Europe 2012 - England/Spain Part 16 - Bad Luck Fairy Continues to Stalk

After the long, long hours in the car yesterday, I was ready for some chilling out.  #3 and 3A wanted a little alone time to go to a lake area not far from here and do some walking without 3.1.  I volunteered to babysit.  But with the number of baby loving adults here, that is really not much of an issue as there 5 or 6 people very happy to keep 3.1 occupied. 

We had then planned to go to the town of Rhonda in the afternoon but decided that it needed a whole day to really see it.  So instead when the two got back, the five of us (Wife, 3.1, 3A, #3 and I) decided to drive into the coastal city of Malaga and see if we could rustle up some interesting food for our last full group dinner at the big Mercado Centrale.  Some of our members had had gotten badly lost in Malaga but we were able to go right down where we wanted to without a p3Alem.  We found a place to park in just minutes and a parking place too.  Our luck was changing!

Wrong.  We got to the market as it was closing.  Evidently (in spite of information to the contrary we had found) it closed up for the day at 3 PM, we arriving at 3:05.  So that was a bummer.  We hung around in Malaga for an hour getting some coffee and ice cream.  A nice clean, modern looking place (at least where we were) with lots of pedestrian only roads.  

And lots of motor scooters

And a place we ran into while looking for a cafe to have coffee with a big ole church!

 Plus the obligatory Munchkin Photos

 We remembered that there was a big store we passed on the way in to Malaga, but we missed the turnoff.  So we ended up at another place we knew about that didn’t have the best selection but at least enough for us to make a good dinner.

Munchkin trying to use camouflage to avoid meld in with store products and score ice cream. 

I had loads of help tonight.  In fact I pretty much delegated most of the cooking and grilling and we all had a real good time.

Thanks SRM, Lady Di, Steve and G for all the cooking help and everyone else for all the cleaning up help!