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Day 18 – Sleeping, Swimming and Shopping

Tuesday 24th April, 2012 2 Comments

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Another day spent mostly at the hotel. I sat out on the front porch with the kids in the morning while Andres played with the other kids staying at the hotel.

Leanne comes to use my laptop to send some emails
Nicol lazes on the couch

The Swedish family who were here when we arrived were finally ready to fly to Bogota today, so before they left, we got a photo of the three families together.

The three families - Danish, Australian and Swedish
Nicol and Ida - they were room-mates at Chiquitines (slept in cots next to each other), Ida is 1 day older than Nicol!
Emil plays with Andres
Andres does headstands and somersaults

We slept for a while after lunch and then later in the afternoon, Andres and Leanne swam in the pool while I looked after Nicol.

Leanne helps Andres practice his swimming
Nicol smiles for the camera
Andres diving into the water - he would swim to Leanne and then swim back to the steps before diving in again - over, and over.

After drying off and getting dressed, we all went for a walk to the shops for some supplies.

Andres still had trouble getting to sleep – it was close to 10pm before he finally settled. What was really annoying though, was that the power kept cutting out for 8 seconds every 2 minutes … it did this for over an hour. We had to turn the fan off and all the lights, because it was so distracting having them turn off and then on again 8 seconds later.

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  1. Bill and Jill says

    Saturday 28th April, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    Notice Nicol has a little car! Lovely blog and photos of you all.

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  2. Trevor Hampel says

    Saturday 28th April, 2012 at 10:57 AM

    Great photos – lovely to see you all having a wonderful time as family.

    Reply

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