[quakercub]

anyway, we went to bed and the next morning (Friday) we slept in a bit since everyone was tired. The mother was outside on the patio having a cigarette and enjoying the outside. We had a good morning everybody doing their version of waking up (coffee. tea, etc.). It took us some time to get out of the house, which annoyed the mother a good bit. We took them to a lovely boardwalk at Madeiro Beach where they shopped and had a good time. We ate, but I can't remember what. In any case, the next day was Saturday and it poured, so we went to The Pier and looked at the Aquarium and some shops. Everybody was tired so we went home and got some Chinese take-out. We planned to get up early the next day so that the mother and I could go to quaker meeting. Daddybear unfortunately had a bad reaction digestively to some of the Chinese and was unwell for much of the night. The upshot was that we were exhausted and did not hear the alarm when it went off. We overslept big time.

The mother was quite angry. She had mentioned that waiting around was taking away a lot of time from sightseeing and that she didn't like that. This particular morning, she expressed her displeasure thusly, "I'm not comfortable with how much of my daughter's and my vacation is being taken up by waiting for other people." She railed for a few minutes and we expressed our apologies. When Daddybear suggested that we all forgive each other and move on, she replied that she was not ready to do that yet and she'd let us know when she was. More to come, but dinner calls