Vacaciones de Primavera

Our two weeks of Spring Break vacations ended with lots of experiences and fun memories (well, we had to skip one week of school :) ).

We started with a short trip to the mountains (Mount Laguna) to have a late winter chill, the girls had a blast sliding the snowy slopes with their boogy boards. Then we headed towards Julian to have a nice dinner, where by the way, we were object of the most strange and nice touch of somebody we don't know. For some reason we are not aware of, a guy sited in the table next to ours, payed 20.00 of our bill just because he is nice...We couldn't even say thank you because he left not letting know anything about his altruism.


As winter birds we directed our wings south to have a lovely time in our almost "private beach" with our friends "Los Pollos, a.k.a Arredonald's, we settled a camp over there in Playa Armenta in Bahia Concepción, Baja California Sur. So much fun. Of course the kids didn't leave the water from morning to evening, they did snorkel, gather seashells, made a little aquarium with marine pets in a bucket (later released safe and sound), and play non-stop, occasionally bothered by the local bees. But nothing beat the view of dolphins jumping and playing right in front our eyes, the vultures resting and drying its wings right over the cactus, and falcons catching fish, the colorful fishies, the ray, star fish and the rest of neat things.


OOOOPS! FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS A MI HERMANA RUTH.

Felicidades.

Despierta mi bien despierta, mira que ya amaneció.... ya los pajarillos cantan, la luna ya se metió...

Féliz cumpleaños a mi mejor amigo, gracias por compartir la vida conmigo, por lo menos ya llevamos la mitad de nuestras existencias juntos, que haya muchos dias de San José para tí.

Today is Pepe's birthday, I'm very happy we can reach it together, although he is in Seattle right now.

Ay, ay, ay...

After a horrible week of bad health I realize how wonderful is to feel fine, or at least kind of "normal".

Everything started with a flying piece of plate in my eye, when they say household accidents are more likely to happen that other type of accidents, is true. Have you ever imagined that putting away clean plates can hurt you?.

Then a horrible cold that lasted for days and as a dessert (I hope) a bad wise-molar day turned in a whole nightmare, extractions and soup diet.

My husband has been a big help to me, I complained of him the day I went to the dentist, but I have to say the following day he interrupted his working day when I called him in a desperate situation and stayed home.

If I would know, that removing 4 dental pieces was such a big, big and painful deal, I never would say, o.k doc., do it. I know common sense tells you that is awkward, mostly if you just have problems with one. But in such pain, the only thing you want is help, your neurons kind of shut down and the last thing to come to you is common sense. Believe me, I felt better when they removed my gallbladder.

The crisis in Latin-America

Latin America faced a war-crisis (see the picture sequence to have a better idea) this week, when Colombia attacked a guerrilla camp posted in Ecuador. Although "la guerrilla" named FARC has its issues against the Colombian government and has its "military" influence in territory of this country, they had a camp in Ecuador close to the border with Colombia, trying to be safe from possible attacks from Colombian army. So Ecuador considered this military incursion as a threat and invasion. Then Venezuela and Hugo Chavez moved army to its border with Colombia as well, as a support to Ecuador.

But, as Latin-Americans, the passion has a lot to do, they insulted one against the others and accusations came and went back and forth, until the reunion in Dominican Republic, where all the Presidents of the region sat together. Some raised the voice and so on, until a big hug at the end. It seems that they solved the problem or at least, slowed down the war threats.



At the beginning of the video, is the President of Ecuador saying, - as a country they agree to get over the conflict-, then the President of Colombia goes and hugs the President of Ecuador, after, he hugs Hugo Chavez from Venezuela, and every body claps in joy.

I could go deeper and say, ideology has to do in this conflict, the right against the left, is the FARC a terrorist organization or not, is it true the U.S made up every thing and supported Colombia to attack the guerrilla in other's country territory, so Hugo Chavez would go mad and to have an excuse to so something towards him. Why Hugo Chavez was so angry at the beginning threating Colombia? and then being so conciliator in the reunion... he even sang.

Anyway, I'm glad they agreed and hugged and probably after that, they went to have some drinks, -the Latino way- ¡ a brindar!

Meet the gang
Presidents of Latin-America

President of Argentina in blue, President of Chile in red.

Presenting....

We finally put together the schedule for our trip to Yucatan.... yay! Please take a look to our "flyer", click to enlarge.




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Ballenas a la vista!

Here we go...


Sailors arguing.
Yes... they were over there....


My girl and I, of course.