De vuelta en casa// Back home

Diego estuvo fuera el fin de semana. Operaron a su papá la semana pasada, y Diego fue a verlo y a estar con el unos días. A las niñas les dio mucho gusto ver a su papá hoy en la mañana y saber que su yayo (abuelo) está bien y recuperándose rápidamente en su casa.

Te mandamos un beso y un abrazo muy fuerte.

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Diego was gone for the weekend. His dad had surgery last week, and he went to see him and spend some time with him. The girls were happy to see him again and hear from him that their grandpa is doing fine and recovering quickly at home.

Another day in pictures

Well, actually, just four hours.
But still, I´m exhausted!

Our day in pictures

En el museo de ciencias, antes del mediodía.
At the Museum, sometime before noon.

En un restaurant, a eso de las 3.
At a restaurant, around 3PM.

En el parque de la colonia, alrededor de las 6.
At the park by our house, around 6PM

En la casa, cerca de las 9PM.
At home, around 9PM

Favorites // Favoritos (comida/food)

Me encanta toda la comida que prepara Diego. Sobre todo los platillos que un amigo de la India le enseñó a preparar. Su especialidad es el potato curry (muy parecido al de la foto, pero con menos caldo). La foto fue tomada del blog A Mad Tea Party, y ahí mismo está la receta que utiliza los mismos ingredientes que usa Diego.

I love all the food that Diego cooks. Specially, the Indian dishes he learned how to make by watching one of his friends from India preparing them. His specialty is potato curry. It looks more or less like the one in the picture (which by the way, was taken from the blog A Mad Tea Party and I believe the ingredients listed there are the same ingredients that Diego uses. But his is less soupy.

Y aunque esto no es comida, me encantan los Miguelitos. Azúcar salada, enchilada y acidulada, cuyo ingrediente secreto parece ser el plomo. Pero no me importa!

Nota: La foto de los Miguelitos la tomé del blog meloncorp.com

And even though this is not food, I love Miguelitos -a powder made of sugar, salt and chile. Apparently, its secret ingredient is lead. But I don´t care!

Note: This picture was taken from the blog meloncorp.com

Summer already?

Aunque según el calendario todavía es invierno, aquí en esta parte del mundo ya es pleno verano. La temperatura ha estado desde hace un par de semanas alrededor de los 36 grados C. De hecho, el invierno nunca llegó. Y la primavera no esperó al calendario para llegar y con la misma marcharse. Todo en menos de una semana. La única huella que dejó fueron unos hermosos árboles cargados de flores amarillas. Pero su paso fue tan rápido que ni tiempo me dio de fotografiarlos. Pero no me quejo, este clima nos encanta.


Even though the calendar says it´s winter, in this part of the world it´s summer already. The temperature has been around the 95-100F for a couple of weeks. In fact, winter was never here. And spring just came for a week to leave us a yellow touch of beautiful blooming trees. But it´s almost gone now. It lasted only a week and I didn´t have time to take pictures. I´m not complaining, though. We love this weather.

aZOOMATe // ZOOm in

... al ZOOMAT.
Encuentra los tres monos araña en la foto.

At the ZOOMAT. Find the three spider monkeys in the picture.

Favoritos// Favorites

I haven´t finished posting about my favorite things, and I´ve been tagged again.

Books
It´s sad but I´m not reading anything at the moment. I have several books that I borrowed from the library a month ago, but I haven´t have time to read them. So, I guess I´ll have to renew them in a couple of days. Some of the books I have are:

Poetry Speaks, an anthology which includes 3 audio CDs; The game of words by Willard R. Espy; and, Noah Webster and the American Dictionary by David Micklethwait.

Carmen reads Mafalda very often. And when she does, she asks me to read it with her.

Music
São Vicente de Longe, Cesária Évora


Há uma música do povo (a poem by Fernando Pessoa),Mariza


I also love to listen to "radio ombligo" (1)("belly button radio"), a radio program that broadcasts music for children, every morning (well, this semester that I´m teaching at 7AM, I just listen to it twice a week.)

(1)If you want to listen to a program you can click on "Escucha el ombligo nuestro de cada dia" to play a program from the archives. Or you can click the play button where it says "transmitiendo desde el cerro del rebote" to listen to songs, not the program.

Movies
I want to watch Fraude

TV
I don´t watch TV. But in the States, I used to watch Law and Order and here, I watched some episodes of The Sopranos a program Diego was addicted to.

Cumpleanhos de Diego// Diego´s Birthday

El martes fue cumpleanhos de Diego. Ese dia tempranito le cantamos las manhanitas y le regalamos un CD. A la hora de la comida, Carmen le dio una tarjeta que le hizo en la escuela y sugirio que fueramos a un restaurant chino que le gusta a Diego, para festejarlo. Comimos muy rico, pero no hubo pastel. Yo pensaba hacerlo este fin de semana. Pero al final, terminamos comprandolo.


Last Tuesday was Diego´s birthday. We gave him a CD and Carmen made him a card. After school, Carmen suggested to go to a Chinese restaurant that Diego likes, to celebrate his birthday. We had a nice dinner, but we didn´t have cake that day. I was planning to make one on the weekend, but today we ended up buying one at the store.

Happy Valentine´s! // Feliz Dia del amor y la amistad!

Carmen at her 5th Birthday Party (2 years ago.) Carmen cuando cumplio 5 anhos (hace dos anhos).

Morelia

Es la ciudad favorita de Isabel. This is Isabel´s favorite city. El jardín de las Rosas. Las Rosas square.

Caminando con Yayon y la tía Juanita por el centro de la ciudad.








En el parque infantil.








En el centro durante la semana de celebración del día de muertos.

Downtown during the celebration of the Day of the Dead.








Con el tío Edu en el hotel de la Soledad.








Con la tía Eva frente a la catedral.













En el zoológico.

Gainesville

Gainesville is Carmen´s favorite city because of her friends. She misses them.
Gainesville es la ciudad favorita de Carmen, sobre todo por sus amigos.

Favoritos// Favorites (ciudades//cities)

3. Ciudades donde he vivido.
Por mucho tiempo Mazatlan fue mi ciudad favorita. Quiza porque ahi vivi de ninha por 7 anhos y eso es lo mas que he vivido en un lugar en toda mi vida.

La ciudad de Mexico es otra de mis ciudades favoritas. Ahi vivi 5 anhos mientras estudiaba la licenciatura. Me encanta la ciudad, pero ahora solo me gusta ir de vacaciones por temporadas cortas. Sobre todo en semana santa que se vacia la ciudad.

Cuernavaca fue otra ciudad donde vivimos muy agusto. Nos fuimos alla a escribir las tesis y viajabamos al DF cada dos semanas aproximadamente para ver a nuestros asesores. No teniamos hijas todavia y nos la pasabamos junto a la alberca tomando cervezas. Saliamos a pasear al centro, ibamos a bares o a comer al Marco Polo, un restaurant de comida italiana.

Gainesville, Florida, es otra ciudad especial para nosotros. Ahi vivimos por casi 7 anhos. Estudiamos la maestria y el doctorado, hicimos muy buenos amigos de todo el mundo y ahi nacieron nuestras hijas.

Pero, mi ciudad favorita es la ciudad donde naci: La Paz. Solo vivi 4 anhos ahi (durante la prepa), pero la mayoria de mis vacaciones las he pasado alla.

3. Cities where I've lived
For a long time Mazatlan was my favorite city. Maybe, because I lived there for 7 years when I was growing up (and that's the longest I've lived in one place.)

As an undergrad, I loved living in Mexico City. Now, I just love to go there on vacations, specially during the last week of Lent when lots of people leave the city to go to the beach or visit other touristic destinations.

Cuernavaca was another city where we had a great time. We went there to write our thesis and went to Mexico City every two weeks. We didn't have kids then, so we could spend most of the time by the pool drinking beers. We also went downtown quiet often to some bars and to an Italian restaurant we really like.

Gainesville, Florida, is another special city for us. We lived there for almost 7 years. We went to grad school, made very good friends from all the world, and had our daughters.

But my favorite city of them all -even though, I've only lived 4 years of my life (when I was in high school)- is La Paz. This is the city where I was born and where I have spent most of my vacations.

Art for the Sky Balandra// Unidos por Balandra

"Este sábado 9 de febrero de 2008, a las dos de la tarde, Organizaciones civiles ambientales y otras instituciones invitan a la población de La Paz a que forme parte de una escultura humana que dibujará un tiburón martillo, en la playa de Balandra. Dicha imagen será captada desde el aire por el estadounidense: Daniel Dancer, artista conceptual que ha fotografiado formas colectivas alrededor del mundo (www.artforthesky.com) El evento tiene como objetivo generar conciencia entre la población con respecto a la necesidad de proteger a Balandra."

Campaign to save Balandra from commercial development. This event is going to be held this Saturday (Feb. 9) at 2PM. People from La Paz are being invited to go to Balandra to be part of a human sculpture with the form of a hammerhead shark. The image will be captured from the air by the American Daniel Dancer, conceptual artist who has photographed collective forms around the world (www.artforthesky.com) The event aims to raise awareness among the people about the need to protect Balandra

Art For the Sky is a unique, large group, team building activity for schools, special events, festivals and corporations that awakens our ability to see that elusive Big Picture. These magnificent group creations, which only make sense when viewed from high above, are a whole-body way of stimulating our imagination and helping us understand our interconnection with one another and all life

Encontre un blog con fotos preciosas de Balandra.
I found a blog with great pictures of Balandra.

Aparecio!//I recovered it!

Aparecio mi bolsa! Me la acaban de entregar. Alguien la devolvio ayer a la oficina de la universidad donde trabajo. Estoy feliz! Feliz! Feliz!

I recovered my handbag! The secretary just gave it to me. Somebody returned it to the coordinator's office in one of the universities where I work. I'm so happy! Happy! Happy! Happy!