Sara flew back to Scotland for a week to spend time with Keira Brett and Aaliyah before snaffling the little one up and flying back to Mallorca with her.

As soon as we got back to Puerto Pollenca and dropped off the cases, Aaliyah wanted to paddle right around the beach with Sara, no bad thing after a flight so off they toddled.

….and here she is looking “tres cool” in the apartment. Amazing how time flies – it only seems a short time ago that she was born. But I’m certain every parent/grandparent have said and felt the same.

We tried many things that we thought would have been of interest to her, but no, the beach every day was what she wanted. Therefore one doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out where our days were spent. We even took her round to Cala Muro (our favourite beach) but from then on she didn’t want to go anywhere in the car, instead the local beach was her playground.

One day however we managed to get her to leave the beach and we went to Alcudia old town where she had a ball in and out of the shops looking for “something for her room”. I don’t think any shop was missed and Sara and Aaliyah had a great time. As for me I was wilting by the end of the afternoon 🙂 en route back to the car we passed the local Bullring, which thankfully didn’t have a fight on, but the little café was in the shade so we stopped for a juice. I managed to get Aaliyah, complete with her fan, to pose for a “Spanish Style” photo.

I could witter on for ever about her stay, but suffice to say that it was simply a delight having her here and watching her being so happy was lovely. She was “adopted” by the lady in the Bakery after asking for the food we wanted in Spanish, and then Aaliyah in turn adopted a friend of ours called Fran. Now Fran works evenings in his nephews restaurant called Nico’s. I’ll give you one guess where she wanted to dine when we were out at night…….yep you didn’t need more than one attempt 🙂 He is a really nice helpful guy and I guess she sensed the same because she spontaneously gave him a big hug on her last night.

I wont mention the ice cream shack here Aaliyah, as mummy and daddy might read about it and we would want them to know about the delicious ice creams…………so its Nana, Papa and Aaliyah’s secret…shhhhh!!

All too soon it seemed Brett was flying out to collect Aaliyah, but as we had about three weeks of her to ourselves we couldn’t really complain.