The first ice cream of the year...

The weather seems to have been much better this winter than it was last year. Yes, we've still had some days of incredible torrential rain, but they've been interspersed this year with plenty of crisp dry days, and even some warm sunny days that herald the promise of spring and summer on the way. The ice cream parlour at the end of our street decided that it was time to open its doors again for the new season and, as this is the schools' mid-term holiday week, Gabriela and I went there yesterday to eat our first ice cream of 2011. Mmmm, delicioso!

Today is Ada's birthday, so we'll be doing some celebrating this evening. Swedish and Spanish are on the menu: she announced that she'd like the Swedish meatball dish from Ikea, after we've been to the cinema to see the latest Disney movie, "Enredados." If you have kids, you may have already seen it in English: "Tangled" is the story of Rapunzel.