Its been great weather these past few days. We are at this serviced appt by the seaside, offering gorgeous views, there are about a dozen playgrounds around this area and a fantastic ice cream seller who piles on the ice cream to last us a week when we ask for a single scoop!
But since Daddy started work on Tuesday after the long Easter break, we have also gotten into a routine of sorts. We've decided to keep the random outings and long meetings with new friends to the weekends. Kids get homeschooled in the morning while I manage to sneak in some work. After a simple lunch it's art and craft time for about an hour. We then head out to one of the many playgrounds where other kids are playing even past 8 pm (the sun is up till about 9 pm these days)!
Today, while we were playing downstairs we saw 3 Finnish boys racing each other. Soon V & S joined the gang. The Finnish boys could not speak a word of English and of course my kids can't speak Finnish. And yet the children had a fabulous time playing endless rounds of hide and seek. They mimed, they gestured, they laughed.So beautiful watching all these kids, strangers till minutes ago, come together and play with such joyful abandon!
Vaibhav tells me during bedtime
1. that he has arranged to meet his friends at 1 pm the next day
2. that 2 out of the 3 kids are siblings
3. the exact ages of each one of them
I guess playing a lot of Dumb Charades sure does pay off sometime!
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