air-conditioning

I thought this was funny last night while me and the fam were going on our nightly walk. As you have seen in a previous post we sometimes go and feed the ducks (which is right down the street) or we'll go to the beach and let Ethan run around. Well our other fun evening tradition is to go down the street to our local Safeway grocery store. I know that sounds weird and I didn't think it sounded weird until last night. One of our reasons for going is because it's air-conditioned and sometimes we may need an item or two (but mainly we just go for the cool air). Well for those that live here, they know that there is nothing on this side of the island that is air-conditioned and kid friendly. We do have a small mall but it's not worth it to go to and then fight evening traffic.

So as we were walking last night, and Ethan knows all the great stops along the way (looking over the bridge to see if he can see crabs or ducks, jumping off the man-hole, pushing the button at the traffic light for the cross-walk, and asking to stop for a milkshake at Burger King which is on our way to Safeway), I thought it was kind of funny that Ethan will have this crazy memory of walking to the grocery store in the evenings just to "hang-out". Jason and I were talking about this on our walk and he was laughing that when he takes Ethan to the grocery store, they always have to stop by the bakery to look at the birthday cakes first. And then he runs over to the display of 'real fruit' fruit roll-ups and as Ethan says "buy it, daddy?". It's almost like a zoo to Ethan. He's probably the only 3 year old that knows his way around the grocery store.

So anyway, I thought I would share our adventures living here in "paradise".