Honey Moon

Tortuguero beach (caribean)

We whent to Costa Rica for our honey moon. Arrived to San Jose at night, and then very very early the next morning we left to Tortuguero it's a very cool island in the Caribian part, it took us 3 hours in a bus, and 1.5 hours in a boat to get there. It was beautifull we whent to the little town, stayed there only one night. The hotel was nice, very natury, we whent in a boat trip to see the animals, got to see some monkeys and a lot of birds, eagles, and turtles.

Black sand from beach in Caribean. Beautiful!

Entrance to our room

From Tortugueros we whent to Arenal, that was a 1.5 hour boat trip, then about 4 hours to Arenal. That is were the Volcano is, but it was very clowdy the days we were there, that the Volcaneno was not visible on any day we were there, we did got to some hot spring waters and then saw some butterflies, ants, and cocodrilles in a little reserve they had. We also whent to the Fortuna water falls, it was amazing, but that day it was raining a little bit...

Hot-springs water in Hotel Los Lagos

Fortuna water fall

From Arenal we whent to the Pacific side, where the weather was much better, but the longest distance in a little van to travel... about 5 hours, but it was very nice, we went to Manuel Antonio, it's a National Park, and it's adorable! very green, and lot's of animals, we saw monkeys, sloths, lot's of lizards, and many other animals, there we whent on a Catamaran tour, we got to see some local dolphins, and a whale, we did some snorkeling as well, it was a lot of fun, saw a lot of fishes, and had some great food, mahi mahi cobob's.

Catamaran, ready to snorkel!

Manuel Antonio

Then from all of that back to San Jose, and then back to Mexico... (back to reality)

little shop on the back to San Jose

Yuhuuu Wedding!

Sorry it took so long to write, but,, the wedding finally passed, it was great... with little details of course....
Like, getting there, yes the flight was CANCELLED! we get to the terminal and what is the news? your flight has just been cancelled,,, well the good thing is that they changed airlines and we did make it to TIJ airport on that day, just 3 hours later.. not soo bad. On the wedding day, the Mariachi forgot they were playing in our wedding so they arrived afther I entered the church,, they were there for the rest of the mass... and then 2 brides maid's were missing,,, but they arrived with the Mariachi. fun at the party and had delicious lobster on that day.. yummy Puerto Nuevo. On out flight back, we had a 2 hour layover in Guadalajara, and then came to Mexico,, and surprise in Mexico our luggage did not make it here with us, we had a flight that afthernoon to leave on our honneymoon. Yes we were hours on leaving to Costa Rica, and our luggage from our wedding trip had not arrive, he whent to Costa Rica with our knowing if our luggage came back, or when they did... (They made it back we were told on monday night... still late for Costa Rica.)

Alebrijes en Reforma

Alebrijes, there is an exposition in one of the main streets here, and it's between my house, and work, they made some Alebrijes (are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures) There were some cool ones, and some that really were not put to a lot of effort. We strolled down as we walked to get some yummy Pozole... and the DIET! ups! yes we are less then the month away....

The Eagle is going to grab me by the head!!

Mi cousin Esteban, his wife Adriana and baby Lilia!

Esteban, Adriana, Lilia, and Joaquin. (and some random guy added to the picture)

Halloween

Halloween! a scary Time! Here in the office people love Halloween, so we entered for 2nd time the contest and we WON! We were a Hospital, there was blood, and body parts (fake of course) all over the place! we had a black light, and a strobe light! ohh yes, now you see why we won. I took my nice trick or treating, here at the offices, she got a LOT of candy, and was dressed as a Dragon.
On the 1st is when people here go out trick or treating... Joaquin dressed ups as Chicky Bicentenario, since everything here is Bicentennial... hahaha... I actually got some candy, and was apparently very famous, every one wanted pictures, with the Mexican Chucky, Mariachi Chicky, Chukote... many names! We had some guayaba, and jam tamales, they were good, with some atole, ohh yes, DIET so close to the wedding!! ahhh.
Here are some pictures, enjoy....

Tepotzotlan

Day of the Dead! I love this day, skull, remembering loved ones, and special delicious bread! yummy!
Well we went to see the "Ofrenda" that is put up on this special time at tepotzotlan, it's famous, and really big, the town is a "Magical Town" there are about 10 towns like this in Mexico. Very Colonial.
The church has gold all over the inside. It used to be a Convent, and now is a museum.
It was Joaquin, and Samuel's (15 days old baby) 1st visit to this Magical Town.

Slava's Snow Show

Well Wednesday, evening, trying to convince each other to go to the gym, we get a call from my friend Mariana, that her mom won some tickets to the show, and they had 2 extra ones, Joaquin and I got to go to "Teatro, Centro Telmex" which was nice too because it was really close to our house. We didn't get traffic to get there, it's a very interactive show. we were cough in a huge spider web, there was snow, and rain... here are some pictures of the show... so yes, Joaquin did not see the 1st game of the world series... It might have been better since he was thinking TX would be winning... ups Score was SF 11 - TX 7.

Bridal Shower take 2

Another Bridal shower, that was so much fun. My co-workers arranged a Bridal Shower for me, it was so much fun, we had great food (Argentinian' at the grill) salads, and a delicious cake! We paid some games, and I received some great advise from the attendees... I am sure I will put to use. Joaquin showed up with some wonderful flowers, and I liked the advise that was given to me from a daughter of my supervisor... "He should always give me flowers" that is great advise. We received place mats, really nice place mats... I guess we like to eat! hahaha and they know. It was a lot of fun.

And there is a new baby here! My cousin Celvia had a Baby Boy this past Friday at 10pm! He is really cute, and very calm as of this Sunday that I got to see him. Here are some pictures of the baby... his name is Samuel Uriel, weight 6.9 lbs. has a cute little nose, and tinny mouth.

Lot's of fun, and Lot's of eating,,, back to the gym!