oh happy day

First thing this morning we went to the airport to find the Seguines!

It is quite useful that we make frequent trips to the airport and the assistants met us there to help out with the luggage. They dropped it off and the house, but we headed for the city.

We wanted to take the kids for a short drive and quickly saw that we were following a racecourse through the city. It turns out that they were having an exhibition of Italian Racecars. Unbeknownst to us, we ended up eating breakfast in the midst of all the owners gathering for a photo shoot of their cars.

One of Doug’s former employees (from ten years ago) noticed us. He is now affiliated with one of the car owners. You can imagine that it wasn’t that common to see four children with their parents and grandparents having breakfast on the sidewalk café right next to this event! However, for us it was a very fun and exciting breakfast.

We came home and opened up all of the suitcases. Amongst their things, they pulled our requests from the States. In some ways it seemed more like Christmas, than Christmas.

The kids all wanted to go swimming, and the rest of us walked to a nearby restaurant and ordered empanadas to take out for lunch.

Gotta love siesta…at least, we were all loving it today. When we woke up it was close to sunset.

We live next to one of the largest racetracks in the Americas. They race thoroughbreds on a grass surface that allows for a 1000 meter race without turns. Almost daily, we love watching them tend to the horses as we drive to our missionary duties early in the mornings, so today we decided to go and watch the horses race.

It was a very family-friendly event and although the hippodrome can accommodate 100,000 people, it was quite sparsely populated for this event. I have to say that it was thrilling to watch the horses come down the track.

Afterwards, we went to one of our favorite places to eat--Lo de Nacho, translate, House of Nachos. We enjoyed the beautiful evening and ate outside under the colored lanterns. On the way home, the kids remarked that this was just the 1st of 15 days we were going to spend together. It was a very good day!