Lapras was one of two pokemons left in our Pokedex that we have yet to find (the other requires a trip down under). We haven't been too happy with the new tracker which only showed pokemons near pokestops... we were missing out a bunch of nearby pokemons. Also, with the corresponding migration, we lost our stream of Pikachus and Squirtles (replaced with Nidorans.. sigh).
Anyway, tonight, as we were stuck in traffic taking the kid to Chinese school, I happen to notice a LAPRAS on sightings. With the pokestop tracking (and my Ingress knowledge), I knew exactly where to go. After checking with the crew that it would be okay for the kid to be late for Chinese school, we made the 2 minute detour. Passed my phone back to the kid, and he got serious, and tossed Razzie and Ultra balls. Quickly nabbed the rare pokemon.
Wife, on the other hand, was having trouble. She spent like 10 pokeballs already, without luck. You run the risk of pokemon running away at this stage. Good thing kid came to the rescue. Another raspberry + curveball, the kid caught Lapras on his "FIRST TRY!".
Kid can't stop asking: "Can you believe we caught a LAPRAS?!?"
We made it to Chinese school on time too! :D
Earlier in the day, kid and I saw a nearby sighting of a Dodrio... one of the remaining 12 pokemons we needed to catch. In fact, we've been walking Doduo for the past day, trying to gain enough candy to evolve one. Of course, catching one would be even better. Unfortunately, the earlier hunt was unsuccessful. After an awesome late lunch at Pasteis de Belem, we were waiting for tram 15 to Lisboa, when I noticed a new pokemon on my scanner! The infamous Dodrio!!! Kid and I have an agreement on who gets to catch pokemons.. the person who hasn't caught one yet would get first dibs. This being a new one, we'd take turns throwing one ball at time. I handed the phone to the kid, and his eyes lit up! He turned super serious, and dictated his game plan... raspberry then ultra ball. With a "GREAT" execution, the Dodrio popped back out.....
... and ran away. After one throw. WTF!!
The kid was stunned. I was stunned. He was like.... HE RAN AWAY!! I replied, "It's okay.. we'll evolve.. but you should have thrown a curveball." Kid rebuked with, "I did throw a curveball!"
We got on the tram.... saw another shadow of dodrio later on... but no real sightings... such a tease.
It wasn't our day. Kid asked me if I was sad... he obviously was disappointed. :(
This was bound to happen one day. As we were checking into our apartment, I was busy with the landlady when kid comes up to me with a quiet panic in his voice.. Daddy Daddy, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened! What do we do now?!? Apparently he accidentally activated a lucky egg! Since I was still preoccupied with the landlady, I had to tell him to wait, and he began to pace nervously around the room! Needless to say, in the long (more like 5) minutes for me to finish the checkin, kid's anxiety level went through the roof! We then immediately went and evolved whatever we can, which was hard since we were aggressively transferring crappy pokemon to get the 2x candy during this Hallowe'en event. Finished off with about 40k experience. Kiddo was so apologetic and promised to never let this happen again. I magnanimously told him it was okay. Just a game! A good learning experience all around. Then we had a blast the rest of the day in Porto!
Okay. No question we like this Hotel. We found this quicker than expected!
In a hotel on the outskirts of Madrid, I ask the kid if he liked this hotel... we are catching so many pokemons we don't usually see here! His reply: "What do you mean I like it? I LOVE IT!" :D