First of the Year - 2009

The first of the year… I’m sitting here in bed and I’m writing this post on my laptop which means that I won’t be able to save this post to my blog until I get back home. Bummer… but I get to write.

I’m not feeling 100% right now; partly because I ate too much last night :) and partly because I’m probably starting to get sick. Anna is also here next to me and she has a sore throat so that means that I’m probably getting sick from her. Oh well, I just hope that we’re better in 10 days so that it won’t affect our trip back to the US.

We had such a great time yesterday. We ate dinner at 10:30 and got HECKA loud at midnight when we got to 2009. We drank Cidra and hugged and kissed everyone wishing them a great new year. Then came the super fun part! I had spent a fair amount of money buying fireworks earlier in the day and we went outside to light them! It was great to see Anna be the first one to go get our fireworks and yell “VAMOS!” at me from the other end of the house. We went outside and had a blast lighting all the fireworks! You’ll see a video of it soon :)

We then went back inside and stayed up until about 2 or 2:30 eating more food, laughing with the family, and playing cards. By the way, Anna is kicking my butt in Speed 11-7. We’re going with a lifetime score keeping until someone is 15 games ahead… I hope we never reach that or if we do, I hope that I win, haha!

I gotta get up now but I really do want to thank God for this new year and for the opportunity that he gave me to see the rest of my family here in Argentina that I never get to see. I haven’t seen my family for over 8 years!! It’s such a blessing, thank you LORD. And thank you LORD for my wife and for our first holidays together as a married couple. It’s been great and I cannot wait to see how this next year shapes up and what You have in store for us. Thank you.

Argentina Trip Day 1 - 3

Daaaaaaang! I´m in ma home country!! I still can´t believe it!! It´s pretty hot but not unbearable and suffocating like my mom and siter had said. Today is hotter than the first 2.

We got to the airport just fine and everything went SO smoothely! Praise God for that. Even our customs line in Arg was really short. My dad took over 3 hours to do what we did in just over 20 minutes, haha. We ate and ate and ate that day with Argentinean bbq called asado, sandwiches de miga, and our famous mate. I´m loving life!...... minus my allergies that sprout up when it´s really humid. I really feel that the LORD was taking care of me when He took me out of Arg. I would have lived with allergies and allergy medicine if I would have stayed here... Well, until a cure or something that would lessen it would be found.

Anyways, we went to sleep at 1am or so here. We felt pretty tired, but I just couldn´t go t osleep out of my excitement for being here. Anna was clearly not as excited (hahaha) cause she was sleepy and took 3 naps :)

Yesterday we woke up early and were still tired. We woke up at 10 am which would be 4am in Cali time. We were pretty jacked up with our body time. Today, the third day, we woke up at noon and feel a lot better. But yesterday we ended up getting some good breakfast and then heading up to see part of our family from my mom´s side and I seriously had the best asado that I have ever had!

I´m all over the place, but now that I mentioned who we saw I want to mention that my uncle Pocho (Oscar) and my two cousins came. I hadn´t seen my cousins in 8 and a hlaf years!! That´s FOREVER in Hispanic time for seeing family!!! And the first night (the 25th) my two best friends here in Arg came and kicked it with us! It was like I never left. We were joking around and dreaming of what would have been... at the same time realizing that we have very different lives... Yesterday I saw my mom´s aunt and her 2 cousins with their husbands and kids. It was great!!

I gotta go now, because we´re leaving to Jujuy in 3 hours so we gotta pack, but I´ll give an update in a few days again. I have SO many videos and pictures already and we just started!!!

Almost Ready for Argentina

So I'm here updating my music so that I can take it in my new phone and I'm up waaaaaaay too late.... but then again, my adrenaline will take over tomorrow :) I can't wait to share the videos and pictures with everyone!!!