Home Sweet Home

Buenos Aires is like New York meets Paris with a Latin flair. It's enormous, beautiful, congested, full (of cars, people, parks, cafes, restaurants, shops, sites...), busy but not rushed, and quite frankly - overwhelming. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of everything - whether it was people, goods, or choices. I spent days just wandering aroung, which I admittedly love. Just walked and walked and took it all in...stopping every now and again for a cup of coffee (sooo good), to people watch, to sit in a garden and litterally smell the roses, or to write in my journal. And of course, I took a few photos...

Tango...a family affair in La Boca
La Boca in all it's colorful splendor

Ah, San Telmo market...these two were tame compared with some others!

Yes, he was just as creepy looking in person, and no, I would not have gotten that close if he was real!!!

Creative advertisement for condoms...

Grafiti - meet art

DC has pandas, MD has crabs, and BA has bulls

Yes that IS Barney's head you see in the Rose Garden :)

They heard I was in town...

Crazy chuchi mall...mirrors everywhere...couldn't afford a thing, but the bathroom was nice ;)

Yep...that's just ONE WAY!!!

There is a law that limits dog walkers to 10....the sidewalks are land mines of dog poop!

The mothers of the missing are quite active in the community

Talk about a good spot for a tree house :)

OK, so BA was beautiful...but I missed Paraguay!

Back in good 'ole Paraguay....we began our summer futbol (soccer) tournament yesterday. Good times :) Rain held off until we were finished for the day, por suerte!

More to come soon... Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and took time to remember all the wonderful people/memories/things/etc....you have in your life.

Sending love and happiness,

Lor

Vacation!

Woooohoooo!!! Going on vacation :) Omarcha!!!

I leave Saturday for a week in Buenos Aires...soooo excited!!! Although that's probably pretty obvious. I'll be meeting my buddy Kevin there; where we'll relax in a beautiful apartment in Palermo, eat good food, take in the sights, walk a ton, rest in the gardens and plazas, and dance the night away. Sounds like heaven, no? I'll let you know if I come back ;)

On Tuesday I went out to a friend's site near Acahay (which means here it is) to make masks with the kids for Halloween. They LOVED it! I made a goop out of flour, water and food coloring that was deliciously messy and oh so fun :) He told the "history" of Halloween and I think had a few of them scared...witches...monsters...you know, it can be a little nerve racking. Had our first trick or treaters at 6:45 am...they wanted to make sure Bri didn't run out of candy I think. He lives in the campo (country) and it's beautiful! As much as I love my site, I still love getting out to where there is no light pollution and people go to bed at 9pm. In contrast, I came home Wednesday because it was Alfredo's 5th birthday and I WAS NOT going to miss it! The party started about 9:30pm and some of his best friends were still out playing when I left at 11pm!

My dad came to visit last weekend...good times! Everyone was sooo excited to meet him and truly amazed at how much we look alike. At least now they believe I really do come from somewhere and I really do have family. It was also nice to be able to share my Paraguayan home and life with someone from my other home. Good thing he left when he did though, when it was a balmy 37 celsius and we at least had a fan to cool off by...it was 43 with blazing sun yesterday and Monday, when it hit 45, our power went out. No fan...no breeze...nothing but humid disgustingness. So what to do? Sit in the shade and drink terere por supuesto.

Gotta run for now...work to be done and terere to drink before I leave! Hope you all had a great Halloween and that life is treating you well.
Sending you lots of love,
Lor