Day 14 – Wednesday 27 December

Another lazy start & we spend the morning helping the boys building their robots.  We only make a few mistakes & it takes an hour or so more to sort it out.  After that the programming, it is amazing the advances that have been in aids to programming, the basics are still all there but now it is drag & click & pull to set up the chains of commands.  The robot does exactly what it is told to do & Austin has a load of fun experimenting with it, picking up a bottle, moving forwards & back, stopping at set distances in front of objects.  This seems to be a great way to teach kids the basics of how to program computers.

Monica & Tereza in the morning watched some old movies – Australia & Gone with the Wind.

The afternoon is spent at the pool, me snoozing on the deck chair & Tereza with Austin in the pool.  I sooked out, it was too cold for me, 25C but the wind was cool.  Charles & Jackson practised some karate in the gym.  The water in the spa would have been lovely & warm but Austin is too young for it.  They spent hours in the pool & then back to the robots again.  Monica & Austin made delicious pizza & garlic bread for us, then after dinner more robot stuff & a game of Uno.

From the huge apartment building windows you can look out & watch the world go by & we see the most beautiful sunsets looking up the canal, in the dark the city lights & the cars are magical.  I suppose that is the plus in living up on the 9^th floor.  A very relaxed & pleasant day.