Happy 204 Everyone!

Today is April 20th, which in the US is 4/20 (in the rest of the world its 20/4).

Feliz Cumpleaños a Losida

Sorry for the delay in blogging, but yesterday was Losida's birthday. Who the heck is Losida, you ask? Well, she's a lovely gal-pal that we met here in Buenos Aires. No, she's not a former Mexican maid or the daughter of a Latin American Dictator, but rather a temporary ex-pat (like Gav and I) who is from the Grand Canyon State who has been here in the city with us for the past few months. We originally met at the first Spanish school that Gav and I attended (horrible school, but we met a lot of fun people).

To celebrate her birthday, we joined the German ex-pats Celia & Kata and had a fab dinner at swanky Bar Uriarte. I had veal ravioli (yes, I eat veal), Gavin had adado (Argentinean bbq) with grilled veggies and Losida had saffron risotto with braised lamb.

After dinner (and desserts!) we went to see the drag show at Sitges Bar. Gavin and Losida are completely in love with this particular drag queen and I have to agree that the show (complete with a VegasShowGirl type Argentinean woman) is great. Its always fun seeing drag queens a foreign place, especially when they are speaking another language. At one point in the show, the drag queen came down into the audience, threw her scarf in my face (¡la concha de la lorra!) and started to sing to Gavin and I. Figuring out that I didn't know what the song was about (Gavin claims that he understood "most" of the song), she stopped the music and asked if we spoke Spanish. (For those of you who have never had a drag queen stop a show and ask you a question, I can tell you that it's a terrifying experience. I can hardly answer a 6' tall make up wearing man in English, let alone Spanish! ¡Que terible!

We got home around 3am and stayed up for awhile discussing various topics pertinent to our socialite lives. I love birthdays. They are a fun way to tell your friends how much you value their friendship!


Quick! What do get when you throw two guys and a girl into a jacuzzi tub with lots of bubbles and champagne?

You have lots of good ole clean fun!

You Must Be This Tall To Ride This Ride

For the record: I love being tall. "Some people" say that I am height-ist, but then I have to remind them that I have a lot of shorter friends. In fact, I'd say that most of my female friends are under 6'. See, if I really was a height-snob, I wouldn't have any short friends. Take that!

Also for the record: I am not complaining about my height. I'm constantly helping people put their luggage in the overhead bins on the airplane or reaching canned goods from the top shelf for little old ladies in the supermarket ... and I am happy doing it. I see it as my civil duty. Kind of like an ambassador of tall people (if Angelina Jolie can be the UN Goodwill Ambassador, then I can be an ambassador for tall people.)

Where am I going with this nonsense???

Oh yes. Now I remember.

Here in Argentina, I am unusually taller than most people. I am constantly the tallest guy at the bars and dance clubs (not to mention that there are pretty much no Asians or hapa people in this city). I constantly have to watch my head when I enter older buildings and a lot of things are built for shorter people. I have to bend my head a lot to fit under the shower and I'm always hunched over the kitchen sink since the counter tops are a bit shorter than what I'm used to. Just tonight, Gavin said that I need to stand on an "Un-box" or even better .. he was going to dig a little whole for me to stand in as I do the dishes.

Oh the price I pay for being tall.

Congratulations Julia!

Congratulations to my little sister who is graduated with a BS in Nursing from the University of Hawaii-Hilo next month. I'm extremely proud of her and I can't wait until she is making more money than our parents! (Making more money than her older brother is easy since he doesn't have a job now! Get a job you lazy bum!)

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend her commencement ceremony in Hilo since I'll still be in Buenos Aires. Now the pressure falls on our brother to finish his studies (hint, hint).

Way to go!


Kailee & Julia. Easter 2007. Hilo, HI

todavía estamos aca en buenos aires

Hola Chicos! Como estan?

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't updated my blog is almost 3 months (thank you JeffH, KathyK and JoeD), so I figured that it was about time that I got off of my lazy butt and did something. (In my defense, I've been busy going to spanish classes and other things that I'll tell you about later.)

We're are entering month 6 here in South America and we are still going strong. We have plans to be here until the end of May and then we're going to Peru to visit Cuzco and Machu Picchu. After that, the plan is to return to the US (via Washington DC and with a trip to visit Gav's fam in Norfolk) and then we're going to head west. (GO WEST! We saw the Pet Shop Boys live in concert here last month. So camp!)

I have so many things to blog about, so you'll have to excuse the mess if I start jumping around from date to date.

More to come.