A Morning in Galdar...

While Jimmy took the girls to the beach, I joined Sally’s family to visit the Cuevas Pintada (Painted Cave) Archaeological Museum in Galdar. This museum features the ruins of a village with circular stone houses and a cave with painted symbols near the roof that is thought to be an early calendar.

Afterwards, we drove to the beach. Rock walls create a natural swimming pool to protect swimmers from the rough waves.

The boys haven’t changed much since they were little -- they couldn’t resist building a dam along the waters edge. The beach was covered in these bright blue jellyfish.

While we had an easy time finding the beach, the same can’t be said for the return drive to the freeway. Somehow we got lost among the high walls of banana plantations. The navigation system instructed us to go down alleys so narrow that our car would never fit. We were just about to offer to pay a local  to lead us out of the maze when we happened upon the correct way.