This trip was my revenge I guess :).
It was also the first time I flew alone with Catalina. She was wonderful the whole time, despite flight delays, crowded airports and well, you'd never guess...clown visits in the airport!
Ok, it was not a real clown, just a Phillies parade that looked a lot like a circus. But boy, was my little one scared. She thinks that the clown took her pacifier and (I think) she believed that the clown came to her because she kept asking about the pacifier. Once the parade was over she went back to her usually sweet self.
Our stay in Nebraska was the best one yet. The kids are all older, the weather was amazing (hello, yummy dry heat). Catalina was delighted to see her bunica again. These two are like deeply in love!
We celebrated uncle Mikil's birthday on our first day there. A family friend came with her dog and Catalina had some fun. Short lived, as the dog was naughty and Catalina scares easily :)
While Catalina is not yet interested in playing with other kids yet, mommy had some great time with her cousins. I am sure it's hard raising 3 kids, but the fun never ends!
The really nice part of a smaller city (like Lincoln, Nebraska) is that everything is clean, close by and very kid friendly. We had a nice trip to the zoo (entrance fee in Lincoln: $5, entrance fee in Philadelphia: $16). I do hope we were envied by the people around, because we were an amazingly loud and funny group!
With bunica always shadowing our precious girl, mommy and daddy had few seconds for themselves. We are a lucky family, indeed!
From left to right: Silvia, Mikil and Mari!!
After the really successful trip to the zoo (and, for one to truly understand how hard this is, one HAS to go out with 4 kids with strong personalities, like Catalina's cousins and herself). I was happy and I was planning to relax for the rest of the day. I guess miracle do happen, as the little ones had good afternoon naps and in the afternoon we headed to the water park. We had so much fun, that I did not even have time to snap a single picture! On the way home since everybody was hungry we stopped for sandwiches.
Waiting (impatiently) for dinner!
On our last morning in Lincoln we visited a nice garden. It was a little bitter sweet, knowing they were our last hours together, for who knows how many months. Between screaming kids (mostly Catalina this time...), terrible heat and beautiful flowers we managed to keep our spirits up.
We can't wait to meet again! Hopefully cousin Mikil comes to Philly with bunica for more summer fun together.
