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Sunday, May 27, 2012

First Week With Bippy and Gramps by Mia



          All of us kids had been counting down the days (and, when it got close enough, the hours) until Bippy and Gramps were going to arrive on the Wednesday two weeks ago. When they did arrive it was super exciting to see a familiar face that spoke our language (and wasn’t our parents or each other). We were also excited that our parents would be leaving for a whole two weeks to go on a cruise in the Baltic, (when they chose the Baltic over the Mediterranean for this cruise I seriously questioned their sanity. I mean, really, they have two weeks in the end of May/ beginning of June to go on a big, fancy cruise ship and they pick a sea where the weather is to cold to make use of the swimming pool?!) and Bippy and Gramps would be taking over. To make things even better was the fact that they had got a beach side condo at a resort in Marbella to hang out in that weekend. So, in short, we were all extremely excited.
          Our parents didn’t leave the second Bippy and Gramps arrived, though. There was an overlap of two nights during which Kayley and I were sleeping on couches in the living room. I had never thought I would be glad about the two extremely unnecessary couches that clutter up the living room, but I was glad they were there to sleep on. I know from experience that stone floors are really hard! Our parents left for Norway early Friday morning, and then the party started! On Friday after school we drove to Marbella and the resort. I had stayed home from school on Thursday and Friday because the rest of my class was in Gibraltar so I had gone grocery shopping with Bippy and we had a cooler full of food for our “siesta meal” (which is what we call the giant feast we have at around 4 pm because no one really eats much of anything at school). And we ate sandwiches and snacks on the car ride there. 
          The resort was amazing! The condo had enough beds for every one (that’s a huge thing for mistreated kids like us), and the added bonus of numerous flat screen TVs and complete kitchen. In the resort there were several pools, several restaurants, the beach a few steps away, and an overpriced supermarket (yeah, I know, why would you need a supermarket if you have several restaurants?). The weather had been perfect for laziness all week (about 90 degrees) and the future looked good. On Saturday we walked around in Marbella, which was nice, even though we picked the wrong restaurant for lunch. It takes skill to make a chicken Cesar salad taste gross. When we came back we lazed around for a bit and had the leftover sandwich from lunch on Friday for dinner. That first whole day was a complete success, even though it was a little colder and cloudier towards the end of the day than I would have liked.
          The second day was what made me angry. It rained (rained!!!) during the night and it was way colder than it had any right to be on a Sunday in the end of May. We tried to laze around outside for a while, but it got too cold so we just left. I just couldn’t believe that the one weekend we get to be in a condo on the Spanish Riviera just happens to be the one weekend that it isn’t 90 degrees out!! Weather is so evil. We drove back to Churriana and did some more lazing around (man, I just love laziness) before going to bed early enough so that we wouldn’t die the next morning when we had to go to school. 

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