Day 10 & 11

Day 10

Very routine.

Walk down the street

Grab a popsicle for Syd the kid

Nap for Sean

Etc….

 

Day 11

Again…ummm what did we do? 

Imagine this ….

Monkey Forest Road is one of the few roads blessed with sidewalks; we gave up on the stroller about five days ago.  Sydney is finding her own ‘travel legs’ and she is determined as ever to not hold hands and run onwards.  Problem:  Scooters and motorcycles drive wherever they please (which also include the sidewalk if need be), so I am constantly on guard and I very much feel like a mother goose chasing her young, nipping her in the butt to herd her here and there. . .

I also have to mention that while this street is one of the few with sidewalks—I have never seen such a helter-skelter set up.  There is no uniformity to them and I am not being a princess when I say that the sidewalks can be just as treacherous to walk then the road…complete ups and downs, construction supplies piles wherever, scooter as mentioned.  I need to get a picture of this…

Anyway, on with the story.

Rich and I and the kids are walking on one side of the road (on the sidewalk); Sydney is running and trips, lands on her knees and hands and the crying begins.

Another father is walking by on the other side of the busy street carrying his two year old.  He stops to see our ‘scene’, we notice him for some reason watching us.  We all seem to share a moment of “WTF” are these sidewalks all about.  He yells across…”You should sue…You should sue” with humour in his voice. 

We  yell across, “What, are you from the States?”

He yells back, “ya,  you must be from Canada.”

And we moved on. . . that was it…no other talking just a shared moment.

Rich and I looked at each other and wondered out loud, how did he know we were from Canada?? 

Not sure we want the answer  :)