Museo de Niños

Today was a great day! I usually start my days around 5 am- today I slept in until about 5:45! WOOHOO! I got up and got ready to go walking with Meg. Our weekend routine is to walk together on Saturday and Sunday mornings, then I go to the Feria (today she came with me) and then one of us usually goes to get cinnamon bread for our families. Walking in the mornings make s me feel so refreshed! I wish I had the time every morning to do that...un dia...

But after I got home and we finished up breakfast, we all got ready and headed off to a local park and met up with another family from school. We all road the bus together downtown- which was a fun experience- and surprisingly easy :) We set off walking downtown through the "Walking Mall" which is a long strip mall that you literally walk on the street through. The street has been closed down and it was a neat area. Our desired destination was El Museo de Niños- The Children's Museum. After a longer than expected walk, but one full of interesting sites of San Jose, we found the bright yellow castle like building called the Museum.

We paid our ridiculously cheap admission (less than $10 for the entire family!)and entered the museum. The people were so nice and many spoke English very well. The museum was packed with great things to do and see. Of course it was all in Spanish, but it was entertaining and exciting. It felt so NORMAL!!! to be at a museum with our kids! They got along great with the kids from the family we went with and it was just a very fun morning!

Our friend started up a conversation with a museum worker and we ended up waiting for the workers break and he took us to a great little restaurant with really great food!

By the time lunch was over, it was of course raining, so we took a taxi home, which proved to be fun and a great way to see downtown. I was happy to recognize many sites form my two trips to the Clinica Biblica.

God showed us a glimpse of normality today. For two weeks now, we have taken Saturday mornings and done something fun with the kids. It has proven to be a system that is working. Today was a really big step for us to venture out into the city. It still intimidates both Matt and I to get out someplace with the kids, not knowing very much Spanish. But we are learning and growing more adventurous as the weeks go by. It helps to have friends that feel the same way we do and also want to fight that "trapped feeling" we seem to have.

We praise the Lord for giving us friendships and a day like today!

On a side note, Matt and I had our first date since we've moved here this past Wednesday. It was really the first venture out into the city for us. A friend from school offered to babysit and of course we took her up on it! So we went out for a few hours in the afternoon and into the evening. We took a taxi to a nearby mall and walked around for awhile. On Wednesdays, movie theatres run a two-for-one special- so decided to see a movie that is new here- Evan Almighty. It was really great- you should see it! It only cost us $4.00 for both of us to see the movie and 2 drinks and big bucket of popcorn was about $5.00! What a cheap date! It was good to be together. The evening didn't go exactly as planned and we had to endure a very rude and obnoxious taxi driver on the way there, but all in all it was good! It was exciting for me to see that it CAN be done- finding things, getting to (almost) the place you are desiring to go, and being able to communicate with limited knowledge of the language.

I praise you Father for some normalcy in this week!