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This update is coming from the lovely island of Menorca. Maybe I should have done it in Spanish! Anyway, we had some stuff to do before getting here…

🩸 More blood tests for movieStar (she’s ok).

💈 A visit to the barber on Tuesday (no issues here).

🦷 A visit to the dentist on Tuesday (I’m ok).

📦 Pick up a new G-Shock (loving it).

🌡️ tinyMovieStar’s temperature rising right before we have to get on a plane. Classic tinyMovieStar.

She was fine the next morning, coming down from a quite high fever, and even went to school. She had to pick up her stuff, say “thank you” to her amazing teachers and staff, and goodbye to everyone. She’ll see them again in October only. That’s 80 days! She’ll miss the first month and a half of school, for a very valid reason: she’s traveling!

💻 More photo editing. All done, thankfully. I’ll shoot the music festival in August, but I’ll probably have no work until October. Freelancing sucks, and a bit more when people/clients have no idea when you’re in town. They stop calling. Understandably.

🇪🇸 It was time to fly to Menorca, and begin our week of relaxation.

That would be flight #11 for our 4 year old.

Day One

First trip with one single watch, the one I’m wearing. It feels odd to do this, of course. Not having another one in the backpack is just strange. But, since the GW-5000U (must find a nickname for this one) had just arrived, and needed to fully charge, what was I to do?

movieStar also decided to travel light, and forgot her phone at home. She only noticed at the airport, too late to go back. Travel days are, of course, already pretty stressful, and we had to spend the time before boarding trying to sort this one out. Nice.

The lady who helps us with cleaning up (and has a key) also does that for a few of our family members, and she was at a cousin’s place. In another city. She had the key with her. She gave him the key. He handed the key to his wife. She drove to the city (about an hour), and left the key with her sister. Another friend was flying to the island to meet us, and she’s picked up the key, drove to our place, and retrieved the phone!

Anyway, we got on the plane, and found ourselves in a Spanish island one and a half hours later. A taxi ride away from our final destination.

As soon as we found our apartment, we went to the supermarket. tinyMovieStar vanished. She was unaccounted for for about three minutes, but I think I aged a bit during those minutes. Found her quite far from the supermarket, closer to the apartment. I was pale, and pissed.

Swimming pool, and we were done. Time to wrap up day one.

Day Two

First full day on the island.

Our friends were flying in today, and picking up the car we’ll use to drive around the island. Sadly, their flight was with easyjet, and there’s nothing easy about that. Flight delayed, and then cancelled. With the passengers already sitting in the plane. Maybe tomorrow. Classy.

In the meantime we went to a couple of beaches close by, and spent an incredible amount of time at the pool.

tinyMovieStar got a bit of fever, again. I rushed (walking as fast as the heat would allow) to the nearest pharmacy. She bounced back pretty quickly, with medicine and a lot of water.

No 📚, no 🎵, no 📺, no 🍿.