Our Monkey Was All Smiles

Poble Espanyol or Spanish Village was created in 1929 for an International Exhibition displaying building styles from all over Spain.

The plan was to tear it down after the exhibition however once it proved to be the most visited site of the entire exhibition the city decided to keep it.

It was refurbished in 1980 and now is home to local artisans, restaurants, theaters, and what we learned after booking our tickets, the best Flamenco show in town.

After a much needed lunch we set out to explore this village.

We asked Ethan to be careful here....

and here....

and here....

and here....

and here....

but it wasn't until here that he finally got the message.

Moments later his feet slipped from this ledge and he landed face first on the steps below. As I watched to whole thing happen I was happy to discover only a gash and not a fractured face. With our very limited Spanish we sought out and got the help we needed. After a cleansing from the security staff they loaded us into two taxis and sent us to the local children's hospital.

What I thought for sure would take several hours to address in reality took maybe two hours and 130 Euros later we made it back with about 30 minutes to spare before our dinner reservations. The kid seriously only cried when it initially happened and when they cleaned it at the hospital. He was all smiles the rest of the evening even though his eye was slowly shutting and turning black and blue.

Then next morning he was again all smiles.

When we asked him if he could see, he said yes as though we were crazy for even asking. Over the next few days the bruising continued down his face stopping around the end of his nose. He looked bad....really bad but it didn't phase him one bit.

But again he NEVER STOPPED SMILING!