Thursday, August 13 - Archaelogical Museum and Navigation Pavilion

Adorable Rosa woke up, wrapped herself in her Rainbow Dash blanket, and came to say hello to me in the kitchen.  So cute!  And such long bangs.  But, not long enough.  She's growing them out and it's a slow process.

We ate breakfast, got dressed, and headed down the street to catch a bus to museum #1 for the day.  On the way, we dropped off more outgrown clothes and shoes at the donation bin.  All 3 kids had a part in donating them.

First stop for the day was the Archaelogical Museum in Plaza de America.  

After touring there (another museum that seemed to be without air conditioning, at least on the basement floor), we grabbed a sweet snack at a snack stand in the plaza.  And we enjoyed eating them in the shade of the beautiful trees and admiring the horses and carriages as well as the stunning architecture around us.

From there, we walked a few blocks and then hopped into a taxi.  The car was so old that the seatbelt for the middle seat was just a lap belt.  The kids had never heard of such a thing.  The taxi dropped us off at the Navigation Pavilion which is across the river from our apartment.  We'd been there once before to see the temporary dinosaur exhibit.

The permanent collection was great to see.  

It included a ride up the Navigation Tower for incredible views.  

Looking down at the riverfront museum.

Cody hanging out.  It turns out that he has a fear of heights.  This surprised us since we've been up high to see other sights such as at the Eiffel Tower, El Corte Ingles, and the mushrooms.  He mentioned it was the river that scared him as he clung to me for dear life.

More amazing views of the river.  

Across to Plaza de Armas and central Sevilla.

Safely back inside the main museum, the kids had fun at the interactive video game are where they played roles of being on a ship.  

Cody requested that I keep both of these pictures of him on the blog.

Devon and Rosa pushing this wheel really hard.

Cody and Rosa.

After the museum, we walked across what we call the blue & white bridge to the apartment.  It was an easy and quick walk.

For Scott it was a good day at work.  He and the team finally got design sign-off for a major part of the project here.

Scott had an 8pm meeting which meant either an early dinner (hard to find since many restaurants don't open for dinner until 8 or 9pm) or a late dinner, but we didn't know what time his meeting would end.  We opted for an early dinner and returned to Meson Serranito on Calle Alfonso XII (the one-way street we call the main street), one of our go to places for a traditional Spanish meal at any hour.  Rosa had carrillada, Cody had jamon and a pork steak, Scott and Devon had a steak, and I had the cold tomato soup salmorejo.  This was the restaurant where I'd first had salmorejo.

Family shot in front of jamon at the restaurant.

Back home we watched "The Rescuers".  I fell asleep during it, but the rest of the family enjoyed watching a new to us movie (thanks to Netflix).