So the Zurlos came down with the Snellen kids in tow, and hubby took them off to the beach while I headed downtown to take my Oral Proficiency Test in Spanish.  I met them afterwards.  The water was cold, which kept the adults out, but didn’t deter the kids.  We ate terribly unhealthy boardwalk food – more than once.  A good time was had by all, and it’s so nice to be close to the ocean.  The air temperature had to be almost 20 degrees cooler than at home, only a 10 minute drive away.

So, last night I was dreaming about teaching Spanish, and in my dream, I was trying to teach the students the names of car parts – when I realized I didn’t know the words for brakes, bumper, steering wheel.  Woke up in a bit of a panic.  Well, sure enough, I get to the roleplay part of the test, and the adminstrator says “You’ve borrowed my car and had an accident.  Tell me what happened, and what you’re going to do to compensate me.”  Dayum!  So I finally get it out that I got rear ended, and the car can be driven, but still needs the back end fixed.  The other driver didn’t have insurance, so I’m going to pay for her to use a cab while it’s being fixed.  She says to me, (in Spanish) “I’m so lucky to have a friend that will pay for a cab for me while my car is being fixed!” and I responded (in Spanish) “You’re lucky to have a friend who speaks Spanish as a >second< language!” (Funny because of the amount of stumbling I did over the vocabulary!)

Carolyn came in this morning from the back yard, insisting that I had to rescue the fish that were caught in the pond plants.  Sure enough, they weren’t caught, they were laying eggs.  Looks like Eric is a girl fish.  It’s funny to watch.  Dennis pokes Eric around the pond.  Bruce is in hot pursuit, but he’s smaller and slower than Dennis.  Eric goes up to the plant and flops around like mad, Dennis flops around on top of her, they swim off with Bruce in hot pursuit, and Kyle and Sam, the koi, have eggs for breakfast.  I don’t think we’ll be seeing too many new fish.

Just had to share a couple of fun things that showed up in my game. . .

Trinni Viska got a little turned around here.

Sastina has fallen asleep standing, stinks to high heaven, desperately needs to go to the bathroom, and is as uncomfortable as she can possibly be, but her husband Kwando is busy listening to his mp3 player.

Seezo Glarsch got a Cow Plant as a career reward, and he just keeps forgetting to feed it, much to the dismay of hungry townies and nannies!

(you should see the garden now. . .this was when the cow plant was new!)

And since the Glarsches and the Duvijays live and love together, they all seem to have babies at the same time.  Too bad nobody likes to clean up after them.