Let's go to the movies

Both Alex and Sofia seemed to feel better in the morning. Alex’s temp was normal, Sofia’s was 99.4. Not bad.

I got up with Isabella at 6 am and made her a scrambled egg. I ate some breakfast myself and then went back to bed around 7. I got up again around 9 and made eggs for everyone else.

We decided to go see Pixar’s Cars today. It just opened on Friday. There is a theater near the American Embassy that allows you to pick your seats when you buy your tickets. Maritza called them for us and, using a little map of the auditorium, we picked our seats and bought our tickets. Pretty cool. Even better, the whole price for five of us was a little over 5000 colones. That’s about $2 a ticket. We can even afford popcorn!

We ordered pizza from Papa John’s for a late lunch/early dinner. We ordered the special that came with two glasses shaped like soccer balls. We thought they were going to be plastic, but we were surprised that they were actually glass. Pretty cool!

Chino drove us to the movie theater and we picked up our tickets. The Cars poster had a little sign on it that said “Hablamos en Espanol.” I had a bad feeling about that. The feeling was confirmed when Cristina asked if it was in English or Spanish. Though they had told us on the phone that it was in English, they had apparently told us wrong. It was in Spanish only. We chose to get our money back rather than sit through it in Spanish. What a shame, too. I was really looking forward to seeing it. Even if I spoke Spanish, I would still want to see it in English. So often in movies, little things get lost in translation, especially jokes and idioms.

Luckily, we knew that Ricardo and his family were seeing the show right before the one we were going to see. So instead of calling Chino or walking home, we waited until the movie got out to see if they could give us a ride home. They could and did.

We ordered Chinese take-out with them and the kids got some good playtime. Isabella especially had a good time playing with Santiago.

We checked with the mechanic and it seems that the car will be ready tomorrow. We’ll have to get the propane hooked up on Tuesday (it runs on propane gas), which means we could hopefully leave for the beach Wednesday. That’s the plan anyway.