Estepona weekend

Since our day trips were over, we escaped Torremolinos by heading west down the coast to Estepona, where my dad's cousin and her family live.

We spent Saturday hanging out with my family at their house, sitting on the terrace in the sun and eating delicious food. My dad's cousin, who's basically my aunt, and her husband made an amazing gazpacho, paella with octopus, monk fish, and squid, and then a chocolate mousse dessert. It was by far the best meal we had eaten this whole trip.

After lunch we headed to the nautical club at the marina to pick up their kids who were in a sailing class all day (totally wish I could have done that!). It was hilarious to see about 15 kids come off three tiny boats all yelling at their parents that they want to continue playing in the water. We left them to play for about half an hour while we went down the dock to check out the yacht my uncle is captain of. It's the biggest boat in the marina, 7 million euros in cost, and outright fabulous.

We went back to pick up the kids and headed home. They were hilarious little monsters and very entertaining. After begging us to stay the night, we decided to stay, have dinner, and crash in the little girl's room.

We sat at the table while my uncle made dinner and watched my younger cousin tie nautical knots. He was teaching us how to do them and hilariously criticizing our every mistake.

Dinner was another amazing meal of squid and potatoes. We stayed out on the terrace chatting and hanging out until 1am, it was a wonderful day of doing nothing but eating and hanging out.

We woke up the next day to more sunshine and another great meal. Breakfast with fresh bread, toasted with cheese, olive oil, and turkey, accompanied by coffee.

The kids made their way to sailing class again while we took a walk along the beach and then headed to the marina to scope out the local market. The market was just like every other market we had been to, but much smaller. It was fun to look around at all the crafts, clothes, and other trinkets before we headed to lunch.

We had lunch at the nautical club, they had a big members only lunch to celebrate the fish derby they had earlier that day. They made octopus salad with potatoes, fried fish (caught during the derby), and paella with octopus. Another amazing meal on the Costa del Sol.

We left the marina and the lunch and headed home to jump in the pool. Little did we know we would be jumping in with 6 kids, all wanting to hang all over us and have us throw them around in the water. We spent two hours battling with these little animals in the pool, playing games, racing, and throwing them around.

Sadly, afterwards we had to wash up, say goodbye, and head back to Torremolinos so the family could get back to normal life (the kids had school the next day) and we could pack our bags for Mallorca.

We got back to Torremolinos so happy that we avoided long periods of time there and that we were leaving the next day. We called it an early night.

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