Day 24 and 25

Friday July 23
My sister came today with her family to visit and spend the night. She brought some gifts for the kids and they played with their new toys for a while. In fact, her son Tobias and Brett seem to be in the same selfish period and can't share or let the other play with any toy whatsoever. It's frustrating. To that add the language difference and they are a mess! But a funny one.
Tomy is such a big boy at 14. He arrives and confiscates the computer and IM's all his friends for hours. Blake tries to make him play and he does for a little bit, but Tomy is in his own world.
Nicolas, my sister's second son, has a genetic disorder and mostly sits and observes. He is 12.

Later, Tomy and his Dad Maxi went to watch a soccer game. They came back after dinner.

Today, Saturday, the kids went with Maxi to wash his car. They had a ball. Uncle Maxi likes to spoil kids. We ate lunch and then Mom, Jessica and I went to the closest shopping center that is about 5 blocks and had a coffee. A new to me mix of condensed milk and coffee. Interesting. After we spent an hour watching people up and down the escalators we came back home where uncle Maxi was still spoiling his kids and nephews.

At dinner time (9pm!!!) we went to my high school friend Laura's house to have dinner. She lives around the corner from my mother's house. She had invited some friends that live in Puerto Rico and were in for a visit with family. There were also two other couples, and another high school friend and a prospective boyfriend for her. It was sort of an undercover blind date if something like that is possible. Laura was trying to introduce these two friends, and both were shy about meeting in a smaller setting. There were several kids and my kids and them played video games for a while, watched TV, ate pizza and had fun. The adults sat at the table and ate pizza too. We talked about life in the States, capitalism, same sex marriage, adoption, Argentina's landmarks, and many more things. It was a very lively evening, that ended for me after browsing my friend's wedding album. It was beautiful. I was the first one to leave with reluctant kids at 2 am....Buenos Aires has a night life even for families with young kids.