales Yumbo & CITA

Friday 17 December 2004

The kids having slept in, well, all of us having slept in, we stumble upstairs to join Omi Marga for an abbreviated breakfast.

The whole of our first day will be abbreviated, as we enjoy a new environment and relax into our new home. (Our bags are neatly unpacked, with Isaac's "independent study" journal and homework waiting in the room.)

Our first venture out includes bringing Omi to C. C. Yumbo for some grocery shopping. Lila is doing a good job of being a support for 92-and-one-half-year-old great-grandmother.

Isaac is all smiles as he re-acquaints himself with the billard tables at Paddy Murphy's breakfast restaurant.

Lila steeled herself to try a mechanical ride at the C. C. Cita: the sunflower caught her eye. Then Isaac imitated her.

Isaac decided he wanted to try the flying bicycle ride; Lila imitated him.

Returning to our local neighborhood, we try the playground at the C. C. Yumbo. Here's a double-image of Lila on the swing-set. The seats on the see-saw haven't been repaired. One of the wiggle rides is broken. The ropes from the climbing bar hangs in shreds. It's rather depressing that the local authorities just can't repair anything at all; only tearing things down and raising new things seems to be done here (at least as I've seen over the last four decades).

All that having been said, the kids find a way to enjoy what remains. Without this it would be hard to give the kids an interesting outlet for their energies close to home.

The sun long down, the holiday lights lighted, we head back to Atlantis I. Here's Lila showing off her new pink wristwatch.

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