I have always been reluctant to tell others that I am fasting in order to avoid the sin of the Pharisees: fasting just to gain recognition for themselves. At this point in my life, I strongly believe that this attitude is a result of a wrong interpretation of our Lord’s teaching and that it is [...]
Japanese Garden
Last week after dropping off Ezra at school Paula, Noah and I visited the Japanese Gardens in the barrio of Palermo. We have always loved Japanese culture and food so this outing was a pleasant experience although the real reason we went was to fulfill Kalaidoscope requirements. We learned that this traditional garden was donated [...]
pura vida juice bar
Paula and I found an awesome fresh juice place today in Recoletta. For the past few weeks we had been craving fresh juice, smoothies etc….Saturday has become our family day for right now and since it was so beautiful sunny we decided to hang out in Recoletta at this juice bar. Paula and Ezra had [...]
immigration
A couple days ago I spent 9 hours at immigration. I started waiting in line with Mark Hobson (another missionary) at 2 AM. When we arrived we were already 2 hours behind the first people in line. These people arrived and started waiting in line at 10 PM the night before. It was surprising to [...]
a sunny weekend
there are wonderful art fairs around BA, selling jewelry, pottery, t-shirts and all types of leather products! here are the photos of the four of us hanging out in the Recoleta artisans fair…and then the famous Recoleta cemetery, where Eva Peron is buried…
here we Go! this is our first time using this stroller as a [...]
birthday party
Ezra’s first week at Washington School has been awesome primarily because he is making Argentine friends. He has about 20 classmates that he is with for 3 hours 5 days a week. In fact, Paula and I just came back from a birthday party that one of his new found friends was having. The last [...]
what a day
Our day began at about 3 AM when a huge thunder storm rolled into Belgrano. It was really loud and extremely windy/rainy outside. As we tried to sleep we could not ignore the gut feelings that something was seriously wrong. Sure enough when we walked into our living room half of it was flooded. Apparently [...]
