Day 26 – Rio Pance
Another restless night – Leanne is still not feeling great.
With a bunch of new families arriving at the hotel in the past few days ready to collect children tomorrow, there is quite a buzz at the hotel again. With a few older kids around, Enrique had planned to take everyone up to the Rio Pance again – only us and the Italian family (who left on Friday) went last week, so it would be a new experience for everyone else. Enrique asked me if that was okay that we go again, and I explained that Leanne still wasn’t feeling well, so wouldn’t want to come anyway. I told him we really enjoyed the visit to the river last time, so I would take Andres by myself this time to give Leanne more time to herself.
So around mid-morning I headed out with Andres to join the other families for the trip – our first outing on our own. Andres likes riding in cars – he goes very quiet and just looks around, watching things – which makes him very easy to manage on trips like this. He also tends to fall asleep which helps.
He needed changing and demanded a feed right after we got there, so I was busy for a while – but eventually he settled down and even had a nap. I sat around talking to the other adoptive parents – and the new parents who are due to collect their children tomorrow.
It was a fairly relaxing day – although I was kept busy looking after Andres on my own.
Andres enjoyed the car trip home – and fell asleep again, but he taught me a valuable lesson – change nappies more regularly, they only hold so much liquid! I didn’t notice until I got out of the car, but his nappy had leaked all over my top on the trip home. Only liquid fortunately – but still a lesson worth heeding I feel.
Leanne was feeling a little better this evening and joined us for dinner, but requested just soup rather than the meal everyone else was being served.
Tweets from today
- thinking of a side trip to the coast – Cartagena, looking for nice hotels in the old part of town which are suitable for us with an infant
- 7th June, 2009 10:02 PM from TweetDeck
- spent the day with my son up at the River Pance while wife stayed at the hotel to get over her stomach bug.
- 7th June, 2009 9:25 PM from TweetDeck
- Finding it ironic that I was worried about swineflu travel restrictions to South America, but Australia has become 4th most infected country
- 7th June, 2009 7:57 AM from TweetDeck
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Ah – the blissful joys of parenthood. Nothing like a baby in your life to make you realise what their priorities are!
We are reading this blog in Derby W.A. Hope Leanne continues to improve. Andres seems to be fine behaving like babies do!