Monday, October 12, 2009

Summer..summer...SPAIN!

Our summer was so eventful that it's hard to pick the pictures to depict it.
To pick a few days:
there was an ESPN family day at the theme park where Zoe was finally tall enough to ride ALL the rides (or almost all, short only a few like the sky-bungy jumping with her dad)
The roller-coaster! ( go figure who was more excited Zoe or her Daddy?)

And the carousel...of course
And she learned how to ride a car.. and bump into other people driving:
And a motorcycle

and a train with her friend Katie
and an old car to give her Papa a ride in ( he was really excited:)

and a real water-fall ride ( that got both of them REALLLy wet)

But then it was time to have fun in another part of the planet- SPAIN!
The beach was really fun (even though Zoe was too scare to get into the wavy ocean)- she had lots of fun trying to correct the English pronunciation of her newly found Scottish friend, Courtney:

After the beach Zoe explored the town of Malgrat de Mar on a little train that took her for a ride around town which she really enjoyed:

and that's when she found the coolest city park EVER:
where there was a real rope bridge (unlike the ones Zoe has climbed in the State that barely wabble- this one was a real challenge, even for a monkey like Zoe!)
and there was a real 100-meter long ZIP-Cord!

and some really fun things to climb in or on to!


And a mesmorizing game:
of Dali shadows with her Mama (which Zoe discovered):
And then there was a train to Barcelona!


And then there were lots of Barcelona fountains to keep Zoe cool



And lots of pigeons that Zoe adopted and fed throughout our stroll through the city- the love was mutual! she loved them and they loved her (and her bread crumbs)!


Everybody got thirsty that day:
Zoe
and her Barcelona pigeons:

luckily the beautiful old water pumps were everywhere!
but of course Zoe worked hard to keep those pigeons on their toes:
Until we got to the Gaudi park Guell, where NO pigeons dared to enter:

Zoe tried and climbed every possible rock, of which there were MANY in park Guell (TOO many!)



Zoe CHILLING out after a hot dusty day on a Gaudi lizard- what could be more cooling and refreshing???



Zoe said she will miss Spain and will come back sooon....