If we have been having espresso, I’d let you know that we’ve had a implausible couple of weeks! The trip I’d deliberate during the last yr to deliver the entire household collectively to have fun our fiftieth wedding ceremony anniversary and joint seventieth birthday yr on the Alfagar Resort in Portugal proved to be an awesome success. Phew!! The solely draw back for me was that it was an excessive amount of of a palarva to entry Praia de Santa Eulalia seashore. Although the lodge had direct seashore entry through about 75 steps, I realised I had a higher likelihood of flying to the moon.
My cussed optimism, as I proceed to find, typically doesn’t align with actuality. I thought of hitching a journey with an UBER however determined it was an excessive amount of of a problem, with seashore chairs, solar parasols, and many others. Not to fret, there have been about six swimming swimming pools on the resort, which we made good use of.
With our household dwelling in three completely different international locations, this was the primary time we had managed to deliver all of the household collectively, so the six grandkids, whose ages vary from 4 to 14, received to spend time along with their grandparents on the identical time. I cherished it. BUT I did grow to be annoyed because it magnified my incapacity and lack of free motion, like enjoying within the pool or chasing them across the playparks, and many others. But life is what it’s, and we take advantage of it, sure?
I confess that I did pig out on the scrumptious meals on the buffet-style restaurant for breakfast and dinner and was typically tempted to attempt a couple of dessert and overindulged with cocktails and wine. But why not? I reasoned. Live within the second.
One of the important thing takeaways from spending vital time with my tech-savvy household was gaining a deeper understanding of ChatGPT. Sophia, simply 12 years outdated, quizzed us each morning. What does it stand for? After a couple of days, we lastly shifted the mind cell up a gear, ‘generative pre-trained transformer’ GOT IT! Sigh! And placing my artistic head on, I designed a few footage. The featured picture on this submit is a selfie of me floating on a lilo, sipping on a cocktail. While it was enjoyable, I nonetheless choose the craft of portray and connecting with paint on canvas. Let’s simply say it opened up another supply of creativity.
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When we left the resort, our French household stayed with us for a couple of further days, and we went to our native seashore to get pleasure from picnic lunches and watch because the grandchildren performed within the waves. I additionally like to people-watch as they arrange their seashore camp and guess their completely different nationalities.
My ideas turned to all of the great holidays we had loved collectively on that seashore. I used to like bodyboarding, digging holes, constructing sandcastles and mendacity within the sand. Treasured recollections!
Me bodyboarding in Aug 2012!
My recommendation … take advantage of your grandkids when you can. Time passes within the blink of a watch!
That’s my espresso share for this week, people! Do pop over to Natalie’s weblog the place she shares a lot of fascinating footage from Kew Gardens to get pleasure from extra #weekendcoffeeshare
