What a Day

Yesterday was a really fun day. We have a park that is only a few blocks away from us that we have been wanting to go and check out. We drive by it everyday and we have wanted to walk through it so we decided it would be the perfect day. It was pretty amazing. It has tons of trees everywhere and is beautiful!!! It is amazing what they have here. They have fields everywhere and since it was Saturday it was fun to watch everyone gathered out there playing soccer. They also have a softball field which we have seen people playing games on a few times. They have little jungle gyms everywhere along with trampolines they just have set up around the park. On one end they also have a roller rink that gets a lot of use! They have a zip line throughout the park even ones that go over the ponds. You can go horse back riding and of course you can buy fruit, icecream, kites, and all sorts of things. It was pretty amazing how much stuff they had there. The more we walked through it the more we kept seeing. I know all the kids would have loved it!!! This was pretty neat, when we were walking back Mark was in his wheelchair, and Robert had Julie in one because it is to hard for her to walk long distances. When we cross the street it is pretty challenging because their curbs are really high and we have to cross two lanes of traffic with a median in the middle. So we have to make it down the curb up another, down and then up. Our first time was a little tough because Robert pretty much dumped Julie out of the wheelchair because the curb was to high so she had to walk across. The little flashing walking man isn't on for very long when your trying to get two wheelchairs across and you do not want to get stuck in their traffic that's for sure. Well I was able to get Mark across and was going to run back so I could push the wheelchair across while Robert helped Julie across but by this time we were out of time so the traffic started. There was a big public bus at the front so he pulled up a little and moved diagnol blocking off the whole side of traffic so know one could get through. It was pretty amazing. We all wished we could have gotten a picture because it was a sight to see. The bus driver was awesome and he just sat there and waited until we had made it across. It is amazing what people will do to help. He moved a whole bus full of people to block traffic so we could get across. People are amazing! So once we were done at the park we decided to go check out one of the malls here. All I can say is it is HUGE!!! It took us 2 hours just to walk one part of it and it wasn't even half of the mall. They had so many stores and the food court was huge. Of course we had to stop at a place that had crepes and it was delicious!! We love our desserts what can I say. It was just fun to walk around and see all the stores and the things they had there at the mall. We recognized a lot of the stores and most of them where the same stores we have but the names were just a little different. After we got back we went to dinner at a Peruvian place called Chancay and it was amazing. We have had such good food here that's for sure. So all in all it was a great day!!! I have been trying to post more pictues but the internet keeps kicking me off, so I will try to post more later.

Oh and congrats to Caden on his Baptism we were thinking of you!! :)

The Eucalyptus trees here are everywhere and they are beautiful. The picture does not show it very well, but they are streaked green and purple.

They had little jungle gyms everywhere and cute little things to buy for the kids

These were all over the park and at first we had no idea what they were. We thought they were like little tree forts or something. Then we saw people zip linning from one to the other.

We bought some fresh cut up mangos from these little boys

I thought this little girl was so cute, and i loved it because they were getting ready to fish. One more thing you can do at the park.

They were selling monkeys and kites

Horse rides. It was so cute the little horses were just following them around

Mark getting ice cream. You know us and our treats!!! It actually got pretty warm while we were walking around


The trampolines. They had quite a few of them just around the park

The skating rink. It was really fun to watch everyone

So Mark was giving me a hard time for posting this but i had to take a picture because this rice cooker was HUGE. You can't really tell from the picture but it was enormous and I though it was so funny. I guess when you eat rice and beans everyday you might need one this big!

These Giraffes were awesome! There was so big and beautiful of course I had to take a picture!

Eating at the Peruvian restaurant. That is Tom in the middle his sister Jen was being treated here for MS.