A Promise Made...

There was a lot to research and consider when deciding where to pack up and move to for a year. First, there are the major items like timing, age of kids, budget, language, world events, quality of life, and much, much more....Then, when we had it narrowed down to Spain, there seemed to be even more to consider: dialect, region, proximity to airports, avoiding the concrete jungles, being coastal, proximity to various activities such as scuba diving, mountain biking, climbing, hiking, historical sights....the list goes on. So far, La Herradura has met all of our expectations and more. One of the highlights about moving to this town for the kids was Aquatropic, the local water park, and a huge inflatable play structure we saw in the bay on one of our first days here. They begged to go on the structure, but we did not have suits with us, and we were busy trying to get them registered in school at the time. We did not see it during the week, so we assumed it must be a weekend thing. We promised we would take them to play on it the following weekend...unfortunately, it was done the first weekend of September....but that's okay, because there was still Aquatropic, the water park.. We figured the best time to take them would be when their cousins arrived in October, so being smart, we checked the website and found out it was only open until the end of September...so we decided it would be a great treat after the first week of school. We heard that a local shop had coupons, so I went and got the discount coupon, we woke up Saturday morning, packed a lunch, got our suits on and headed to the water park for the 11 AM opening time. Half way there, we realized we had forgotten the coupon, so not worried at all, as we had the entire day, we turned around to go back for it. Arriving at the water park, we were devastated to find out it had closed last weekend. Apparently our Spanish needs some work when looking at websites. It's funny, because the water park was a huge selling feature when looking at living in this area. I can understand a water park closing that early in Canada, but I never dreamed it would close that soon in Spain! It is still plus 30 degrees most days. Now we are feeling terrible that this is the second promise we have broken in as many weeks. We quickly got on the internet, and found a water park that was still open in Torremolinos. Unfortunately it was 11:30 now, and it was an hour and a half drive away. After a quick phone call to verify, and a family vote, we were taking a road trip! Had a blast at Aqualand, and stayed right until closing at 7 PM. Sometimes you just have to follow through on promises.