My friend Anna and her husband invited us to go to Ensenada for the day, specifically to visit Las Cañadas and go swimming with the babies. Their daughter is 6 weeks younger than Maya.
Swim nappies on, just need swimsuits and a pool
Las Cañadas (http://www.lascanadas.com/) is a great water park/camping ground/fly-by-wire complex just south of Ensenada. It has a super pool for babies and children, complete with a pirate ship and a tonne of different slides for toddlers and smaller children.
Pirate ship at Las Cañadas. No the babies didn't try out the slides... Next time
Ahmed and I even went on the Canopy Tour, while Anna looked after Maya, and we flew across the whole complex on a series of wires, boardwalks, tightropes, etc. The girls 'swam'. That is, they sat and splashed in the water, rode about in the little blow up boat, and looked bemused by it all. Afterwards, we went off to one of those restaurants that only Mexicans know about and had a lovely seafood meal.
As soon as we got home, we changed, handed Maya to the babysitter (poor wee bunny, a lot of babysitting today!), and walked the 15 minutes to the bull ring in Playas to see one of my favourite singers: Manu Chao!
For about three hours, DIF, interviews, Ahmed leaving, court dates, scary judges, escalating costs, being stuck in Mexico, adoption process and all the other stresses of the past five months disappeared while a crazy Manu Chao leapt around the stage and infected us with his enthusiasm for everything. Welcome to Tijuana!! I still can't believe I heard that song, live, while in Tijuana. We feel positive all of a sudden, and decide this will be our week. Things are going to happen.
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