I love following your family and these pictures are fantastic. Everyone looks so happy, parrots are just drawn to you! We have had a great visit with Miss Maddie and Catie and Mary. All of the fun has just worn us out!! Tonight Becky Banko met us at the hotel, I talked with Kathy last week and she told me Becky lived here. Kathy Banko will become a grandmother in October, can you believe it?
I miss you all and look forward to following your adventures. Buenas noches!
Where is the man with the accordion? What have you done with Pepe's master? I see Emily Jane. I see Claire. I see Pepe. But where is the man with the accordion. Perhaps we will get to see Sean playing Malaguena with Pepe on his shoulder tomorrow. Have the MacDonald's caused another international incident?
We were able to read this while we were in San Antonio with the children, but since we only had the cell phone, it was too hard to comment. There was also the little matter of all the children. The funny thing is that when we were at Sea World, they released these parrots that looked exactly like those in the picture. So, we shared a parrot experience.
We stayed in the most beautiful and child-friendly resort. Hyatt Hill Country. It had this beautiful stone pool and a "river" flowed out from the pool and meandered its way for about a 1/2 mile and then came right back to the pool. All the children would simply grab a tube and float around. Some serious hydraulic engineering there. There were kids everywhere and nobody seemed to care if someone's child yelled a little or splashed a little. We will go back there. Megan and Kaley were wonderful with Catie, so little Catie was not quite as lonely as she might have been. Brian, Amy, Brian and Abigail were there also, so it was a busy, happy time. Tricia spent the days with Mary which I think made an enormous difference. It was really a wonderful thing for her to do and Mary's eyes just lit up when she learned that Tricia would be helping for a whole week. By the way, Catie is so much like Mary that I kept calling her Mary. There is a lot of personality packed into that two-year old princess. We loved every minute with her -- well we loved 95% of the minutes.
As you note, the best way to learn something of a city is to walk around. Valparaiso looks like a hiker's dream with those steep hills, but El Paso ain't exactly flat. Somehow, your BLOG reminds us of the Bronx and Guanajuato. We loved walking around Guanajuato because it also had a wonderful mix of the old and the new. One morning, we encountered this gentleman with his burro loaded with some merchandise. He could have been a cousin of Emiliano Zapata because he had the sombrero, the big moustache, the white cotton outfit and of course the burro. Then, he whips out his cellphone to answer a call and we knew that the old and the new were truly blended. Guanajuato, besides being the cleanest and prettiest city we have ever visited also had some characteristics similar to how you describe Valparaiso. The colors,the hills, the wonderful people. There was no grafitti in Guanajuato, but the houses and stores themselves were so colorful. The hills were really steep and guess what -- they had ascensores also.
It sounds really great and we can't get over the beautiful apartment, the broad harbor vista and the incredibly pretty university building. If we weren't so crazy busy here, we'd have to pop down to sample the scene.
Tell Miss Claudia that Mom loves to pat her name each day as it is still on our refrigerator. Actually, it has so much tape holding it there that I suspect it will be there 10 years from now.
Because you never know when a man playing an accordion with his pet parrot, Pepe, might amble by!
I love following your family and these pictures are fantastic. Everyone looks so happy, parrots are just drawn to you! We have had a great visit with Miss Maddie and Catie and Mary. All of the fun has just worn us out!! Tonight Becky Banko met us at the hotel, I talked with Kathy last week and she told me Becky lived here. Kathy Banko will become a grandmother in October, can you believe it?
ReplyDeleteI miss you all and look forward to following your adventures.
Buenas noches!
Where is the man with the accordion? What have you done with Pepe's master? I see Emily Jane. I see Claire. I see Pepe. But where is the man with the accordion. Perhaps we will get to see Sean playing Malaguena with Pepe on his shoulder tomorrow. Have the MacDonald's caused another international incident?
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ReplyDeleteWe were able to read this while we were in San Antonio with the children, but since we only had the cell phone, it was too hard to comment. There was also the little matter of all the children. The funny thing is that when we were at Sea World, they released these parrots that looked exactly like those in the picture. So, we shared a parrot experience.
We stayed in the most beautiful and child-friendly resort. Hyatt Hill Country. It had this beautiful stone pool and a "river" flowed out from the pool and meandered its way for about a 1/2 mile and then came right back to the pool. All the children would simply grab a tube and float around. Some serious hydraulic engineering there. There were kids everywhere and nobody seemed to care if someone's child yelled a little or splashed a little. We will go back there. Megan and Kaley were wonderful with Catie, so little Catie was not quite as lonely as she might have been. Brian, Amy, Brian and Abigail were there also, so it was a busy, happy time. Tricia spent the days with Mary which I think made an enormous difference. It was really a wonderful thing for her to do and Mary's eyes just lit up when she learned that Tricia would be helping for a whole week. By the way, Catie is so much like Mary that I kept calling her Mary. There is a lot of personality packed into that two-year old princess. We loved every minute with her -- well we loved 95% of the minutes.
As you note, the best way to learn something of a city is to walk around. Valparaiso looks like a hiker's dream with those steep hills, but El Paso ain't exactly flat. Somehow, your BLOG reminds us of the Bronx and Guanajuato. We loved walking around Guanajuato because it also had a wonderful mix of the old and the new. One morning, we encountered this gentleman with his burro loaded with some merchandise. He could have been a cousin of Emiliano Zapata because he had the sombrero, the big moustache, the white cotton outfit and of course the burro. Then, he whips out his cellphone to answer a call and we knew that the old and the new were truly blended. Guanajuato, besides being the cleanest and prettiest city we have ever visited also had some characteristics similar to how you describe Valparaiso. The colors,the hills, the wonderful people. There was no grafitti in Guanajuato, but the houses and stores themselves were so colorful. The hills were really steep and guess what -- they had ascensores also.
It sounds really great and we can't get over the beautiful apartment, the broad harbor vista and the incredibly pretty university building. If we weren't so crazy busy here, we'd have to pop down to sample the scene.
Tell Miss Claudia that Mom loves to pat her name each day as it is still on our refrigerator. Actually, it has so much tape holding it there that I suspect it will be there 10 years from now.