Mateo meets Carlota and Eva
We met our fiends and their babies for the first time. Eva, Carlota and Mateo meet for the first time although they will not remember this.
Saturday Jun 29th.
We finally got around to meet with my friends Carlos & Irene, who had a baby-girl, Carlota, now three months old. They had their child just a mater of days after our gender reveal party, but had not got around to see them since. Since then Josean & Paloma have also had their first baby, also a girl, Eva, only 20 days old. Since I was starting work, after my 6 weeks of leave, the next day, we found a moment to meet together at a terrace near Conde de Casal. My good friend Pablo could also join.
We decided to meet between 18:30 and 19:00 in a bar called La Vinatera, a nice place with plenty of space and good “tapas” and “raciones”. Since it was not very far from home and could potentially walk back from there we decided to take a short bus ride to metro Sainz de Baranda and walk down hill to the meeting place, that way I didn’t have to bother with finding a place to park. The day was sunny but quite windy and this came into play later in the evening as the temperatures went down.
Mariel, Mateo and I arrived early and found Josean, Paloma, the baby Eva and a couple who were their friends already there sitting at a table outside in the terrace. They had met with these friends early since they had to leave soon. Anyway Eva was so cute.
Photos of the Fathers with their kids:
When we left, we decided to try the same route as when we came, although this time it was a walk uphill. It seemed that going into the trouble of taking the metro, with Mateo, for just one stop, for later taking the bus was too complicated. Mateo was crying a bit so I hold him while Mariel pushed the empty trolley, at least until he fell asleep and I put Mateo in the trolley.
By the time we got to Sainz de Baranda Mateo was asleep and we were enjoying the walk so decided to walk al the way home.
Mateo’s first trip to Hoyo
We went to Hoyo, had lunch in El cerrillo and Jamón Iberico for dinner at home.
My parents have a flat in a urbanization in Hoyo de Manzanares in the mountain side of Guadarrama in the proximity of Madrid. It is a nice place to spend part of the summer vacations since the temperature there is cooler than in Madrid and the swimming pool is very appreciated. Also the walk possibilities in Nature just out the main entry of the urbanization.
My parents, Mariel, Mateo and I went all 5 in my parents car to Hoyo, arriving there in the morning in time to have a coffee and some sweets as a second breakfast. After breakfast my dad and I had a quick detour to Alpedrete to pick up my car form the workshop. More details on that in a specific post for later.
We had lunch in “El Cerrillo” a restaurant in town.
Had dinner at home.
We stayed in Hoyo al Saturday just enjoying life with Mateo and Mateo getting to know better his grandparents!