Argentine Vacation - Day 1

So we made it! We are here in Argentina and will post as often as we can. The internet connection isn't the best so you will have to bear with us a bit (took four separate attempts to get this post posted), but posts will come, and will generally consist of the best contents from each day...wow, that will be a mission as this vacation is something like 19 days! Anyhow, this is the first day, the day we arrived. We were feeling very tired and jet lagged, and mosied around town trying to stay up so we could get a good night's sleep. From door to door it was about 20 hours, for both of us.

Yep, that is the Argentine flag. It welcomed us to this fine city. What a lovely flag it is...

Argentine PJs...this is on the ride from the aeropuerto to the ciudad.

So of course they play Football in Argentina, pretty much the deporte nacional [sic]. Anyhow, don't think they call it Indoor Football, instead it is called Cover Futbol. Thought it was interesting...

Went and bought some water and cerveza and came across these diapers. Didn't buy them, but couldn't resist the temptation to shoot a photo...hope it tickles your fancy...

On our lazy walk of the city on the first day we came across one of the widest (and biggest) trees we had ever seen. Here is a photo of Meg...

Same tree (back left) except a self portrait that includes Mark!

We needed to eat, so we headed to this restaurant in Recoleta called TeaTriz...we got there about 9:00 pm and there was nobody in the restaurant! The locals generally eat at 10 or 10:30 pm, so we went to this Cafe and had a beer before going back for din din. This is Mark at the Cafe...happy as a clam! He also very much enjoys Quilmes Chopp (more on that later).

Here is Meg at same Cafe as Mark above...she very much enjoys Quilmes Chopp tambien!

The restaurant was on this street...what a lovely name for a calle.

That is all for now unfortunately, but much more to come later...and we reckon you'll enjoy what's to come a bit more as well. Ciao.

Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow

Stockings are Neat

So our stockings have been up for a while. For some reason, just decided to share them with you. They will likely tickle our fancy on Christmas.

Don't mess with Texas!

Boot detail...

Trees, Lights, Snow - Normal Winter Occurrences

So it is now December, which means snow shows up usually, and most people buy trees and put lights randomly around their house, both externally and internally. This is what we've been up to as it relates to those topics.


Went to the Christmas tree lot - a friend's family owns it actually. This sign was neat with the light hangin' next to it.

Meg and Norman...just hangin'...

Norman really wanted to come home with us. So we took him home and dressed him up.

The car has real bad tires, or at least not good for snow. Makes driving in situations like the one above very interesting. Where is Nuge when you need him?

Ate food at a neat little breakfast spot in Victoria - this is the view from out table.

And here are the external lights at our place...very spiritey!

Very Jiggly...

Birthday and Thanksgiving Vibrations

Had a birthday, Stevie came down, Finch came down (the Fullers were here as well), went to Seattle for Thanksgiving, and that's about it for this post. November is a great month, year after year...

It's always good to see Stevie...it had been a year! Couldn't believe that; time flies.

Went to a jazz show for the birthday, it was great! Good people, good jams, and lots of the special pasta.

Finch came up as well; got him a boo-ley. I think he enjoyed the place, except for the fights with Kayo.



Bought Finch this Elvis Chicken...it makes the most horrendous sound possibly ever.

Thanksgiving trip to see the Fullers... This is sort of a sequence, but not really. Had basically officially finished school, so the bubbly on the right is about to be cracked.

There went the cork!

So the cork landed on the roof, bounced down the roof, bounced once on the ground, and landed basically in my hand. Cool occurrence, crappy photo.

Cheers big ears! Down the hose big nose!

And now what we were all waiting for...turkey time! Poultry = 190F. This was the next day of course...

Finch and Cheddar were real anxious once the wonderful aromas kicked in. Finch was even lickin' his chops!

Mandatory self portrait with the poultry.

Thanksgiving sunset - amateur photos never do sunsets justice...

More amateur Seattle sunset photos... That includes the next photo as well.

That's all she wrote.

A Birthday, Pretty Leaves, Chores, and Dead Sal-mon

So this basically goes down monthly now, but at least it goes down. The last month has been pretty crazy, for the both of us. Here is some stuff that might Tickle Your Fancy.

Meghan had a birthday, October 19th! Here she is blowin' out candles. Photos of Meghan blowin' out candles are just great...very cheeky.

More cheeky...

Fall in these parts is absolutely lovely - look at these pretty colors.

Leaves for days...

Chores at Shawnigan...Mark manned the leaf blower!

It was late in the season, but we still saw the Sal-mon running...its called the Salmon Run, but they don't actually run. There were lots of dead Sal-mon, and it was really stinky.

The seagulls come and pick the eyes out of the Sal-mon's sockets.

This bird just decided to post up on this dead Sal-mon.

This video shows Sal-mons swimming, and likely laying eggs. They are real tired, so they don't swim much anymore. When they get to tired to even attempt to swim, they just float down the river until they wind up at their final resting place.