overview trip's start jet-lagged London Covent Gardens South Kensington to Gran Canaria Yumbo y Cita Faro de Maspalomas Isaac's 6th b'day Playa del Inglés more Isaac's b'day Las Dunas anniversario La Cabaña Park San Fernando Los Guanches Norteños vomit comet Christmas Day A Day of Chores The Kids' Wish Wind on the Dunes Playa Amadores New Years Eve Maspalomas New Years Towards San Augustin Both Kids Trampoline Puerto de Mogán Puerto Rico El Dia de los Tres Reyes LPA - MAD - LHR LHR - SFO home again T S U N A M I !!!
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2005-01 Gran Canaria: Both Kids on the Trampoline
Monday 3 January 2005
One of the daily rituals - on this trip - has been watching the painters cover one vertical strip of Atlantis I.
Each morning their platform has been moved to a new location. We never hear the platform being used, and have no idea when they do it.
They scrape and paint, spilling both dry and wet paint on the balconies and windows below. They could save themselves many hours of clean-up if they tossed some tarps in strategic positions, but this completely seems to elude them.
Day after day we watch this, and even the kids have figured out they're doing this incorrectly. How do I explain the manaña attitude, the enthusiasm in building new structures and the neglect over the next twenty years, as they crumble? It's not easy.
I'm so sure they'll make it over to our spot before we leave. Rose and I have plotted out their progress, and it seems certain they'll be here in a few days. I don't want to clean up the inevitable mess they'll leave on the porch.
Still, the painters are cheerful, and give the kids many hearty shouts and wide smiles. That counts for a lot.
UPDATE: perhaps it's the Christmas, New Years, and Holy Kings celebration days which cause delay, and is the explanation for our escape before we're covered in paint and chips. For this I'm thankful.
After breakfast all of us head to the C. C. Yumbo playground. Here's Lila negotiating directions and order with a play-pal. Unfortunately, horrid houligans have broken all sorts of bottles in the kids playground as part of the New Years celebration. Rose and I have picked a huge amount of broken glass, bottle fragments, and even some burnt things from the sand.
Rose is pretty handy with the video camera. Behind her you can see Omi Marga.
The kids want to head back to the C. C. Cita arcade, and so we leave Omi Marga behind and stroll south. We're a bit early, and the arcade isn't yet open.
So we backtrack to a paella restaurant by which we passed. This is the knife on the table. I thought my dad, the metallurgist, would get a kick out of this description of the blade constituents: carbon, chromium, and molybdenum.
Here's the restaurant. The street is parallel to the left-side wall. The grill is at rear. The bar is through the doorway behind Rose. And you can see the indoor dining room.
Here's the bar. The cafes con leche and the carallilo was tasty, and the staff very pleasant.
Finally the arcade opens, and we head on over. Lila is at right, with each of the four trampolines used by another little girl. So much screaming :-)
Later we head back to C. C. Yumbo, where Isaac gets to ride his trampoline. By the time we get home I'm as tired as can be.
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