Saturday, June 16, 2007
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I found this picture of Anthony from last year and I'm trying to figure out why he looked so angry! It must have been hot outside....or he was hungry...low blood sugar, yeah, that's it!
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I forgot to post pictures from our 4th anniversary. I remembered that all I had before was pictures from our wedding day!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Graduation parties
We went to 2 graduation parties this past weekend, one was for our Pastor's daughter, Joi , and the other was for Anthony's drummer's son, Devin.
Amazing yard
Anthony's drummer, Bennett and his wife, have an amazing backyard - 4.5 acres! It takes him 4 hours to mow it.
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Horseshoes
Anthony played horseshoes for a while.
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Dad and grad
Bennett gave a heartfelt speech about his son before they cut the cake...it was touching.
Joi the grad
Our pastors' daughter, Joi. She received a full athletic scholarship (volleyball) to attend a university in Michigan.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Back Home Again
I absolutely LOVE traveling, but I hate the process of traveling. I left Chile last night at 8:50pm and arrived in Miami around 5:30 this morning. After a 5-hour layover in Miami, I finally got on my plane to Philadelphia (which was delayed by about an hour). I almost missed my connecting flight to Philly, but by the grace of God, the plane hadn't arrived yet, and was delayed by about 30 minutes. It's good to be home! Anthony and I will be off to Sweden again in about 2 weeks to visit with his sister Miki and her family. We're really excited about that trip.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Pictures from Chile
For some reason, I couldn't post pictures to the blog yesterday, so you'll have to go down a few entries to see what I wrote about my trip to Chile.
Santiago, Chile
This is the husband and wife research team on the right, their 13-yr-old daughter in the middle, and me and Sharon on the left.
This is for Anthony...it is the major telecommunications company. Any idea what look they were going for with this building?
I should have known I was in the right country when I saw this. This is the warning that comes on all cigarette packs. It translates as "Caution! These cigarettes are killing you."Big Mary, Little Jesus? Hmmm...
Catholicism is central to the culture here. When we got to the top of the mountain (by the national park), we saw this huge statue of Mary. You can get an idea of the scale by looking at the people at the bottom of the statue. There were huge stairs leading up to Mary.
This statue of Jesus was like a tenth of the size of Mary, at the bottom of the stairs, and off in a little cove. Completely different from the way I see things! They have mass here on Sundays.Santiago views
There are breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains here.
I love this picture, because it looks like the sun is trying to burst through the clouds. The cloud cover was so thick, which is typical for Santiago because of the surrounding mountains (no ventilation). They only get relief when it rains, which it did this day. The rain clears up the sky and the result is...
THIS! Amazing views of the snow-capped Andes mountains.The Fundicular
Me, my student and my colleague on the ski-lift thingy, going up the side of the mountain through Santiago's national park. It was soooo scary, but the view was amazing. The thought of being suspended so high above the ground, in a ski-lift thingy that is held up and moving across a thin cable...ugh...nauseating!
Sharon, pretending she was scared. She actually was voicing her fear before we got up there, but I was the one who started freaking out as soon as we got in!
A view from the outside...this is what we were riding in!The Winery
This was how the vineyards looked at Concho y Toro, the biggest winery in Chile. There are rose bushes at the front of each row so that the parasites attack the roses instead of the grapes. They are at the end of the harvest, so most of the grapes were gone.
Wine barrels - that's me in the orange scarf.Great dining
This was our first night out, at a little tapas restaurant. Tapas are little meals, and they are common in Spain.
This was the most classy Pizza Hut I've ever seen!Friday, June 01, 2007
Chile
I've been in Santiago, Chile (South America) since Monday morning. I left Sunday afternoon (5pm) and arrived Monday morning, at 8:30am. It's neat, because we're in the same time zone, so there's no time difference between here and Pennsylvania. It's winter here, and they'll go forward an hour in the spring, when we go back an hour in the fall...there'll be a 2 hour difference between us in September.
I was asked to collaborate on a childhood obesity project here, with some colleagues of mine that I was in grad school with. It's a husband and wife research team...they are the sweetest couple you've ever met. Their daughters were in my study when they were still in State College (they left in 2000), and now their daughters are teenagers...it was crazy to see them all grown up.
I brought my student, Sharon, along with me, because she is interested in working with Latino populations, and she's fluent in Spanish. I speak enough Spanish to get by, but I've kinda been depending on her to help us navigate the system. When we haven't been working, we've been sight seeing...we went to the oldest winery in Chile, and yesterday we rode something similar to a ski lift up the mountain. The mountain separated the north and south sides of Santiago, and it was so beautiful.
This is one of the driest countries in South America, but it rained for the first time in months yesterday. Because they're surrounded by mountains, there is little ventilation, so there's a lot of smog...they only get relief when it rains, so yesterday was the first day we saw the Andes mountains, and they had snow on them! Tomorrow we'll take a tour of the coast/beach area, which is supposed to be beautiful even in the winter. By the way, winter here is like Fall in Pennsylvania...low to mid 60s. We'll be leaving on Sunday night and with all the stinking transfers, we won't be back in State College until late Monday afternoon. I love traveling, but it's the "getting there" that stinks.
Enjoy the pics.
I was asked to collaborate on a childhood obesity project here, with some colleagues of mine that I was in grad school with. It's a husband and wife research team...they are the sweetest couple you've ever met. Their daughters were in my study when they were still in State College (they left in 2000), and now their daughters are teenagers...it was crazy to see them all grown up.
I brought my student, Sharon, along with me, because she is interested in working with Latino populations, and she's fluent in Spanish. I speak enough Spanish to get by, but I've kinda been depending on her to help us navigate the system. When we haven't been working, we've been sight seeing...we went to the oldest winery in Chile, and yesterday we rode something similar to a ski lift up the mountain. The mountain separated the north and south sides of Santiago, and it was so beautiful.
This is one of the driest countries in South America, but it rained for the first time in months yesterday. Because they're surrounded by mountains, there is little ventilation, so there's a lot of smog...they only get relief when it rains, so yesterday was the first day we saw the Andes mountains, and they had snow on them! Tomorrow we'll take a tour of the coast/beach area, which is supposed to be beautiful even in the winter. By the way, winter here is like Fall in Pennsylvania...low to mid 60s. We'll be leaving on Sunday night and with all the stinking transfers, we won't be back in State College until late Monday afternoon. I love traveling, but it's the "getting there" that stinks.
Enjoy the pics.
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