a nice, quiet week. the eyes got better, the water levels dropped and work got done.

we booked tickets and arranged accommodation for a trip to sweden next spring, for a work thing. i’m usually a bit wary of booking stuff so far in advance, but it’s also nice to have everything in place and know that it is going to happen. let the anticipation begin!

i’ve been sending tiny niece one book every month for her growing library, and this month’s was “and tango’s makes three“, which is a sweet tale of 2 papa penguins who adopted an egg in the central park zoo. sadly, i couldn’t find it in portuguese, so i picked the spanish version and translated the difficult words in pencil underneath them. i think she’ll enjoy it — she’s very much into animals and their sounds these days. :)

the highlight of the week was a classical music concert we attended in faro. the local orchestra has a series of concerts that are made to be more approcheable and fun for the general public, and it was really nice. lots of kids in the audience, but everyone was pretty much spellbound to the fast music and the shenanigans of the orchestra. and in the end, they dropped balloons from the ceiling! :D