Lazy Sunday

Day 8 July 22nd Sunday

The Allsup family is starting to get back to our normal sleep routines. I don’t think anyone except Gracie woke up before 6:00am and after a bottle, she quickly and quietly went back to sleep. We finally made our way down to breakfast for social hour. Several of our friends were there so we traded baby stories for a while. The hotel workers really like Logan. They are always giving him high fives and asking him what sports he likes. With Logan being so shy, he gets a little uncomfortable with it but it’s good for him to try to interact with people from other cultures. We sat at the same table as Dawn and her daughter Eva. The girls decided to go shopping for a while after breakfast and Logan and I agreed to watch Eva for her.

When Dawn and Eva got to the room, Gracie was already sleeping in her crib. Eva is a cute little gal that has a spike hairstyle. When Becky and Dawn left Eva calmed down and went to sleep. She was probably asleep 10 minutes when Gracie started crying because she made a mess in her pants. This woke Eva up and she started crying as well this had Logan starring at me and shaking his head. He didn’t think O’dad was up to the challenge. I quickly changed Gracie’s diaper and placed her on the bed surrounded by pillows. Gracie was good to go because she doesn’t like those dirty diapers on her. I picked up Eva and walked around the room bouncing her around and finally she went back to sleep. By this time Gracie was back out as well. Logan looked at me and said “Dad, mom owes us big time”.

There wasn’t much to do this afternoon. We just sat around the hotel did a lot more reading, games, playing with Gracie, and TV. About 4:00pm we left the hotel with Dawn and Eva to the Mediterranean restaurant to meet up with Tracy, Max, and Amy. We sat there for a couple of hours catching up on what we all have been doing the last day or so. We left the restaurant for the hotel. Very close by was St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and it was conducting Sunday night Mass. The inside of the church was filled with people and spilled out to the front of the church with people sitting on small plastic stools. The church had a large projector screen with the mass projected onto it so people from the street could view it. There were many people who parked their scooters, bikes, and cars to watch mass taking place. We would have stopped but the babies were ready to get back to the hotel. Gracie looked like she was ready to fall asleep again for about the fourth time today. The girl likes her sleep.

Becky and I gave Gracie her bath and then Becky gave her a bottle and put her down for the night. Logan and I watched a movie together and then we all passed out. We can’t wait for the work week to start so our paperwork will continue.