trip on the trolley!!!

Nicolas loves to ride the new trolley that takes us downtown. For him it is like going on an adventure. He is having a hard time lately, we think it has to do with me going back to work. I am working only part time and I get home at 1´15 pm monday thru friday. I spend most of the day with them, I pick them up at school, eat lunch with them, snacks later, take them to the playground after school or music class on tuesdays.... and then dinner, bath... everything, but even though I am with them most of the day, Nicolas feels the difference because when he wakes up I am already at work and I dont give him breakfast anymore or dress him during the week anymore.
So, we took this trip to downtown Alicante and we left Alec with daddy. We decided to go to the city hall square after waking around the harbor for a while, buying balloons, talking... The city hall square becomes an antique market on sundays and "abu" (that's how nicolas and alec call my dad, their grandpa from Spain) has a stall with other friend over there. He exchanges old postcards, coins, stamps...and other things, they buy and sell and he loves it; it is his hobby. Nicolas hangs out with him every saturday all day long and half a day on sundays he loves his abu. After a short visit to his table in this market place, we continued with our field trip waking to the beach and then going back home on the trolley again. I will post a couple of pictures of this day!!

At the playground with "tía Mamen"

I promised tia Mamen I was going to post this picture on the blog. This was at the beggining of november. She spent that evening with us and she´s been friends with me forever, we met each other when we were 9 years old. In spite of not being a relative we call her aunt (tia) Mamen. We don´t see each other as often as we would like, due to our schedules,kids... and the crazy busy life everybody lives nowadays. Here goes the picture playing with Alec in the park.

Special time with daddy!

Nicolas loves to go hiking with his daddy. Here they are a few weekends ago in the cape near home. It is beautiful because there are rocks, mountain and the mediterranean sea all together.

Nicolas had a blast and Tracy too!!!!!!!

A GREAT DAY OUT IN THE MOUNTAINS!

Last sunday we decided to spend the whole day out up in the mountains. We went to a nearby village called Alcoy. The area Font rotja or red fountain is only an hour away from the beach. That´s the name of the sanctuary in "el carrascal" de Alcoy (name of the mountains in that area).

Nicolas had a great time and so did Alec and us. We went with some friends and their kids (Cristina 7 years old, Carmela 3, Marta 3, Nicolas 4 and Alec 1) they all climbed up everywhere they could, and they did like most kids do, nonstop playing all day. Then we had a nice picnic at stone tables under the trees. Some of us took the kids hiking, they loved it. Nicolas wanted to see some wild pigs, deer or bears, but we had no luck.

Anyways we had a great day out.We´ll try something similar again, visiting other villages, mountains....etc