Our good friend Nadia came to visit us a couple of weeks ago. They live just on the other side of the mountain so we don’t get to see them as often as we’d like. I will briefly tell you about the day so that my narrative may serve as a weak excuse to show you some sweet photos that I took.

We started the day at our place. Nadia’s two girls, Chloe and Meritxell, are just on either side of Emily age-wise and are the sweetest things ever. They both enjoyed cuddling and getting to know Sebastian.

It was an absolutely gorgeous day so we all headed on down to the park. Emily spent most of her time with Chloe, digging in the sand and racing down the slide.

They would race down the slide and then sprint to the other side of the park where Chloe would climb up a fantastic blue curvy metal ladder and Emily would deftly scale the treacherous rope ladder.

Meritxell spent most of the time on her own, sitting in a quiet corner of the park watching sand fall from her hand to the ground as if she were contemplating the very essence of the Earth beneath her. Then she went down the slide about 300 times with Nadia, shrieking with excitement each time.

We ended our time together by having lunch at this tiny little hidden restaurant that Jan showed us, where you walk through the run-of-the-mill dining room out into a nice secluded outdoor patio for picnic-style dining. The kids were too busy running around and playing to eat too much of their lunch but the parents enjoyed a nice meal with surprisingly child-friendly service.

The ice cream that the girls wolfed down was all that kept them awake before we said good day and headed home for a late and much-needed nap. A good time was had by all.

Now that I’ve got my new camera (and I’m loving it!), I have so many more quality photos to share. Expect a few more of these little photo-event summaries in the week to come.