Sunday; Day 34! My day off :) I spend the morning doing some work on my phone before heading to the pool to Skype my Mum. I am asking her to send over some business cards and just 2 of my smaller eyeshadow palettes as Eva and I were discussing that maybe this would be good for when I do makeups back in the country and for any potential clients too. It will be good to have the business cards regardless anyway and Eva said I could even give them to people if they want me to teach their children English as it's in demand over here. We shall see what comes of it! It's nice to speak to Mum again and I confide in how I've been feeling in my efforts with the kids and the family; it makes everything seem better afterwards...Mums always manage to do that somehow, I will never know how though! (Thanks Mum)
Before long, Alejandra and Patricia join me at the pool and they say hello to my Mum before I say bye and head in the pool with them. We end up doing triple layered shoulder rides haha where Alejandra is on my shoulders and Patricia is on Alejandra's and I walk through the water! ...To make things easier, from now on I'm just going to say Ale and Patri for short as that is what we call them as nicknames :) ..but yes it was quite the task trying to successfully get them both on whilst remaining stable lol but they thought it was great and it was a fun workout for me! There are only a couple of others in the pool as everybody is having their siesta but there's no rest for the wicked around here :)
The rest of the afternoon is pretty chilled out and in the evening I decide to go on a bike ride by myself down to the Port. Now here I must note that my right knee has been playing up a bit but, maybe due to giving triple layered shoulder rides lol or the swimming and running around like a mad-hatter...but then again, maybe not. Either way, I have just ignored it. Whenever I exercise intensely back home it gets a little aggravated but because I am cycling, running around or playing with the kids every day, it has really flared up for some reason. I enjoy the bike ride and spend a good hour and a half riding and taking pictures at the port (check blog photo for a beautiful shot I got) where everyone is having dinner and drinks, but, the knee yep, the knee is getting worse! I have the gears on the highest setting as that is what I prefer to use on the roads but this probably doesn't help.
Once I get home I notice it's crunching when I bend it and it is slightly inflamed. I put some anti-inflammatory cream on it and rest it but Kiki thinks it's possible that I have torn my meniscus from the symptoms I am showing. I bloody hope not lol! I'm such grandma! All I want to do is go climbing and hiking in Italy so it's brilliant timing really but we shall see how we go. It's definitely the last thing I need right now though!
As the night goes on, my knee is irritating me even more so we decide that when we head back up to Seville on Wednesday, we shall go to see a doctor, but for now, I shall just live with it. No more cycling or climbing rocks! The one time in life I just want to be a kid and do everything that they do and more, I can't :( yes I am having a whinge but seriously! Not fair!
Tomorrow we will be heading on an 'excursion' as the family call it, to Bolonia to the beach, and then to Tarifa at night for tapas. Apparently these places are big attractions to tourists and can get very busy so I am looking forward to it! Now I just need my knee to heal!