Saturday at the Mall with an Eleven Year-Old

Last week was pretty much business as usual. Cooking and entertaining always takes place the first part of the week. Thursday night is always seafood night at the California Kitchen; but last Thursday, the special was crabcakes. Carol's crabcakes are especially good and a group of us met to enjoy them. Here are Dale and Joannie.
This is John and Dorothy; they were visiting Cuenca for a couple of days before going on to the Galapagos.

Pat and Sue

Mick and Nikolas

Lena told us last week that her oldest son, Jonathon, needs to learn English for collegio. Mick had the idea that he should spend the day with us in order to hear English. We picked him up on Saturday morning and went to the Kitchen for breakfast. While out and about we passed this interesting door; I believe it was on Gran Colombia. Notice how low the handle is.

After breakfast and a visit to the Coffee Tree, Jonathon and I went to Mall Del Rio. We rode the train around the mall. You can ride all day with your $1 ticket.

There is a European Bungy there also. The cost of the ticket is based on your weight. There is a scale connected to the register and it prints your ticket out with your weight. The little stickers on the boys' shirts are tickets.

There are trampolines that you stand on and get belted into the gear and cables.

Jonathon is ready.

He was then hoisted up.

Each trampoline has an assistant, who then pulls you down by your foot and releases.

I went to the second floor to take pictures.

After all that, it was time for ice cream.

Hopefully, Jonathon had a great day with the old folks. It's been a very long time since we have dealt with children; they're tiring. Jonathon is a sweet boy and we're happy that we were able to have him for the day. With his family situation, we don't think he has a lot of time to just be a kid and Saturday was his day.

Until next time,

Mick and Kathy