La Sodita Italiana

Maria and I did our workout this morning (a little earlier today which was great because it wasn't so hot). Today was the hottest day yet I think, and it especially felt hot because yesterday was cooler.

After workout, breakfast, working, blogging, we're all set to head to the beach to meet the Corey's around 10am.

I do need to give photo credit again to Maria this year - a couple of days I've had very few notes about the day and have built the blog around her photos.

Sarah and the girls didn't stay at the beach very long, the zinc oxide that Sarah bought yesterday in Tamarindo was stinging both Maddy and Juliette's face so they headed back to the condo to wash up. Anthony stayed out in the waves with Jay and Trev.

There were some MONSTER waves today, breaking really close to shore though so not great boogie boarding for the kids but great for the boys.

After the beach we came back to the house, leaving the boys at the beach playing frisbee. The girls stopped half way up for a snack at Gram’s condo. Mom told me later that Myah said to her “I had a little freak out last night and Dana asked me today if I wanted to leave early and go home with Jim on Thursday but I was like ‘Yeah no, I’m not going home early are you crazy?!’”

Shortly after we got up here though they arrived at the house with Anthony. Jay asked if he could take the car to drop Anthony off at the condo but he's not on it - so I said I would drive him and texted Sarah to let her know he was up with us and just asked her if she wanted to meet us here before going to lunch today with a shirt and shoes for Anthony so we did that instead. The guys had a couple of beers and when Sarah and the girls arrived we went to Surf Box for lunch.

Almost everyone got the cuban sandwich, which is so good. I ate half and will have the other half as lunch tomorrow, most people did the same - everyone actually except for Jim who enjoyed his whole sandwich.

Surf Box serves great coffee, but no decaf, so Jim and I can't have it, both of us need decaf, 100% or we get heart palpetations - and I would be jumpy and feel terrible all day.

From Surf Box the girls all wanted to go to the Corey's condo for the afternoon - so we piled into our car and went to the grocery store (of course) to grab a few essentials and then went home to float in the pool all afternoon.

This pink floaty is like our mascot, its in all the photos.

This picture looks like I'm birthing Paige, but really I'm putting her hair in a french braid, which she proceeded to remove about 15 minutes later.

The girls came back and want to sleep over at the Corey's (this so far is working out well for us, maybe we'll just rent a 3 bedroom next year and send them to the Corey's every day!). So they pack a bag, but Sophie decides before she's even officially packed that she'd like to stay home.

I was chatting with Myah and explaining that home is an hour ahead, so 6am is like getting up at home at 7am, which is good since she has to get up for school the first day she’s home. Myah says “Yeah, that’s a bummer”. Totally.

Maria came down and sat beside me and I noticed that she had blood inside her ear. She went in to clean it off, she got a chunk bit out of her, Sarah asked if she cut herself shaving and Maria said "Hey, I'm not that old yet!". Sarah said "Great, now you don't like me more than Anthony either!" That came from a text Maria sent me yesterday.

After the photo below and the one of Sophie at lunch I've now told her that if she makes that face any more in photos she's going to have a consequence.

I'm going to have to tell Anthony the same thing about the shocker. (These are 3 different photos!)

Sarah's steak was DELICIOUS - it was the special. The server said it was a 230g tenderloin and Mom and I looked at eachother and tried to do the math and figured "230g couldn't be very big" it was 8 oz!! It was $20 USD and was so good with a fresh mushroom sauce.

All the food was amazing, we got so many things I can't even mention them all, but I'll try. Mom and I shared carpaccio, we also ordered 4 bruscetta and a caprese and we shared around the table. Sarah and Anthony ordered the octopus carpaccio as well. I had a milanese steak, lots of people ordered the lasagna which Dad had raved about and Maria ordered the calamari and shrimp. Maddy and Jujie both got pesto lasagna but didn’t love it. Maddy took it home anyway, like she does all of her leftovers even if she has no intention of eating them because she wants to be polite.

Mom and I shared a bottle of prosecco. We were poured a small glass and then left the bottle in a bucket of ice so I reached in to refill and filled our glasses up. Trev said "That's right, don't think about pouring it, pour it!"

Dessert, a couple had the lime gelato, Jay had the nutella cheesecake and I had the 100% decaf espresso poured over vanilla icecream after I stressed multiple times that is MUST be decaf! She said she checked...twice.