Today we got a chance to get out with some dear adoption friends, the Treats, to see replicas of Columbus’ ships The Niña and the Pinta. After taking a brief walk around the diminutive Niña the two big questions we had were ‘How many people worked this ship and how long were they on it?’  After doing a search on the Google, I came across these two links for wikipedia’s entry on Columbus voyages and a short page on the specific ships he sailed and how people lived on them.

The tour was worth while, except for the temperature – you’d be surprised about the relationship between temperature and lack of food has on children under 7; while we waited for our food (for an hour) at Joe’s crab shack, we were treated by the two high chair’s taking turns hurtling their coloring sheets onto the floor, and the other littles launching attacks at each other with dinner implements of destruction (did they have an appetite for destruction?).

One interesting, incredibly dark thing the Juvinall kids are doing now is that they are getting each other in trouble. Like a world cup athlete when the ref has his back turned, I occasionally hear screams from the other room of ‘he…he….aida…hit…me’ or after chasing his sister down and facing her pushing him back ‘Iona!’ So, creativity on their part is getting met with creativity in understanding what the truth is.