<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092</id><updated>2011-12-14T07:01:42.301-07:00</updated><category term='First Blogg'/><title type='text'>The love birds from St. Mike's</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>153</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1576460437966063205</id><published>2011-07-14T20:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-14T20:24:03.018-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Mexican markets / Mercados de México</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Okx41K-QJh8/Thnjvu1N0uI/AAAAAAAABmY/PiyilMdPHz8/s1600/IMG_0433.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Okx41K-QJh8/Thnjvu1N0uI/AAAAAAAABmY/PiyilMdPHz8/s400/IMG_0433.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We love Mexican markets. There, the Mexican culture expresses itself in the form of food, art, music, and everything that can be sold/purchased. We enjoy visiting the markets every time we go to Mexico and always wish we could have something like that here. True, there are some farmers’ markets in Calgary but the prices and the folklore we found in Mexico have no equal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nos encantan los mercados mexicanos. Ahí, la cultura mexicana se expresa en forma de comida, arte, música, y todo lo que pueda venderse/comprarse. Disfrutamos mucho visitando los mercados cada vez que vamos a México y siempre deseamos poder tener algo así acá. Es cierto, aquí hay algunos mercados de “campesinos” en Calgary pero los precios y el folklore mexicanos son inigualables. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uyXKFN5ZvYs/ThniihKHzVI/AAAAAAAABmE/T6KGtWlptC8/s1600/IMG_0370.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uyXKFN5ZvYs/ThniihKHzVI/AAAAAAAABmE/T6KGtWlptC8/s400/IMG_0370.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mercado de San Miguel de Allende&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rf2Ha14irso/ThnixiGCUsI/AAAAAAAABmI/BeQT49hnxFQ/s1600/IMG_0381.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rf2Ha14irso/ThnixiGCUsI/AAAAAAAABmI/BeQT49hnxFQ/s400/IMG_0381.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mercado de San Miguel de Allende&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-44tMO7qDD6k/ThniOQHwv3I/AAAAAAAABmA/x4iXpWDxXdA/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-44tMO7qDD6k/ThniOQHwv3I/AAAAAAAABmA/x4iXpWDxXdA/s400/IMG_0005.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Handcraft market in Tequisquiapan / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mercado de artesanías en Tequisquiapan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9kDZ6Bulct0/ThnjElnE1rI/AAAAAAAABmM/ZtJuAIrgsWY/s1600/IMG_0376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9kDZ6Bulct0/ThnjElnE1rI/AAAAAAAABmM/ZtJuAIrgsWY/s400/IMG_0376.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mercado de San Miguel de Allende&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JAzNwUApV_E/ThnjQ7dLpUI/AAAAAAAABmQ/3qq6q49PLK0/s1600/IMG_0383.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JAzNwUApV_E/ThnjQ7dLpUI/AAAAAAAABmQ/3qq6q49PLK0/s400/IMG_0383.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pewter at the Market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;Pewter en el Mercado de San Miguel de Allende&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGDL2jIhpZk/Thnjew1EiXI/AAAAAAAABmU/I1l9jfZCbIQ/s1600/IMG_0385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGDL2jIhpZk/Thnjew1EiXI/AAAAAAAABmU/I1l9jfZCbIQ/s400/IMG_0385.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mercado de San Miguel de Allende&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oI7ma4x47jA/Thnj7ecSotI/AAAAAAAABmc/_5qR5tt70NY/s1600/IMG_0434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oI7ma4x47jA/Thnj7ecSotI/AAAAAAAABmc/_5qR5tt70NY/s400/IMG_0434.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Piñatas at the Market of Tequisquiapan - &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Piñatas en el mercado de Tequisquiapan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvHlyxVmyRQ/ThnneeI99TI/AAAAAAAABmk/FgJh_A7MWb8/s1600/IMG_5469.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvHlyxVmyRQ/ThnneeI99TI/AAAAAAAABmk/FgJh_A7MWb8/s400/IMG_5469.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Fresh fish at the Market of Villahermosa / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Pescado fresco en el mercado de Villahermosa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WDMrX_Ozlqc/Thnoj2MnSyI/AAAAAAAABmo/5hwlSstJ_aQ/s1600/IMG_0364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WDMrX_Ozlqc/Thnoj2MnSyI/AAAAAAAABmo/5hwlSstJ_aQ/s400/IMG_0364.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Angels and other handcrafts at the market of San Miguel de Allende / &lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;Ángeles y otras artesanías en el mercado de San Miguel de Allende &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--YWNwpHVYJo/Th9kcG7NsVI/AAAAAAAABms/2Jse-tukgEc/s1600/Mexico+Christmas+2009+516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--YWNwpHVYJo/Th9kcG7NsVI/AAAAAAAABms/2Jse-tukgEc/s400/Mexico+Christmas+2009+516.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You can buy a hat and some avocados at the market of San Miguel de Allende... / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Puedes comprar un sombrero y aguacates en el mercado de San Miguel de Allende...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IRmuDL00hBQ/Th9oC72fB_I/AAAAAAAABmw/4E7R3LZMStw/s1600/IMG_0373.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IRmuDL00hBQ/Th9oC72fB_I/AAAAAAAABmw/4E7R3LZMStw/s400/IMG_0373.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;...or boots and fresh herbs ... / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;...o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; botas y hierbas...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jiHoahLypJo/Th9oSIwbiZI/AAAAAAAABm0/ZFZQiU_AHjY/s1600/IMG_0374.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jiHoahLypJo/Th9oSIwbiZI/AAAAAAAABm0/ZFZQiU_AHjY/s400/IMG_0374.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;... or belts and food containers, all in the same place / ... &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;o cinturones y botes para comida, todo en el mismo lugar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1576460437966063205?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1576460437966063205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1576460437966063205' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1576460437966063205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1576460437966063205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/07/mexican-markets-mercados-de-mexico.html' title='Mexican markets / Mercados de México'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Okx41K-QJh8/Thnjvu1N0uI/AAAAAAAABmY/PiyilMdPHz8/s72-c/IMG_0433.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7760334835084295654</id><published>2011-07-01T12:52:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T12:59:04.081-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Family time / Tiempo con la familia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QYfJEZgLyQY/Tg4K8WdIi6I/AAAAAAAABlY/uTiBcAaWen8/s1600/IMG_0087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QYfJEZgLyQY/Tg4K8WdIi6I/AAAAAAAABlY/uTiBcAaWen8/s400/IMG_0087.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The main purpose of our trips to Mexico is always to relax and to spend time with the family. This trip was very much all about that. We decided not taking any long trips and just took short, one day trips and basically spent every day with Catalina's family, and we enjoyed that.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El principal propósito de nuestros viajes a México siempre ha sido relajarnos y pasar tiempo con la familia. Este viaje fué así. Decidimos no hacer ningún viaje largo y solo hicimos viajes cortos de un día y básicamente pasamos cada día con la familia de Catalina, y lo disfrutamos mucho.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9mgguLi0TTE/Tg4Kdp7al_I/AAAAAAAABlQ/_LS7saU5qcw/s1600/IMG_0144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9mgguLi0TTE/Tg4Kdp7al_I/AAAAAAAABlQ/_LS7saU5qcw/s400/IMG_0144.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Because the weather was very hot (over 30°C), we spent time in the backyard every day, just hanging out. or walking outside.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Como hacía mucho calor (+ 30°C), &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;pasamos bastante tiempo en el jardín o caminando en la calle.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EaAOgrjAOy8/Tg4Kqb-_hjI/AAAAAAAABlU/Cff55Imgg3w/s1600/IMG_0152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EaAOgrjAOy8/Tg4Kqb-_hjI/AAAAAAAABlU/Cff55Imgg3w/s400/IMG_0152.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7rs6cTRar-g/Tg4X5T-f7YI/AAAAAAAABl8/pKUtn4El-qE/s1600/IMG_0140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7rs6cTRar-g/Tg4X5T-f7YI/AAAAAAAABl8/pKUtn4El-qE/s400/IMG_0140.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZCs7eswPIjs/Tg4J3BWzXYI/AAAAAAAABlI/Q9me7aHy_Ac/s1600/DSC01687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZCs7eswPIjs/Tg4J3BWzXYI/AAAAAAAABlI/Q9me7aHy_Ac/s400/DSC01687.JPG" width="308" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Or shopping, which Catalina loves / &lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;O de compras, lo que le encanta a Catalina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q5LR-LxHa_8/Tg4LbAHMn6I/AAAAAAAABlc/Y62xoz8sh2g/s1600/IMG_0453.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q5LR-LxHa_8/Tg4LbAHMn6I/AAAAAAAABlc/Y62xoz8sh2g/s400/IMG_0453.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Also, ever since Catalina came to Canada (almost ten years ago), she had not been able to celebrate Mamita's birthday with the family, so we planned this trip to be there on mamita's birthday. That day we went out for breakfast to La Charamusca (delicious!) and then to the cheese and wine fair that was just starting (more food!), and finally to cut the cake at Dea's home (kept eating!), where we were planning to get wet in the backyard (but we ended up not feeling like it).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"&gt;Además, desde que Catalina se vino a Canadá (hace casi diez años), no había podido estar con la familia el día del cumpleaños de mamita, así que esta vez planeamos nuestro viaje para poder estar con ella en su cumple. Ese día fuimos todos a desayunar a La Charamusca (¡delicioso!) y después a la feria del queso y del vino que estaba empezando (más comida) y finalmente fuimos a partir el pastel a la casa de Dea (a seguir comiendo), donde habíamos planeado mojarnos en el jardín con agua de la manguera pero finalmente ya no lo hicimos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vXo5qLTpleQ/Tg4QetsR78I/AAAAAAAABlo/eK5KSq9JL7c/s1600/IMG_0581.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vXo5qLTpleQ/Tg4QetsR78I/AAAAAAAABlo/eK5KSq9JL7c/s400/IMG_0581.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mamita in her birthday, enjoying quesadillas / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mamita en su cumpleaños disfrutando sus quesadillas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DXSoRq8Jfvc/Tg4Q2UV2eXI/AAAAAAAABlw/1gKDrw1pcHY/s1600/IMG_0584.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DXSoRq8Jfvc/Tg4Q2UV2eXI/AAAAAAAABlw/1gKDrw1pcHY/s400/IMG_0584.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Carlos, adding lime juice to everything he eats (in this case, Mexican eggs)&lt;/span&gt; / Carlos, añadiendo ljugo de imón a todo lo que come (en este caso, huevos a la Mexicana)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9TOwQJRDp2g/Tg4QUIpsDoI/AAAAAAAABlk/U9R1tmrZTj0/s1600/IMG_0579.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9TOwQJRDp2g/Tg4QUIpsDoI/AAAAAAAABlk/U9R1tmrZTj0/s400/IMG_0579.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paul's molletes with chorizo / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Paul pidió molletes con chorizo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mTfPreZBt7o/Tg4QsUeiL3I/AAAAAAAABls/dPp8Rw1h2pw/s1600/IMG_0580.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mTfPreZBt7o/Tg4QsUeiL3I/AAAAAAAABls/dPp8Rw1h2pw/s320/IMG_0580.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Catalina enjoyed&amp;nbsp;enchiladas&amp;nbsp;from Querétaro&amp;nbsp;/&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Catalina disfrutó enchiladas Queretanas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hTBH4AXQvYo/Tg4S-nHiiqI/AAAAAAAABl0/6PBOD9WJFWI/s1600/DSC01712.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="278" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hTBH4AXQvYo/Tg4S-nHiiqI/AAAAAAAABl0/6PBOD9WJFWI/s400/DSC01712.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uOtrFoOgg5Y/Tg4MDmLxs2I/AAAAAAAABlg/-nAVFtggst4/s1600/IMG_0561.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Start with a white Canadian.  / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Esta es una receta muy sencilla. Comenzar con un Canadiense bien blanquito.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5KSjGkJJ8/Tgk-5FnTy3I/AAAAAAAABks/v4y95Vg22fg/s1600/IMG_0068.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5KSjGkJJ8/Tgk-5FnTy3I/AAAAAAAABks/v4y95Vg22fg/s400/IMG_0068.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Allow him to enjoy himself while swimming at around noon / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Déjelo disfrutar en la alberca al medio día&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R9Y8sBDrTYM/Tgk_H3N1Z1I/AAAAAAAABkw/gVi2P-bQLKE/s1600/IMG_0489.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R9Y8sBDrTYM/Tgk_H3N1Z1I/AAAAAAAABkw/gVi2P-bQLKE/s400/IMG_0489.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Preferably with nice company / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Preferentemente con una compañia agradable&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DyVYSR4w0kU/Tgk_hPQzaRI/AAAAAAAABk0/RZE_LRACyh4/s1600/IMG_0497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DyVYSR4w0kU/Tgk_hPQzaRI/AAAAAAAABk0/RZE_LRACyh4/s400/IMG_0497.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Allow him to rest and marinate under the sun / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Permítale descansar y marinar bajo el sol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MvjMIb_LXOY/TglJMBzSNmI/AAAAAAAABk4/DEhR3u2Lkms/s1600/IMG_0484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MvjMIb_LXOY/TglJMBzSNmI/AAAAAAAABk4/DEhR3u2Lkms/s400/IMG_0484.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And voilá! you get a perfectly cooked&amp;nbsp;Canadian lobster / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Y eso es todo. Obtiene usted una langosta Canadiense perfectamente cocida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3ABRJ3XIn0/TglJWXhdKqI/AAAAAAAABk8/Ab2yBg-PVyo/s1600/IMG_0517.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3ABRJ3XIn0/TglJWXhdKqI/AAAAAAAABk8/Ab2yBg-PVyo/s400/IMG_0517.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7217805414390630149?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7217805414390630149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7217805414390630149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7217805414390630149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7217805414390630149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/06/lobster-recipe-receta-de-langosta.html' title='Lobster recipe / Receta de langosta'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5KSjGkJJ8/Tgk-5FnTy3I/AAAAAAAABks/v4y95Vg22fg/s72-c/IMG_0068.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-4572550679403740469</id><published>2011-06-27T20:26:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-27T20:26:16.131-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Querétaro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V-G5HaIDRYY/TgkgwUV202I/AAAAAAAABkc/4sOm82orM1k/s1600/DSCN0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V-G5HaIDRYY/TgkgwUV202I/AAAAAAAABkc/4sOm82orM1k/s400/DSCN0010.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Querétaro is the most beautiful Spanish word, according to the votes of thousands of Spanish speakers around the world during the Cervantes Institute competition as part of the celebration of the E day (the day when the Spanish language is celebrated all over the world). The Cervantes Institute, presided by the King of Spain, is an Institution created by Spain to promote and teach Spanish, with several centres all over the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The funny part is that "Querétaro" is not in the Spanish dictionary; Querétaro, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;which means (in Purepecha, a native language) "island of blue salamanders" is one of the 31 states of Mexico. The capital of the State is also called Querétaro. Catalina's family live in that State so every time we visit we go to the City of Querétaro and enjoy its colonial environment and delicious food.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Querétaro es la palabra más hermosa del Español, de acuerdo con los votos de miles de personas de habla hispana durante la competencia del Instituto Cervantes como parte de la celebración de día E (el día del Español, que se celebra en todo el mundo). El Instituto Cervantes, cuyo presidente de honor es el Rey de España, es una Institución creada por España para promover y enseñar el idioma Español, con varios Centros en todo el mundo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La parte curiosa es que Querétaro no está en el diccionario de la lengua Española; Querétaro, que significa (en Purépecha) "isla de salamandras azules" es uno de los 31 Estados de la República Mexicana. La capital del Estado también se llama Querétaro. La familia de Catalina viven en ese Estado así que cada vez que vamos a visitarlos viajamos a la Ciudad de Querétaro y disfrutamos su ambiente colonial y comida deliciosa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lpioe-0izZk/TgkfGYsboFI/AAAAAAAABkU/XmoOYykmlZE/s1600/Mexico+Feb+2009+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lpioe-0izZk/TgkfGYsboFI/AAAAAAAABkU/XmoOYykmlZE/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+016.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The famous aqueduct, formed by 74 arches with an average height of 23 m are a symbol of Queréraro City, built between 1726 and 1738 to bring water to the City / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El famoso acueducto, formado por 74 arcos con una altura promedio de 23 m es un símbolo de la ciudad de Querétaro, construido entre 1726 y 1738 para traer agua a la ciudad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbgaWcXaxOA/TgkgrhJ3POI/AAAAAAAABkY/qAI-nRfmmSM/s1600/DSCN0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbgaWcXaxOA/TgkgrhJ3POI/AAAAAAAABkY/qAI-nRfmmSM/s400/DSCN0004.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The statue of Conín, a native Mexican of the Otomi people who helped the Spanish conquer the central part of Mexico. In 1531 he helped found the City of Querétaro and was the first governor of the City / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La estatua de Conin, un nativo Otomí que ayudó a los españoles a conquistar el centro de México. En 1531 ayudó a fundar la Ciudad de Querétaro y fué el primer gobernante de la Ciudad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wpPX_PTD0Fg/Tgke-pgI9dI/AAAAAAAABkQ/ut1dMQINv3w/s1600/Mexico+Feb+2009+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wpPX_PTD0Fg/Tgke-pgI9dI/AAAAAAAABkQ/ut1dMQINv3w/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+017.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;    &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The Holy Cross convent, where the mortal remains of Doña Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez rest. She is a hero of Mexican independence from Spain and she was from Querétaro, a City that played an important role in the independence / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El convento de la Santa Cruz, donde descansan los restos mortales de Doña Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez, una heroína de la independencia de México; ella era la Corregidora de Querétaro, una ciudad que jugó un papel importante en la independencia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GWB5u48k9bg/TgkhDS3vMrI/AAAAAAAABkg/2eNyUZXibSQ/s1600/IMG_0176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GWB5u48k9bg/TgkhDS3vMrI/AAAAAAAABkg/2eNyUZXibSQ/s400/IMG_0176.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;  One of our favorite restaurants in Querétaro / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Uno de nuestros restaurantes favoritos de Querétaro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jc8X4I_1OHo/Tgk5K1BWF1I/AAAAAAAABkk/OhLTkPwCgVo/s1600/DSCN0060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jc8X4I_1OHo/Tgk5K1BWF1I/AAAAAAAABkk/OhLTkPwCgVo/s400/DSCN0060.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The cathedral of Querétaro / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La catedral de Querétaro&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7DE2Wkj5x0/Tgk6FqjNN9I/AAAAAAAABko/4hPCxcLPZKs/s1600/Picture+445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7DE2Wkj5x0/Tgk6FqjNN9I/AAAAAAAABko/4hPCxcLPZKs/s400/Picture+445.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;    &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;With mom (Georgine) and the kids in downtown Querétaro, a few days after our wedding in Mexico almost 5 years ago/ &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;con Georgine y los niños en el centro de Querétaro, unos días depués de nuestra boda en México, hace casi 5 años&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4572550679403740469?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4572550679403740469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4572550679403740469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4572550679403740469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4572550679403740469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/06/queretaro.html' title='Querétaro'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V-G5HaIDRYY/TgkgwUV202I/AAAAAAAABkc/4sOm82orM1k/s72-c/DSCN0010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1052219903609588434</id><published>2011-06-25T20:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T20:57:16.475-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Wine and cheese / Queso y vino</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2SSXl_or40/TgaSO_u0TDI/AAAAAAAABjs/JrfQLkwjD5g/s1600/IMG_0062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2SSXl_or40/TgaSO_u0TDI/AAAAAAAABjs/JrfQLkwjD5g/s400/IMG_0062.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The wines from Queretaro have been receiving more attention lately. With several European awards, Querétaro has become a known place for good wine. During our trip to Mexico, we were able to visit La Redonda vineyard, located about 20 minutes from Tequisquiapan. We toured the vineyard, received an extensive lesson about the different types of grapes and the wine process, and tasted some red &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and rose wine accompanied with cheese from the same region. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Los vinos de Querétaro han estado recibiendo mucha atención últimamente. Con varios premios europeos, Querétaro se ha convertido en un lugar reconocido por sus buenos vinos. Durante nuestro viaje a México, visitamos los Viñedos La Redonda, ubicados a unos 20 minutos de Tequisquiapan. Recorrimos los viñedos, recibimos una plática interesante sobre los tipos de uvas y del proceso de fabricación de vinos, y probamos vinos tintos y rosados bastante ricos, acompañados con queso de la región.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zF6_upeEp90/TgaSmvxPwBI/AAAAAAAABjw/86qBZWQcH2U/s1600/IMG_0055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zF6_upeEp90/TgaSmvxPwBI/AAAAAAAABjw/86qBZWQcH2U/s400/IMG_0055.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FrUxWXO9YNU/TgaXz3coHYI/AAAAAAAABj8/ACxtag4rRuE/s1600/IMG_0071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FrUxWXO9YNU/TgaXz3coHYI/AAAAAAAABj8/ACxtag4rRuE/s400/IMG_0071.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XPgtHAjYiR8/TgaTVyAS5GI/AAAAAAAABj0/SiDkHgrkL0s/s1600/IMG_0050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XPgtHAjYiR8/TgaTVyAS5GI/AAAAAAAABj0/SiDkHgrkL0s/s400/IMG_0050.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paul, pointing a sign that reads "in this place in 1869, nothing happened"/ &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Paul&amp;nbsp;mostrando un letrero que dice "En este lugar en 1869 no pasó nada"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;We also visited Neolé, an artisan cheese factory where Kosher Oaxaca cheese was being prepared and packaged for the Jewish community in Mexico City (we got some amazing cheeses from that place). Within 30 minutes from Tequisquiapan, there are at least five cheese factories and two big vineyards, being Cavas Freixenet the largest and more know one. We did not visit Cavas Freixenet this time because a paella festival was taking place and what looked like the entire population from Mexico City were there, too long of a line-up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;También visitamos la fábrica de quesos artesanales Neolé, donde se estaba preparando y empacando queso Oaxaca Kosher para la comunidad Judía de la Ciudad de México (compramos quesos deliciosos en ese lugar).&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;En un radio de 30 minutos de Tequisquiapan, se encuentran por lo menos cinco queserías y dos viñedos importantes, siendo Cavas Freixenet el más grande y conocido. En esta ocasión no visitamos Cavas Freixenet ya que estaban celebrando un festival de la paella y lo que parecía ser la población entera del D.F. hacía colas interminables para entrar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d4LSrHqJQhk/TgaUBhftf9I/AAAAAAAABj4/KvZwQ_8Lil8/s1600/IMG_0081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d4LSrHqJQhk/TgaUBhftf9I/AAAAAAAABj4/KvZwQ_8Lil8/s400/IMG_0081.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1052219903609588434?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1052219903609588434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1052219903609588434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1052219903609588434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1052219903609588434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/06/wine-and-cheese-queso-y-vino.html' title='Wine and cheese / Queso y vino'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2SSXl_or40/TgaSO_u0TDI/AAAAAAAABjs/JrfQLkwjD5g/s72-c/IMG_0062.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5204850817566972456</id><published>2011-06-07T21:19:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T21:19:02.362-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Vizarrón, Querétaro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xk5LMzi2pRg/Te7B0ymDGPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/-66Qh9UE5f0/s1600/IMG_0102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xk5LMzi2pRg/Te7B0ymDGPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/-66Qh9UE5f0/s400/IMG_0102.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;At about one hour drive from Tequisquiapan the town of Vizzarón can be found, surrounded by hills with mines of marble. We visited this town for the second time, just to enjoy the contrasts of a humble town, where the benches at the park and the sidewalks are made with marble and the entire community lives of marble hand crafting. We wished we could transport to Canada the beautiful tables and other articles hand made out of marble, heavy, but inexpensive and wonderful. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;A cerca de una hora de Tequisquiapan, se encuentra el pueblo de Vizarrón, rodeado de colinas donde se encuentran minas de mármol. Visitamos ese pueblo por segunda ocasión solamente para disfrutar los contrastes de un pueblo humilde y sencillo, donde las bancas del parque y las banquetas de la calle están hechas de mármol y la comunidad entera vive del mármol. Quisimos poder transportar a Canadá&amp;nbsp;las hermosas mesas de mármol y otros artículos preciosos hechos a mano; pesados, pero a precios muy razonables y bellísimos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qx93bBHtuM/Te7CBPiC-OI/AAAAAAAABjU/WyR5FduiAJA/s1600/IMG_0105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qx93bBHtuM/Te7CBPiC-OI/AAAAAAAABjU/WyR5FduiAJA/s400/IMG_0105.JPG" t8="true" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Marble side walks / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Banquetas de mármol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kauk8Tfv1sY/Te7CL69bGlI/AAAAAAAABjY/zkRpkkwe7XA/s1600/IMG_0093.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kauk8Tfv1sY/Te7CL69bGlI/AAAAAAAABjY/zkRpkkwe7XA/s400/IMG_0093.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Interior of the church, everything made&amp;nbsp;out of marble&amp;nbsp;/&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Interior de la iglesia, todo de mármol&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wl9szSUn29g/Te7CeN3TRAI/AAAAAAAABjc/pyOYhnJISnw/s1600/IMG_0100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wl9szSUn29g/Te7CeN3TRAI/AAAAAAAABjc/pyOYhnJISnw/s400/IMG_0100.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;One of the many stores /&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;una de las muchas tiendas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B5ZY6_9CdWc/Te7MSzB5ldI/AAAAAAAABjg/smeGgo8igZY/s1600/IMG_0092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B5ZY6_9CdWc/Te7MSzB5ldI/AAAAAAAABjg/smeGgo8igZY/s400/IMG_0092.JPG" t8="true" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Marble bench at the park /&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt; Banca de mármol en el parque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3w4o5BXmhPc/Te7lJtnkz0I/AAAAAAAABjk/psCDHx0GHXg/s1600/IMG_0098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3w4o5BXmhPc/Te7lJtnkz0I/AAAAAAAABjk/psCDHx0GHXg/s400/IMG_0098.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;One of the marble tables that we liked / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Una de las mesas que nos gustaron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5204850817566972456?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5204850817566972456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5204850817566972456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5204850817566972456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5204850817566972456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/06/vizarron-queretaro.html' title='Vizarrón, Querétaro'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xk5LMzi2pRg/Te7B0ymDGPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/-66Qh9UE5f0/s72-c/IMG_0102.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-6964669953727219633</id><published>2011-06-05T18:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T18:08:21.569-06:00</updated><title type='text'>We are back! / ¡Ya regresamos!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--VkWfioMW6Y/TewYxpWFnrI/AAAAAAAABjM/nhjOaWOm9Js/s1600/IMG_0566.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--VkWfioMW6Y/TewYxpWFnrI/AAAAAAAABjM/nhjOaWOm9Js/s400/IMG_0566.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We just came back from our trip to Mexico. We spent two weeks with the family and had a great time, with very warm weather (+30°C) and very warm people, our people. We will post our pictures here eventually. We are grateful for a save and wonderful trip, and are now counting the days until the next time we can go back to Mexico. Thanks for your prayers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Acabamos de regresar de México. Pasamos dos semanas con la familia y la pasamos súper bien, con un clima muy cálido (+30°C) y gente muy cálida, nuestra gente. Publicaremos nuestras fotos aquí eventualmente. Damos gracias a Dios por un viaje seguro y maravilloso, y estamos ahora contando los días hasta nuestro próximo viaje a México. ¡Gracias por sus oraciones!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-6964669953727219633?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/6964669953727219633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=6964669953727219633' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6964669953727219633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6964669953727219633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-are-back-ya-regresamos.html' title='We are back! / ¡Ya regresamos!'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--VkWfioMW6Y/TewYxpWFnrI/AAAAAAAABjM/nhjOaWOm9Js/s72-c/IMG_0566.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8704767444222302065</id><published>2011-04-22T18:36:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T18:36:19.467-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Five years! / ¡Cinco Años!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HgloPvObRWc/TbICHXn2oxI/AAAAAAAABiQ/xsQ30fcwcaA/s1600/310_1045+-+cropped.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HgloPvObRWc/TbICHXn2oxI/AAAAAAAABiQ/xsQ30fcwcaA/s640/310_1045+-+cropped.JPG" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Five years ago today we joined our lives. We can hardly believe that it has been that long; we still feel like newlyweds and we have truly enjoyed our time together, we are so thankful because only God could have allowed it to happen: we were born and raised almost 4,000 km apart; we have different religions, different languages, different cultures, different professions, etc. two completely different people; however, we have a very strong and important factor that unites us: Jesus. We both are Christian and we share the same values and principles, we share our love for our God and for our parents and family, we enjoy the same activities (such as cooking and traveling, especially traveling together). We have grown through our differences and we have learnt each other's languages (well, Paul still has to learn more Spanish) and even created our own (no, it´s not Spanglish) and now we can't imagine having separate lives, we are truly a happy couple. We love each other more than we did five years ago, and we are looking forward for many more years together. Thank you, Father for these five years! Thank you, for this blessing called marriage! Thank you for uniting us and thank you for been the centre of our lives and in the middle of our marriage! Also, we are so thankful that, unlike Kate and William, we were able to kiss at the altar!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Hoy hace cinco años que juntamos nuestras vidas. Difícilmente podemos creer que ha pasado tanto tiempo; todavía nos sentimos como recién casados y hemos disfrutado mucho estos años juntos, estamos muy agradecidos porque solo Dios pudo permitirlo: nacimos y crecimos separados por más de 4,000 kilómetros, tenemos religiones diferentes, diferentes idiomas, diferentes culturas, diferentes profesiones, etc. dos personas completamente diferentes. Sin embargo, tenemos un factor muy grande e importante que nos une: Jesucristo. Los dos somos Cristianos y compartimos los mismos valores y principios, compartimos nuestro amor por Dios y por nuestros padres y nuestras familias, y los dos disfrutamos las mismas actividades (tales como cocinar y viajar, especialmente viajar juntos). Hemos crecido a través de nuestras diferencias y hemos aprendido los lenguajes uno del otro (bueno, Paul todavía tiene que aprender más Español) y aún crear nuestro propio idioma (no, no es Spanglish) y no podemos imaginar nuestras vidas separados, realmente somos una pareja feliz. Nos amamos el uno al otro más de lo que nos amábamos hace cinco años, y ansiamos muchos años más juntos. ¡Gracias Padre, por estos cinco años! ¡Gracias por esta bendición llamada matrimonio! ¡Gracias por unirnos y por ser el centro de nuestras vidas y estar en el centro de nuestro matrimonio! También estamos agradecidos de que, a diferencia de Kate y William, ¡nosotros sí nos pudimos besar en el altar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4Opk4mYp7U/TbIJWpH2fGI/AAAAAAAABiw/pj2Mqd9ihE4/s1600/309_0930.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4Opk4mYp7U/TbIJWpH2fGI/AAAAAAAABiw/pj2Mqd9ihE4/s400/309_0930.JPG" width="316" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JlS8xPppoYc/TbII4CkIO6I/AAAAAAAABis/V8MK0ytDEc8/s1600/309_0948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JlS8xPppoYc/TbII4CkIO6I/AAAAAAAABis/V8MK0ytDEc8/s400/309_0948.JPG" width="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMK-vf81RXg/TaodUQibjTI/AAAAAAAABg4/AFtRwysbE2w/s1600/311_1113.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMK-vf81RXg/TaodUQibjTI/AAAAAAAABg4/AFtRwysbE2w/s400/311_1113.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Our home church has moved, and as we enjoy our new building, we wanted to remember what the old building meant to us. Saint Michael's Catholic Church is the place where we met, the church were Catalina felt at home when she moved to Calgary without knowing anybody in town; the place where Paul used to work; the place where we met our best friends and joined our two home groups. We cherish our memories and will always remember the great times we spent there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;Nuestra iglesia se cambió de dirección, y mientras disfrutamos el nuevo edificio, también quisimos recordar lo que el anterior significa para nosotros. La iglesia Católica de San Miguel es el lugar donde nos conocimos, la iglesia donde Catalina se sintió en casa cuando se mudó a Calgary sin conocer a nadie; el lugar donde Paul trabajaba; el lugar donde conocimos a nuestros mejores amigos y nos unimos a nuestros dos grupos de oración. Atesoramos las memorias y siempre recordaremos los momentos que pasamos aquí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PY4ZDTB4jhc/Taod4C6OCXI/AAAAAAAABg8/4TW-CmQXmYA/s1600/DSCN0099.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PY4ZDTB4jhc/Taod4C6OCXI/AAAAAAAABg8/4TW-CmQXmYA/s400/DSCN0099.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Always remembered Fr. Len / &lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"&gt;Siempre recordado Padre Len&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YiVbVgDKSDk/Taod7b48eoI/AAAAAAAABhA/buIAwGsehGc/s1600/DSCN0084.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YiVbVgDKSDk/Taod7b48eoI/AAAAAAAABhA/buIAwGsehGc/s400/DSCN0084.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Easter Vigil / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Vigilia de Pascua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rOhygy2IazU/Taod_CA74XI/AAAAAAAABhE/xIoMtL9TnW8/s1600/DSCN0089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rOhygy2IazU/Taod_CA74XI/AAAAAAAABhE/xIoMtL9TnW8/s400/DSCN0089.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXwQ0chukls/TaoeDHxWJcI/AAAAAAAABhI/XwSZIwyxSnk/s1600/DSCN0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXwQ0chukls/TaoeDHxWJcI/AAAAAAAABhI/XwSZIwyxSnk/s400/DSCN0012.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Dwaine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JUIiyazZ20k/TaoeIJElzjI/AAAAAAAABhM/FeUZWOfMLO4/s1600/DSCN0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JUIiyazZ20k/TaoeIJElzjI/AAAAAAAABhM/FeUZWOfMLO4/s400/DSCN0004.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Paul, Donna &amp;amp; Fr. Len&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sz9MohL0COU/TaoeVHKfRsI/AAAAAAAABhQ/3xDoQ6CbTxU/s1600/309_0992.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sz9MohL0COU/TaoeVHKfRsI/AAAAAAAABhQ/3xDoQ6CbTxU/s400/309_0992.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Deacon Paul / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El Diácono Paul &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1_UuXeMdq38/TaoednnUlCI/AAAAAAAABhU/QbpdJAGuLc4/s1600/309_0998.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1_UuXeMdq38/TaoednnUlCI/AAAAAAAABhU/QbpdJAGuLc4/s400/309_0998.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tracie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9vIs_r3OTs/TaoifPhuMAI/AAAAAAAABhk/-sDwzZMdYHc/s1600/308_0900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9vIs_r3OTs/TaoifPhuMAI/AAAAAAAABhk/-sDwzZMdYHc/s400/308_0900.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The Life Teen Band / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;la banda de Life Teen﻿&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cz1XFfF124o/TaoiRSjzFcI/AAAAAAAABhg/RucE8Lbdvek/s1600/309_0920.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cz1XFfF124o/TaoiRSjzFcI/AAAAAAAABhg/RucE8Lbdvek/s400/309_0920.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Catalina with Papito and Mamita hiding in the basement before the wedding&lt;/span&gt; / Catalina con sus papás escondiéndose en el sótano de la iglesia antes de la boda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A2wpQeiiccY/TaoelwqkCAI/AAAAAAAABhY/0qD2kR1yFuE/s1600/310_1016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A2wpQeiiccY/TaoelwqkCAI/AAAAAAAABhY/0qD2kR1yFuE/s400/310_1016.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our wedding! / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;¡Nuestra boda!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z3OiBiedn-k/TaogvYPP8iI/AAAAAAAABhc/bYbrnfdHi3Q/s1600/October%252708+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z3OiBiedn-k/TaogvYPP8iI/AAAAAAAABhc/bYbrnfdHi3Q/s400/October%252708+016.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our Life Teen times / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nuestros tiempos de Life Teen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The last mass was very emotive, and everyone had an opportunity to bring objects from the old church to the new one. We grabbed a microphone and a microphone stand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La última misa fué muy emotiva y todos tuvimos la oportunidad de llevar objetos de la iglesia vieja a la nueva. Nosotros escogimos un micrófono y su base.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EZCssqBcXqg/TaokBSgDULI/AAAAAAAABho/gSDyke5vdJ0/s1600/IMG_8678.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EZCssqBcXqg/TaokBSgDULI/AAAAAAAABho/gSDyke5vdJ0/s400/IMG_8678.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The last mass at the old St. Mike's / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La última misa en la iglesia vieja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xs-5kAzMA2E/TaokR1qDhLI/AAAAAAAABhs/V790qhAn6J4/s1600/IMG_8682.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xs-5kAzMA2E/TaokR1qDhLI/AAAAAAAABhs/V790qhAn6J4/s400/IMG_8682.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Fr. Jerome / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;el Padre Jerome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7GPXymNT-Q/TaokXuayopI/AAAAAAAABhw/MkoqPxfYX2A/s1600/IMG_8684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7GPXymNT-Q/TaokXuayopI/AAAAAAAABhw/MkoqPxfYX2A/s400/IMG_8684.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Fr. Julian and the objects to be moved / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;el Padre Julian y los objetos a mover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2BB4sO5JI4/TaokjkzlJGI/AAAAAAAABh0/5vkW224eoEg/s1600/IMG_8689.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2BB4sO5JI4/TaokjkzlJGI/AAAAAAAABh0/5vkW224eoEg/s400/IMG_8689.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Don &amp;amp; Angela&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_6cMH4V8QPk/TaokpYqYVaI/AAAAAAAABh4/banMIwxz25c/s1600/IMG_8676.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_6cMH4V8QPk/TaokpYqYVaI/AAAAAAAABh4/banMIwxz25c/s400/IMG_8676.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A little sad / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Un poco tristes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KKT_ZfXWxKw/TaokuuXkV7I/AAAAAAAABh8/naKjkGZr8xs/s1600/IMG_8669.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KKT_ZfXWxKw/TaokuuXkV7I/AAAAAAAABh8/naKjkGZr8xs/s400/IMG_8669.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Paul, Demetrio &amp;amp; Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B329uN-Aax8/Taok4zcPngI/AAAAAAAABiA/9KJ2XC1s5hU/s1600/IMG_8670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B329uN-Aax8/Taok4zcPngI/AAAAAAAABiA/9KJ2XC1s5hU/s400/IMG_8670.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The altar / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;el altar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5929123077485946023?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5929123077485946023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5929123077485946023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5929123077485946023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5929123077485946023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/04/end-of-era-el-final-de-una-era.html' title='The end of an era... / El final de una era...'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMK-vf81RXg/TaodUQibjTI/AAAAAAAABg4/AFtRwysbE2w/s72-c/311_1113.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-3042227787115823357</id><published>2011-04-10T11:02:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T20:15:03.711-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven Curtis Chapman</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tJBCjgS83-I/TaEOPqpEzhI/AAAAAAAABgw/kjyFArDV4-8/s1600/IMG_8725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tJBCjgS83-I/TaEOPqpEzhI/AAAAAAAABgw/kjyFArDV4-8/s400/IMG_8725.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Steven Curtis Chapman is one of our favourite Christian musicians. He has recorded over 20 albums and has won five Grammy awards and over 50 Gospel Music Awards, having sold more than 10 million albums. Together with Geoff Moore he visited our City last week and gave a concert at the First Alliance Church.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Steven Curtis Chapman es uno de nuestros cantantes cristianos favoritos. Él ha grabado más de 20 discos y ha ganado cinco premios Grammy y más de 50 premios de la música cristiana, ha vendido más de 10 millones de discos. Junto con Geoff Moore él visitó nuestra ciudad la semana pasaday dió un concierto en la Iglesia de la Primera Alianza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oAsbAWLl2K4/TaENsIEbt-I/AAAAAAAABgo/tMNCaB5-Mc8/s1600/IMG_8718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oAsbAWLl2K4/TaENsIEbt-I/AAAAAAAABgo/tMNCaB5-Mc8/s400/IMG_8718.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;His band was formed by his two very talented boys, Caleb and Will, together with another young man. The evening was very emotive as he talked about the horrible incident that took place three years ago when his beautiful 4 year old girl Maria Sue died as a result of an accident at their home (she ran to the car that her brother was driving without any of them noticing). Steven described the time of darkness and pain the family went through and how our Lord is so good and continues to heal and bring them peace. He described how hard it was to sing the songs that he had written before, when everything was beautiful such as "Yours", a song that says "It's all yours God, everything is yours, you are the maker and keeper, Father and ruler of everything, it's all yours" as well as "Cinderella" a beautiful song he wrote to his two little girls, one of them gone with Jesus now. He is able now to sing all of his songs and repeat that it all belongs to the Lord (he added a new verse to the song) and sang it during the concert as well as Cinderella and many other of our favourite songs. Very emotive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Su banda estuvo formada por sus dos hijos muy talentosos, Caleb y Will, junto con otro jovencito. La tarde estuvo emotiva ya que él habló del horrible incidente que pasó hace tres años cuando su hermosa hija de 4 años, Maria Sue murió como resultado de un accidente en su casa (ella corrió hacia el coche que su hermano estaba manejando sin que ninguno de los dos se diera cuenta). Steven describió la obscuridad y dolor que la familia atravesó y cómo el Señor es tan bueno y continúa sanando las heridas y dándoles paz. También describió lo difícil que fue cantar las canciones que escribió antes, cuando todo era perfecto, tales como "Tuyo", una canción que dice "Todo es tuyo Dios, todo es tuyo, tú eres el creador y el cuidador, Padre y regidor de todo, todo es tuyo" así como "Cenicienta", una hermosa canción que él escribió a sus dos hijas, una de ellas ahora se encuentra con Jesús. Ahora él ya puede cantar todas esas canciones y repetir que todo pertenece al Señor (añadió un verso a la canción "Tuyo") y durante el concierto la cantó junto con "Cenicienta" y otras de nuestras canciones favoritas. Muy emotivo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5pQdNas1-Vc/TaEOKS6_MlI/AAAAAAAABgs/2mUt22AU8y0/s1600/IMG_8723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5pQdNas1-Vc/TaEOKS6_MlI/AAAAAAAABgs/2mUt22AU8y0/s400/IMG_8723.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Steven and Geoff also talked about their adoption journey, as they have adopted three children from China each. They are very passionate about caring for orphan and poor children. Very inspiring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Steven y Geoff también hablaron de sus experiencias con la adopción de niños huérfanos, ya que cada uno de ellos ha adoptado tres niños de China. son muy apasionados acerca de la adopción y ayuda a los niños huérfanos, muy inspirador.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVEe__NLShg/TaEOUGlYSiI/AAAAAAAABg0/aXTWzLNgChY/s1600/IMG_8730.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVEe__NLShg/TaEOUGlYSiI/AAAAAAAABg0/aXTWzLNgChY/s400/IMG_8730.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/nrWMBC6yoME/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nrWMBC6yoME&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nrWMBC6yoME&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxPDfzCXWBg/TaEJTp6vPfI/AAAAAAAABgc/qcYlV0YoTus/s1600/IMG_8556.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxPDfzCXWBg/TaEJTp6vPfI/AAAAAAAABgc/qcYlV0YoTus/s400/IMG_8556.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Las Vegas is an interesting place to visit. When we told people that we were going, we got many responses, some positive, some very negative, and some curious. One thing that was common among everyone who knew our vacation plans, was the number of stories and suggestions. We took them all and then jumped on a plane. Our first experience of Vegas was the airport and we were amazed to see the slot machines in the terminal. And then... everywhere, even at the supermarket!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Las Vegas es un lugar interesante. Cuando contamos nuestros planes de visitar la ciudad, recibimos muchos comentarios, algunos positivos, algunos muy negativos y otros curiosos. El común denominador fue el número de historias y sugerencias. Las tomamos todas y nos subimos al avión. Nuestra primera experiencia en Las Vegas fué el aeropuerto, y nos sorprendió ver las maquinitas de apuestas en la terminal. Y después ... en todos lados. ¡Hasta en el súper!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CGF1mtXPNJQ/TaEJaJdnuiI/AAAAAAAABgg/aK-fy0-wUr8/s1600/IMG_8636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CGF1mtXPNJQ/TaEJaJdnuiI/AAAAAAAABgg/aK-fy0-wUr8/s400/IMG_8636.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0IhLXeWkPIs/TaEJgc7jeqI/AAAAAAAABgk/fHAAFOlYhMs/s1600/IMG_8623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0IhLXeWkPIs/TaEJgc7jeqI/AAAAAAAABgk/fHAAFOlYhMs/s400/IMG_8623.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Our overall impression of Vegas is it's glamour and excess. We found they either want your money or your soul. Everything is expensive and even wasteful, people pretending to be friendly and then trying to sell you something and then everything is about gambling, drinking, and sex. Nudity even at the Cirque du Soleil shows! We were unable to get tickets to the only show we wanted to see (Love, with music from The Beatles) and everything else had nudity. Smoking and drinking is allowed everywhere, so the hotels were beautiful and glamorous but stinky. Then, on every corner at all hours of the day people handing cards with naked woman and phone numbers. Many of those cards are also on the floor, so Paul couldn't look down because there would be tons of pictures of naked women, plus all the ads and vehicles with ads driving around with sexually suggestive pictures. Definitively sin City, dark and fake. However, it was a good experience because we were able to see the good and the bad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nuestra impresión de Las Vegas es glamur y exceso. Descubrimos que la gente quiere o tu dinero o tu alma. Todo es muy caro y hay mucho desperdicio, gente fingiendo ser amigables para venderte algo y además todo gira alrededor de las apuestas, el alcohol y el sexo. Nudismo ¡hasta en los shows de Cirque du Soleil! No pudimos conseguir boletos para el único espectáculo que nos interesaba (Love, con música de Los Beatles) y todos los otros shows tenían nudismo. Fumar y beber está permitido en todos lados, así que los hoteles muy bonitos y glamorosos pero apestosos. Además en cada esquina a toda hora del día había gente volanteando tarjetas con mujeres desnudas y números de teléfono. Muchas de esas tarjetas terminan en el piso así que Paul no podía ver para abajo para evitar ver a todas esas mujeres desnudas, además muchos anuncios y coches con anuncios con fotografías sexualmente sugerentes. Definitivamente la ciudad del pecado, obscura y artificial. Sin embargo fue una buena experiencia pues pudimos ver lo bueno y lo malo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1894648483336238570?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1894648483336238570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1894648483336238570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1894648483336238570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1894648483336238570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/04/other-side-to-vegas-el-otro-aspecto-de.html' title='The other side to Vegas / El otro aspecto de Las Vegas'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxPDfzCXWBg/TaEJTp6vPfI/AAAAAAAABgc/qcYlV0YoTus/s72-c/IMG_8556.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5934843101812745093</id><published>2011-03-20T16:01:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T16:01:13.793-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What happens in Vegas ... / Lo que pasa en Las Vegas ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eK9yy8CCBBY/TYVlPk9HysI/AAAAAAAABdo/p9P8LlJYJQo/s1600/IMG_8603.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eK9yy8CCBBY/TYVlPk9HysI/AAAAAAAABdo/p9P8LlJYJQo/s400/IMG_8603.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This year we decided celebrating Catalina's birthday in Las Vegas. We spent few days there and came back two weeks ago. Obviously, the weather was much better than the weather in Calgary, and we came back very tired but the experience was good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We stayed at The Paris, a French-themed hotel located on the middle of Las Vegas Strip, that includes a half-scale, over 160 m tall replica of the Eiffel Tower, a big sign in the shape of the Montgolfier balloon, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe and several other French replicas. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Este año decidimos celebrar el cumpleaños de Catalina en Las Vegas. Pasamos varios días ahí y regresamos hace dos semanas. Obviamente, el clima estuvo mucho mejor que el clima en Calgary y regresamos muy cansados, pero la experiencia fué buena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nos hospedamos en el París, un hotel con tema Francés ubicado en el centro de la calle principal, que incluye una réplica de la Torre Eiffel a la mitad de la escala de la verdadera torre, con 160 m de altura, un enorme letrero con forma de globo aerostático Montgolfier y un Arco del Triunfo de 2/3 del tamaño del arco en París, entre otras réplicas Francesas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--aTlNJK8_1E/TYVlf21IBII/AAAAAAAABds/R7nGONiVatQ/s1600/IMG_8484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--aTlNJK8_1E/TYVlf21IBII/AAAAAAAABds/R7nGONiVatQ/s400/IMG_8484.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uQ_WEK55rY4/TYVrmvhP3JI/AAAAAAAABdw/ViKSrrR5B7o/s1600/IMG_8510.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uQ_WEK55rY4/TYVrmvhP3JI/AAAAAAAABdw/ViKSrrR5B7o/s400/IMG_8510.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We enjoyed dinner at several of the restaurants at The Paris; such as Mon Amie Gaby, where we had a romantic birthday dinner while we enjoyed the show at The Bellagio. We also ate delicious crepes at La Crêperie and other French meals at Le Provencal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Disfrutamos cenando en varios de los restaurantes en el hotel París; Mon amie Gaby, donde tuvimos una cena romántica de cumpleaños para Catalina mientras disfrutamos el show de las fuentes bailarinas en el Bellagio. También comimos unas crepas deliciosas en La Crêperie y otras comidas francesas en Le Provencal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UVn3FeuuWs0/TYVtMAV6IcI/AAAAAAAABd4/j3sdpxWPwWE/s1600/IMG_8520.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UVn3FeuuWs0/TYVtMAV6IcI/AAAAAAAABd4/j3sdpxWPwWE/s400/IMG_8520.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fZyDs1xkrrw/TYVtUV_JgmI/AAAAAAAABd8/gzb-DtmDtwM/s1600/IMG_8521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fZyDs1xkrrw/TYVtUV_JgmI/AAAAAAAABd8/gzb-DtmDtwM/s400/IMG_8521.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xSMEq1E9Kyg/TYVwFy8PL6I/AAAAAAAABeA/HOcU3JTtwfU/s1600/IMG_8608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xSMEq1E9Kyg/TYVwFy8PL6I/AAAAAAAABeA/HOcU3JTtwfU/s400/IMG_8608.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aCPyqXdjcOY/TYVwTPhCVUI/AAAAAAAABeE/DjWmxFPBJe0/s1600/IMG_8479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aCPyqXdjcOY/TYVwTPhCVUI/AAAAAAAABeE/DjWmxFPBJe0/s400/IMG_8479.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We also took the elevator to the top of the "Eiffel Tower" to the observation deck and got a very nice view of the Strip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;También tomamos el elevador a la punta de la "Torre Eiffel" para ir al mirador y aprovechar la hermosa vista de la Calle principal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G2xoluGtTZU/TYY66tgJvUI/AAAAAAAABeI/u_2hwKz4o74/s1600/IMG_8431.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G2xoluGtTZU/TYY66tgJvUI/AAAAAAAABeI/u_2hwKz4o74/s400/IMG_8431.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hARsWbrChtc/TYY7OqSWc9I/AAAAAAAABeM/vd3YLh7PlOY/s1600/IMG_8582.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hARsWbrChtc/TYY7OqSWc9I/AAAAAAAABeM/vd3YLh7PlOY/s400/IMG_8582.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f9HF_DjS3k4/TYY7ZAien7I/AAAAAAAABeQ/_majAkyLsfU/s1600/IMG_8595.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f9HF_DjS3k4/TYY7ZAien7I/AAAAAAAABeQ/_majAkyLsfU/s400/IMG_8595.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZvGXVnWqYUU/TYY7hnDLL_I/AAAAAAAABeU/LkM84_Q0Kqs/s1600/IMG_8602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZvGXVnWqYUU/TYY7hnDLL_I/AAAAAAAABeU/LkM84_Q0Kqs/s400/IMG_8602.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p0aDTwLXQ1A/TYY7t14CSCI/AAAAAAAABeY/GNt6t7rYYak/s1600/IMG_8604.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p0aDTwLXQ1A/TYY7t14CSCI/AAAAAAAABeY/GNt6t7rYYak/s400/IMG_8604.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Across the street from Paris is the Hotel Bellagio with its large dancing water fountains. These fountains are a choreographed water feature with light and music. The show takes place every 30 or 15 minutes and includes several music genres. The fountains were installed in an almost 4 Ha artificial lake and are formed by several metres of pipes and over 1,200 nozzles, coordinated with more than 4,500 lights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Enfrente del París está el Hotel Bellagio con sus enormes fuentes bailarinas. Estas fuentes están coreografiadas con luz y sonido. El espectáculo ocurre cada 30 o cada 15 minutos (dependiendo de la hora de la tarde o noche) e incluye varios géneros musicales. Las fuentes están en un lago artificial de casi 4 hectáreas de superficie y están formadas por varios metros de tuberías y más de 1,200 boquillas, coordinados con más de 4,500 luces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eMzdCw7z6IU/TYY-RiN-ZeI/AAAAAAAABec/cKCGauFxcU4/s1600/IMG_8500.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eMzdCw7z6IU/TYY-RiN-ZeI/AAAAAAAABec/cKCGauFxcU4/s400/IMG_8500.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M2rmbbKk97Y/TYY-ui9t6wI/AAAAAAAABeg/rQwh8ch3284/s1600/IMG_8518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M2rmbbKk97Y/TYY-ui9t6wI/AAAAAAAABeg/rQwh8ch3284/s400/IMG_8518.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N97UhVkpFOY/TYY_CoM4k7I/AAAAAAAABek/j2afkaGrfzE/s1600/IMG_8590.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N97UhVkpFOY/TYY_CoM4k7I/AAAAAAAABek/j2afkaGrfzE/s400/IMG_8590.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We visited almost all the hotels in the Strip, as each one is unique and has a different theme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;También recorrimos casi todos los hoteles en la calle principal, ya que cada uno es único y tiene un tema diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-I0oILLWq1yE/TYZOpyWUwrI/AAAAAAAABfY/epsUAnKYvm4/s1600/IMG_8435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f6KW5XBwcZI/TYZSbsdNnsI/AAAAAAAABfw/e4yZE95tnYU/s400/IMG_8548.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;A brand new store we enjoyed was The Sugar Factory, a candy store with amazing treats in the menu; a chocolate bar where you can enjoy chocolate fondue with anything you can imagine, including gold, yes, an expensive item. They also have a restaurant and a candy section with all sorts of candy and ice cream. The "hot" item was the "Couture pops", a $25 lollipop whose feature is the bling lollipop stick that you can reuse and also the plastic cover that allows you to keep your lollipop for later. No, we didn't buy any, the price is ridiculous for a lollipop, even if they are endorsed by many celebrities!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Una tienda nueva que disfrutamos fue The Sugar Factory, una tienda de dulces con postres increíbles en el menú; un bar de chocolate donde puedes disfrutar fondues de chocolate con todo lo que se te ocurra, incluyendo laminitas de oro, sí, un artículo caro. También tienen un restaurante y una sección de dulces con todos los que te puedas imaginar y helados. El artículo de moda que identifica a esta tienda es la paleta de alta costura, "Couture pop", una paleta de caramelo de $25 dólares (unos $300 pesos) cuya característica es el palito reusable que consiste en un cilindro metálico con brillitos y una cubierta de plástico que te permite guardar la paleta chupada para después. No, nosotros no compramos ninguna de esas paletas, ¡El precio es ridículo para una paleta, aunque las recomienden muchas celebridades del espectáculo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cnJMVMC6YJY/TYZXTfrVZ5I/AAAAAAAABf0/mYwrambOmBg/s1600/IMG_8429.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cnJMVMC6YJY/TYZXTfrVZ5I/AAAAAAAABf0/mYwrambOmBg/s400/IMG_8429.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H0SzcULmIaA/TYZXctMjHsI/AAAAAAAABf4/V1ep4L-AdQ8/s1600/IMG_8428.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H0SzcULmIaA/TYZXctMjHsI/AAAAAAAABf4/V1ep4L-AdQ8/s400/IMG_8428.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7PuSDkImCS8/TYZXni8htuI/AAAAAAAABf8/Yqqyrgei0UI/s1600/IMG_8632.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7PuSDkImCS8/TYZXni8htuI/AAAAAAAABf8/Yqqyrgei0UI/s400/IMG_8632.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M8fV32q7_zw/TYZYWAfsSqI/AAAAAAAABgI/fglbbTtXzQ8/s1600/IMG_8631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M8fV32q7_zw/TYZYWAfsSqI/AAAAAAAABgI/fglbbTtXzQ8/s400/IMG_8631.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s057D-1UmoM/TYZuofusg0I/AAAAAAAABgU/A-EoMzWpXH4/s1600/kim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="163" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s057D-1UmoM/TYZuofusg0I/AAAAAAAABgU/A-EoMzWpXH4/s400/kim.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wsah2n-2LOc/TYZv5NuAsfI/AAAAAAAABgY/rRR8xjmXncc/s1600/brit_long.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wsah2n-2LOc/TYZv5NuAsfI/AAAAAAAABgY/rRR8xjmXncc/s400/brit_long.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hG1QnwZNhm4/TYZX-F3BtAI/AAAAAAAABgE/ZaR7lt28PXk/s1600/IMG_8634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hG1QnwZNhm4/TYZX-F3BtAI/AAAAAAAABgE/ZaR7lt28PXk/s400/IMG_8634.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The chocolate bar / El bar de chocolate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;What we did buy (twice, as we kept going back to that store) was ice cream and candies. We got the funnel-like tube that everybody uses in Vegas to drink beer and normally people fill it with candy and once the candy is gone they use it for beer (at a lower price), nobody could believe we wanted to refill it with candy rather than beer, and we got tons of jelly-bellies, chocolates and other candy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Lo que sí compramos (dos veces, ya que visitamos la tienda varias veces) fué helado y dulces. Compramos el tubo que todo mundo usa en Las Vegas para tomar cerveza en las calles y normalmente la gente lo llena de dulces y una vez que se terminan los dulces lo usan para cerveza (que se vende más barata en esos tubos), nadie podía creer que nosotros queríamos rellenarlo de dulces en lugar de cerveza, y nos tocaron muchísimos jelly-bellies, chocolates y otros dulces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aJ5Nv6tSEu4/TYZaltzrLII/AAAAAAAABgM/RnEdraC5RCo/s1600/IMG_8430.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aJ5Nv6tSEu4/TYZaltzrLII/AAAAAAAABgM/RnEdraC5RCo/s400/IMG_8430.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uQtkct006vU/TYZar7BRHkI/AAAAAAAABgQ/dcDAM1UdIBk/s1600/IMG_8630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uQtkct006vU/TYZar7BRHkI/AAAAAAAABgQ/dcDAM1UdIBk/s400/IMG_8630.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5934843101812745093?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5934843101812745093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5934843101812745093' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5934843101812745093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5934843101812745093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-happens-in-vegas-lo-que-pasa-en.html' title='What happens in Vegas ... / Lo que pasa en Las Vegas ...'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eK9yy8CCBBY/TYVlPk9HysI/AAAAAAAABdo/p9P8LlJYJQo/s72-c/IMG_8603.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-3591963848990536957</id><published>2011-03-19T20:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T20:13:42.958-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Shack and William Paul Young / La Cabaña y William Paul Young</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qqokatB3-Nk/TXvsM8hLZtI/AAAAAAAABdg/p674D-O6c5k/s1600/386px-Shackover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" q6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qqokatB3-Nk/TXvsM8hLZtI/AAAAAAAABdg/p674D-O6c5k/s400/386px-Shackover.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Last&amp;nbsp;week we attended&amp;nbsp;an event at the First Alliance Church: W. Paul Young, the author of The Shack gave an amazing talk. The Shack, a novel originally written for his six children and loved by friends, was originally rejected by Christian publishers because it was to "edgy" and by non Christian publishers because it was too "Jesus-y". Two of his friends created a Publisher company, with only two hundred dollars and started with 11,000 copies (stored in their garages) and within months, sold hundreds of thousands. #1 New York Times bestseller for months and with over 13 million copies sold, the book has been translated to several languages and keeps moving around the globe. Catalina read it and loved it, and Paul is in process of "reading" it (he listens to audio books as he spends so much time in the car). It is one of those books that you either love or hate, but in order to hate it you have to read it first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The talk was thought provoking, for both Christians, and non Christians as Paul Young has a very particular view of God, having been raised with missionary parents and being abused as a child by members of the church, he does not agree with legalism and religion. He raised important issues and presented a honest view of the church, he even said "If being Christian means hating homosexuals, I'm not a Christian", which tells a lot about how the Church is viewed by non-church goers (we are Christian and we don't hate homosexuals). We found William Paul Young a very interesting person, with a great sense of &lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"&gt;humour&lt;/span&gt; and very knowledgeable of the Bible, Christianity and other religions; a very special and happy human being that has discovered God and God's great love for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xlx72zcF0xk/TXvsh71xY0I/AAAAAAAABdk/C4uTvriluuE/s1600/Caty_and_Paul_Young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" q6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xlx72zcF0xk/TXvsh71xY0I/AAAAAAAABdk/C4uTvriluuE/s400/Caty_and_Paul_Young.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La semana pasada fuimos a un evento en la Iglesia de la Primera Alianza: W. Paul Young, el autor de La Cabaña dió una plática increíble. La Cabaña es una novela originalmente escrita para sus seis hijos pero muy aclamada por sus amigos fue inicialmente rechazada por editoriales cristianas por ser muy "extrema" y por editoriales no cristianas por tener mucho sobre Jesús. Dos de sus amigos crearon una empresa editorial con solo 200 dólares y comenzaron con 10,000 copias inicialmente almacenadas en el garage. En pocos meses vendieron cientos de miles de copias. Este libro ha sido el mejor vendido según el New York times durante meses y ha vendido más de 13 millones de copias. Ha sido traducido a varios idiomas y sigue vendiéndose como pan caliente alrededor del mundo. &lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Catalina lo leyó y le encantó, Paul está en proceso de "leerlo" (Paul escucha audio libros ya que pasa mucho tiempo en el coche). Es uno de esos libros que o amas o odias, pero ¡Para odiarlo tienes que leerlo primero!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La plática estuvo muy interesante y provocativa para ambos, Cristianos y no Cristianos ya que Paul Young tiene una visión de Dios muy particular, habiendo crecido con padres misioneros y habiendo sido abusado de niño por miembros de la iglesia, él no está de acuerdo con legalismos y con religiones. Él tocó asuntos importantes y presentó una visión honesta de la iglesia, hasta dijo "si ser Cristiano significa odiar a los homosexuales, entonces no soy Cristiano", lo que dice mucho acerca de cómo la iglesia es vista por gente que no va a la iglesia (nosotros&amp;nbsp;somos Cristianos y no odiamos homosexuales). Paul Young se nos hizo una persona muy interesante, con un gran sentido del humor, muy buen conocedor de la biblia, el Cristianismo y otras religiones, un ser humano muy felíz y muy especial, que ha descubierto a Dios y al gran amor de Dios hacia nosotros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-3591963848990536957?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/3591963848990536957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=3591963848990536957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3591963848990536957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3591963848990536957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/03/shack-and-william-paul-young-la-cabana.html' title='The Shack and William Paul Young / La Cabaña y William Paul Young'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qqokatB3-Nk/TXvsM8hLZtI/AAAAAAAABdg/p674D-O6c5k/s72-c/386px-Shackover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7865884532359023866</id><published>2011-02-06T12:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T13:11:18.605-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday, Papito / Felíz cumpleaños, Papito</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7cWjoM04I/AAAAAAAABcU/93X9NMN8qY4/s1600/158.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7cWjoM04I/AAAAAAAABcU/93X9NMN8qY4/s400/158.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week it was papito's birthday. We were not able to celebrate it with him and the rest of our family in Mexico, but we called and talked with him. Two years ago we organized a surprise party for him in Tequis and today we are finally posting some of the pictures of that beautiful day two years ago when family traveled from all over North America to celebrate his 70th birthday. Happy birthday, Papito! We love you tons!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La semana pasada fué el cumpleaños de papito. No pudimos celebrarlo con él y con el resto de nuestra familia en México, pero llamamos para felicitarlo y platicamos con él. Hace dos años organizamos una fiesta sorpresa para él en Tequis y hoy por fin pudimos poner aquí algunas de las fotos de ese día tan hermoso hace dos años cuando miembros de la familia viajaron desde diferentes puntos en Norteamérica para celebrar el cumple 70 de papito. ¡Felíz Cumpleaños, papito! ¡Te amamos muchísimo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7e4qXXosI/AAAAAAAABcY/opcQ6-8kOko/s1600/DSC09031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7e4qXXosI/AAAAAAAABcY/opcQ6-8kOko/s400/DSC09031.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dea, papito &amp;amp; Catalina&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7goySe8pI/AAAAAAAABcc/9W9MkgufKmg/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7goySe8pI/AAAAAAAABcc/9W9MkgufKmg/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+037.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Aunt Martha &amp;amp; papito&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7g06PiUuI/AAAAAAAABcg/Msh72bkw-aM/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7g06PiUuI/AAAAAAAABcg/Msh72bkw-aM/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+049.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Aunt Lupita, uncle Carlos &amp;amp; papito&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7_Zd9bH4I/AAAAAAAABdc/Up0dv0Bx-xk/s1600/050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7_Zd9bH4I/AAAAAAAABdc/Up0dv0Bx-xk/s400/050.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All papitos's siblings&amp;nbsp;were there&amp;nbsp;(except for uncle Polo, whose son Luis Alberto came in his place) / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Todos los hermanos de papito&amp;nbsp;estuvieron ahí&amp;nbsp;(excepto tío Polo cuyo hijo Luis Alberto vino en su lugar) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7hB53UtUI/AAAAAAAABck/h3yQ7UVWYDc/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7hB53UtUI/AAAAAAAABck/h3yQ7UVWYDc/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+058.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mamita&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; Paul&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7hif5-AsI/AAAAAAAABco/n0ctalb9r_s/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7hif5-AsI/AAAAAAAABco/n0ctalb9r_s/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+108.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The two sisters / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Las dos hermanas&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7l86a9DXI/AAAAAAAABcw/OfQmwx9J1JM/s1600/070.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7l86a9DXI/AAAAAAAABcw/OfQmwx9J1JM/s400/070.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The entire group / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Todo el grupo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7mfabKaBI/AAAAAAAABc0/PHfDQPjXqBs/s1600/149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7mfabKaBI/AAAAAAAABc0/PHfDQPjXqBs/s400/149.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7m5YW1DuI/AAAAAAAABc4/Qww0oBHTG0Y/s1600/206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7m5YW1DuI/AAAAAAAABc4/Qww0oBHTG0Y/s400/206.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;One of the two delicious cakes that&amp;nbsp;came all the way from Leon / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Uno de los dos deliciosos&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;pasteles que viajaron desde León&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7nnpCN4nI/AAAAAAAABc8/zTsgaK2sojo/s1600/210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7nnpCN4nI/AAAAAAAABc8/zTsgaK2sojo/s400/210.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Papito, aunt Lupita and uncles Luis and Jesus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7n11EsRXI/AAAAAAAABdA/2X69b_CmHsQ/s1600/231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7n11EsRXI/AAAAAAAABdA/2X69b_CmHsQ/s400/231.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Naye &amp;amp; Doug&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7oTrSXqDI/AAAAAAAABdE/0VL9jVJPdRo/s1600/244.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7oTrSXqDI/AAAAAAAABdE/0VL9jVJPdRo/s400/244.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ceci, Carlos, Percy, aunt Lupita, Douglas &amp;amp; Naye&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7tXx_sVwI/AAAAAAAABdQ/roRpK_7Go7o/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7tXx_sVwI/AAAAAAAABdQ/roRpK_7Go7o/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+206.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The celebration continued the next day with tamales for breakfast... / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La celebración continuó el siguiente día con tamales para desayunar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7u7N6L1KI/AAAAAAAABdY/43wW7dpeMuA/s1600/Mexico+Feb+2009+117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7u7N6L1KI/AAAAAAAABdY/43wW7dpeMuA/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+117.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;...and gorditas for lunch in Bernal / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;...y gorditas en la comida en Bernal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7tpsbxDxI/AAAAAAAABdU/1FEufZyOL4Q/s1600/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7tpsbxDxI/AAAAAAAABdU/1FEufZyOL4Q/s400/Papito%2527s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+221.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The siblings saying good bye&lt;/span&gt; / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Los hermanos despidiéndose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7865884532359023866?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7865884532359023866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7865884532359023866' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7865884532359023866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7865884532359023866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-birthday-papito-feliz-cumpleanos.html' title='Happy Birthday, Papito / Felíz cumpleaños, Papito'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TU7cWjoM04I/AAAAAAAABcU/93X9NMN8qY4/s72-c/158.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-6666684331917402084</id><published>2011-01-08T18:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T18:40:47.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kings Ring / Rosca de Reyes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkOYa5ANrI/AAAAAAAABcI/eEOlKjtQCPI/s1600/IMG_8210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkOYa5ANrI/AAAAAAAABcI/eEOlKjtQCPI/s400/IMG_8210.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Epiphany (which means realization or revelation) is a term used in Christianity to refer to the realization that Christ is the son of God. The churches celebrate January 6th as the day the Magi came from the east looking for the king of the Jews to do him homage. Matthew 2:1-18 tells us that when King Herod heard this he was "troubled" and investigated where the Messiah was to be born. The priests told him that in Bethlehem of Judea, so he called the magi and sent them to Bethlehem and asked them to let him know once they have found the baby, to go himself and do him homage. The magi found Jesus with the help of the star that guided them and stopped over the place where the child was. The magi prostrated themselves and did him homage, opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh. They were warned in a dream not to return to Herod and departed to their country by another way. When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the magi, he was furious and gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, but Jesus, Mary and Joseph had escaped to Egypt, warned by an angel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mexican food is often linked to religious symbols and traditions. This whole story is represented in the Kings Ring that Mexicans eat each year during Epiphany. The night of January 5th, the Three Kings visit the homes of Mexican children and bring toys and gifts (the original Mexican tradition has no Santa, so children get their toys from the Three Kings on that night). On January 6th everybody enjoys the Kings Ring, a circular cake that symbolizes the eternal love of God, with a plastic baby hidden inside, representing baby Jesus hidden from Herod. The cake has dried fruit on the top, to look like a crown from the Three Kings. The cake is eaten everywhere, at schools, offices, homes, everywhere you go, people gather to share the cake and whoever cuts the piece with the plastic baby becomes the "God father" or "God mother" of baby Jesus and will host a party with tamales on February 2nd (yes, the party never ends), when Candlemas day is celebrated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We love the cake, it is really good, like all sweet Mexican bread. Since we can't find it anywhere in Calgary, this year we decided making our own. We found a recipe on Catalina's favourite Mexican electronic newspaper, El Universal and made two delicious cakes (without the plastic baby, we didn't have any). It took us a long time because the dough has to rise several times, but it was worth it. You even can find a video demonstration of how to make the cake in the &lt;a href="http://www.eluniversaltv.com.mx/detalle.php?d=21441"&gt;newspaper's site (in Spanish).&lt;/a&gt; Here is the recipe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kings Ring (this recipe is for 2 medium Rings)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 cup of butter&lt;br /&gt;2 1/2 teaspoons of dry yeast&lt;br /&gt;2 tablespoons of orange blossom tea (can use jasmin tea), prepared with two bags of tea in 3/4 cup water.&lt;br /&gt;2/3 cup milk&lt;br /&gt;4 cups flour&lt;br /&gt;½ cup sugar&lt;br /&gt;1 teaspoon salt&lt;br /&gt;1 to 2 teaspoons of orange peel&lt;br /&gt;4 eggs&lt;br /&gt;Plastic baby or babies (about an inch size)&lt;br /&gt;olive oil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the top:&lt;br /&gt;8 spoons of soft butter&lt;br /&gt;1/3 cup sugar&lt;br /&gt;1/3 cup flour&lt;br /&gt;Dried fruits (we used glacé cake mix from Safeway, which has orange peel, pineapple, cherries, lemon peel, and citron peel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PREPARATION TIME 300 MINUTES &lt;br /&gt;Take the butter out of the fridge so that it is soft before starting the process. Don't melt it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the two spoons of tea. Add 1/3 cup of the milk and 1/2 cup of the flour. Mix well, the mixture should be sticky and homogeneous. Cover with a damp cloth and place it at a warm place (we put it in front of the fire place) for 30 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mixer bowl, add the 3 1/2 cups of flour left and mix at a low speed with the sugar, salt and orange peel using the hook for 30 seconds to a minute. Add the eggs one by one, the 1/3 cup of milk left and the yeast/milk/flour mixture. Continue mixing until the dough is homogeneous. Increase the speed to medium and add the butter in small pieces, one by one without stopping the mixer. The dough will be sticky but don't add more flour. Mix for 15 to 20 minutes until the dough is soft and doesn't stick to the bowl any more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cover the surface of a large bowl with oil and place the dough inside. Cover with a damp cloth and leave it rise at a warm place for 90 minutes (1.5 hours).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the dough has risen, punch it to remove the gas that formed and turn it around so that the part that was in the bottom is now on the top. Cover again and leave to rise another 30 minutes. (This dough can be now refrigerated for a day and then take it out of the fridge for about an hour and continue the process or can continue without refrigerating).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the 30 minutes, cut the dough in half with a knife (don't stretch it). Form a ball with each half and place it on the table. Poke a hole in the middle and stretch it to obtain a donut shape. Insert the plastic babies from the bottom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Place each&amp;nbsp;ring on parchment paper on a baking pan. Cover and let it rise in a warm place for 60 minutes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, prepare the paste for the top by mixing the 8 spoons of soft butter until it rises, add the 1/3 cup of sugar (slowly) and the 1/3 cup of flour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decorate the Ring by placing sections of dried fruit alternated with sections with the butter mix placed as small rectangles. Burnish with a mixed egg (or the egg whites only) using a brush so that the fruit will not fall and also to give a nice shining look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preheat the oven at 350°F and bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the Rings are golden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut and serve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkOcKTockI/AAAAAAAABcM/0RW3xiBsDZI/s1600/IMG_8209.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="322" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkOcKTockI/AAAAAAAABcM/0RW3xiBsDZI/s400/IMG_8209.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Epifanía (que significa revelación) es un término usado en el Cristianismo para referirse a la revelación de que Cristo es el Hijo de Dios. Las iglesias celebran el 6 de enero como el día en el que los Reyes Magos vinieron del oriente buscando al rey de los judíos para adorarle. El evangelio de Mateo, capítulo 2 nos dice que cuando el rey Herodes escuchó esto, se turbó e investigó dónde iba a nacer el Mesías. Los sacerdotes le dijeron que en Belén de Judea, así que llamó a los Reyes Magos y los envió a Belén, pidiéndoles que le avisaran para que él también fuera a adorarlo. Los Reyes Magos encontraron a Jesús con la ayuda de una estrella que los guió y se detuvo sobre donde estaba el niño. Los Reyes Magos se postraron a adorarle, abrieron sus tesoros le ofrecieron presentes: oro incienso y mirra. En un sueño los Reyes Magos fueron advertidos que no volviesen a Herodes y regresaron a su tierra por otro camino. Cuando Herodes se vió burlado por los magos se enojó mucho y mandó matar a todos los niños menores de dos años que había en Belén y en todos sus alrededores, pero Jesús, María y José ya habían escapado a Egipto, avisados por un ángel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;La comida mexicana está frecuentemente relacionada con símbolos y tradiciones religiosas. Esta historia está representada en la Rosca de Reyes que los mexicanos comen durante la Epifanía. La noche del 5 de enero los tres Reyes visitan las casas de los niños mexicanos y traen regalos y juguetes (la tradición original mexicana no incluye a Santa Claus, así que los niños reciben juguetes de los Reyes esa noche). El 6 de enero todo mundo disfruta la Rosca de Reyes, un pan circular que simboliza el amor eterno de Dios, con un bebé de plástico escondido dentro, representando al niño Jesús escondido de Herodes. La rosca tiene fruta cristalizada encima, para verse como una corona de los Reyes Magos. Esta rosca se come en todos lados, en las escuelas, oficinas, hogares, a donde vayas, la gente se reúne a partir la rosca y quien corte el pedazo con el muñeco de plástico se convierte en el Padrino o Madrina del niño Jesús, y ofrecerá una fiesta con tamales el 2 de Febrero, día de la Candelaria (la fiesta nunca termina).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;A nosotros nos gusta mucho la rosca, es muy rica, como el pan dulce mexicano. Ya que en ningún lugar de Calgary se consigue la rosca de Reyes, este año decidimos prepararla nosotros. encontramos una receta en la versión electrónica del periódico que Catalina siempre lee, el Universal, y preparamos dos roscas deliciosas (sin el muñequito porque no teníamos). Nos tomó mucho tiempo ya que la masa debe aumentar varias veces (con la levadura), pero valió la pena. Puedes encontrar un video demostrando el procedimiento &lt;a href="http://www.eluniversaltv.com.mx/detalle.php?d=21441"&gt;en el sitio del Universal&lt;/a&gt;. Aquí está la receta:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Rosca de Reyes (esta receta es para dos roscas medianas)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;1 taza de mantequilla &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;2 ½ cucharaditas de levadura seca &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;2 cucharadas de té de azahar (o de jazmín) preparado con dos bolsitas de té en 3/4 taza de agua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;2/3 taza de leche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;4 tazas de harina de trigo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;½ taza de azúcar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;1 cucharita de sal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;1 a 2 cucharaditas de ralladura de naranja o mandarina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;4 huevos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Aceite de oliva &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Para la decoración: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;8 cucharadas de mantequilla &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;1/3 taza de azúcar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;1/3 taza de harina &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Fruta cristalizada (higos, naranjas, piña, etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;TIEMPO DE PREPARACIÓN 300 MINUTOS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Sacar la mantequilla del refrigerador para que esté suave sin que se derrita. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;En un tazón pequeño, disolver la levadura completamente en el té de azahar.&amp;nbsp;Añadir 1/3 de taza de la leche y ½ taza de harina. mezclar bien, la mezcla debe ser pegajosa y homogénea. Cubrir con un trapo húmedo y dejar reposar en un lugar cálido durante 30 minutos hasta que se esponje un poco (nosotros la pusimos enfrente de la chimenea). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;En el tazón de la batidora, colocar las 3 ½ tazas de harina restantes, batir a velocidad baja con el azúcar, la sal y la ralladura de naranja utilizando el aspa de gancho durante 30 segundos. Agregar los huevos uno a uno, 1/3 de taza de leche restante y la masa con levadura. Batir a velocidad baja hasta que la masa comience a incorporarse. Subir la velocidad a media y agregar la mantequilla en trocitos poco a poco sin dejar de batir. La masa será pegajosa, pero no agregue más harina. Continuar batiendo durante 15 ó 20 minutos hasta que la masa sea suave y se despegue de las orillas del tazón. Si la masa sigue pegajosa después de 15 minutos de batido, puede agregar un poco más de harina (no debe ser más de 1/3 de taza, nosotros no tuvimos que agregar nada, la masa estaba bien suavecita en menos de 10 minutos). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Engrase un tazón grande con aceite y meta la masa. Cúbrala con una toalla húmeda y déjela reposar en un lugar cálido durante 90 minutos hasta que doble su tamaño. Ponche la masa con las manos. Doblar hacia adentro y voltear para que lo de abajo esté ahora arriba. Cubrirla con la toalla húmeda y dejar reposar durante 30 minutos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Divida la masa a la mitad. Cortar con un cuchillo (no la estire). Amase cada parte en forma de bola sobre la mesa, haga un agujero en medio y estírela para darle forma de dona. Meta los muñequitos de plástico dentro de la masa por la parte de abajo. Coloque cada rosca sobre una charola refractaria cubierta con papel encerado. Cubrir con una toalla húmeda y dejar inflar durante 60 minutos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Decore con trozos de fruta cristalizada y capricho. Para preparar el capricho. Mezclar con las manos las ocho cucharadas de mantequilla con el tercio de taza de azúcar y el tercio de taza de harina. Haga bolitas, aplástelas para que queden planas y colóquelas sobre secciones de la rosca. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Precaliente el horno a 180 grados (350°F) y hornear cada rosca durante 30 a 35 minutos hasta que esté dorada. Sirva en rebanadas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkNpC0Lt2I/AAAAAAAABcE/8y7YfArlz84/s1600/IMG_8213.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkNpC0Lt2I/AAAAAAAABcE/8y7YfArlz84/s400/IMG_8213.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-6666684331917402084?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/6666684331917402084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=6666684331917402084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6666684331917402084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6666684331917402084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/01/kings-ring-rosca-de-reyes.html' title='Kings Ring / Rosca de Reyes'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSkOYa5ANrI/AAAAAAAABcI/eEOlKjtQCPI/s72-c/IMG_8210.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-381601013764486115</id><published>2011-01-08T13:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T13:43:33.981-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sale at Safeway / Oferta en Safeway</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSjLYvC5Z0I/AAAAAAAABcA/NzBzEYzNt7Q/s1600/Sale+at+Safeway.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSjLYvC5Z0I/AAAAAAAABcA/NzBzEYzNt7Q/s400/Sale+at+Safeway.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This is an example of why you should always check if a sale is really a sale. We found it funny and wondered how many people bougth the green peppers just because they were "on sale". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Esta es un ejemplo de porqué siempre debes revisar si una oferta es realmente una oferta. Se nos hizo chistoso que el precio de oferta era exactamente el mismo precio que el precio anterior y nos preguntamos cuánta gente compró pimientos verdes solo porque estaban "en oferta".﻿&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-381601013764486115?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/381601013764486115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=381601013764486115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/381601013764486115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/381601013764486115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/01/sale-at-safeway-oferta-en-safeway.html' title='Sale at Safeway / Oferta en Safeway'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSjLYvC5Z0I/AAAAAAAABcA/NzBzEYzNt7Q/s72-c/Sale+at+Safeway.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5922845344002715035</id><published>2011-01-02T16:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T16:34:52.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A good year / Un buen año</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDB3ajqdlI/AAAAAAAABbM/ohlcj95EQKc/s1600/IMG_6999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDB3ajqdlI/AAAAAAAABbM/ohlcj95EQKc/s400/IMG_6999.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 was a good year for us. We got to travel, work, enjoy family and celebrate four years of marriage. As we remember the highlights of the year, we thank God for another year of happiness and health, joy, family and love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;2010 fue un año muy bueno para nosotros. Pudimos viajar, trabajar, disfrutar a la familia y celebrar cuatro años de matrimonio. Mientras recordamos el año, damos gracias a Dios por otro año de felicidad y salud, familia y amor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDLNLAAzvI/AAAAAAAABb0/xEgGpU-TUYQ/s1600/DSC01233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDLNLAAzvI/AAAAAAAABb0/xEgGpU-TUYQ/s400/DSC01233.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;We started the year at the beach, in Mexico, with our family from Tabasco. It was a gorgeous day. &lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Empezamos el año en la playa, en Mexico, con nuestra familia Tabasqueña. Fué un día precioso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We enjoyed our Canadian family as well, David a Georgine came to Calgary several times and we got to enjoy them. We also celebrated with them their wedding anniversary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Disfrutamos mucho&amp;nbsp;a nuestra familia Canadiense también. David y Georgine visitaron Calgary varias veces y pudimos disfrutar su compañía. También celebramos con ellos su aniversario de boda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDEjoPo11I/AAAAAAAABbc/xsg7StkYwSg/s1600/IMG_7867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDEjoPo11I/AAAAAAAABbc/xsg7StkYwSg/s400/IMG_7867.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDLn8vt5qI/AAAAAAAABb4/xZ2ngAkNkao/s1600/IMG_6490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDLn8vt5qI/AAAAAAAABb4/xZ2ngAkNkao/s400/IMG_6490.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;We were fortunate to keep our jobs in 2010, which was a difficult year after the economical crisis of 2008/2009. We were blessed being able to work on what we love. Catalina got to present at an international Conference in the US!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Fuimos afortunados en poder&amp;nbsp;conservar nuestros empleos en 2010, un año difícil después de la crisis económica de 2008/2009. Fuimos bendecidos en poder trabajar en lo que nos gusta. Catalina presentó una ponencia en una conferencia internacional en EU.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDPPQ7Xj0I/AAAAAAAABb8/uWWrRmlhRqg/s1600/IMG_6684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDPPQ7Xj0I/AAAAAAAABb8/uWWrRmlhRqg/s400/IMG_6684.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;We also were able to go back to Mexico in June and enjoy family again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Regresamos a México a mediados de año y disfrutamos a la familia de nuevo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDCE0Yrp0I/AAAAAAAABbQ/5XGFn9VtAps/s1600/IMG_7001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDCE0Yrp0I/AAAAAAAABbQ/5XGFn9VtAps/s400/IMG_7001.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDCtoqIFcI/AAAAAAAABbU/XOFrslYyVz4/s1600/IMG_7179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDCtoqIFcI/AAAAAAAABbU/XOFrslYyVz4/s400/IMG_7179.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDDU4ZrOEI/AAAAAAAABbY/9UzyDX1K_T4/s1600/IMG_0204.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDDU4ZrOEI/AAAAAAAABbY/9UzyDX1K_T4/s400/IMG_0204.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Our sister Amy got married this year, we celebrated with her, Scott and the rest of the family. We met and enjoyed some time with Scott's family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nuestra hermana Amy se casó este año, celebramos con ella, Scott y el resto de la familia. Conocimos y pasamos un tiempo con la familia de Scott.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDFjkiSEyI/AAAAAAAABbg/Qn-TgvJmhJw/s1600/IMG_7863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDFjkiSEyI/AAAAAAAABbg/Qn-TgvJmhJw/s400/IMG_7863.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Our dear friends Fabricio and Carina also got married and we were part of their beautiful wedding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nuestros queridos amigos Fabricio y Carina también se casaron y fuimos parte de su hermosa boda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDGAqzotII/AAAAAAAABbk/C9qPMIO4_l0/s1600/IMG_8115.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDGAqzotII/AAAAAAAABbk/C9qPMIO4_l0/s400/IMG_8115.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;This year Catalina became a Canadian Citizen during a very beautiful ceremony. She was very happy to share this day with David and Georgine and celebrate with them, Paul, Karen, and Jenny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este año Catalina recibió la ciudadanía Canadiense durante una hermosa ceremonia. Ella estuvo felíz de poder disfrutar este día con David y Georgine y celebrar con ellos, Paul, Karen y Jenny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDGWB3Zg8I/AAAAAAAABbo/PB6n-kMeCrA/s1600/IMG_8167.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDGWB3Zg8I/AAAAAAAABbo/PB6n-kMeCrA/s400/IMG_8167.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;We also enjoyed being part of the growth at our churches, joined a new Home Group (without leaving the previous one), and received so many blesssings that we could not count them all. Thank you, Father!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;También disfrutamos siendo parte del crecimiento de nuestras iglesias, nos unimos a un nuevo grupo de oración (sin abandonar el anterior) y recibimos tantas bendiciones que no podríamos contarlas todas. ¡Gracias, Padre!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;In summary, 2010 was a good year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;En resumen, ¡2010 fué un buen año!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5922845344002715035?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5922845344002715035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5922845344002715035' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5922845344002715035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5922845344002715035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-year-un-buen-ano.html' title='A good year / Un buen año'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSDB3ajqdlI/AAAAAAAABbM/ohlcj95EQKc/s72-c/IMG_6999.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2265300530822423610</id><published>2011-01-02T11:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T11:17:59.114-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 2010 / Navidad 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC3JU0JZTI/AAAAAAAABa0/6yc6ekDm2Jo/s1600/IMG_8176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC3JU0JZTI/AAAAAAAABa0/6yc6ekDm2Jo/s400/IMG_8176.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This year we spent Christmas in Calgary, like every other year. Our sister Jenny hosted the Christmas dinner and we were fortunate to spend the afternoon and evening with Paul's parents and all his siblings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Christmas Eve, David and Georgine came from Three Hills and stayed with us, it was a very nice evening for Catalina (Paul was working), she got to know more about the Nadeaus and together they used Google to "visit" places where David and Georgine lived in Toronto and Manitoba, and also visited Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We started Christmas day with brunch at our place. Paul prepared crepes and Blake and Karen came and spent the morning with us and with David and Georgine. Later on we went to Jenny and Adam's home and spent the rest of the day there, chatting, eating and enjoying the family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we enjoyed the most was the family time and of course, the food!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Este año pasamos la Navidad en Calgary, como cada dos años. Nuestra hermana Jenny organizó la cena de Navidad y tuvimos la oportunidad de pasar la tarde y la noche con los papás y hermanos de Paul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Durante la Nochebuena, David y Georgine vinieron de Three Hills y se quedaron con nosotros, fué una tarde muy bonita para Catalina (Paul estaba trabajando), ella conoció más de los Nadeaus y juntos usaron Google para "visitar" lugares donde David y Georgine vivieron en Toronto y en Manitoba, y también visitaron México.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Empezamos el día de Navidad con un desayuno en nuestra casa. Paul preparó crepas y Blake y Karen vinieron y pasaron la mañana con nosotros y con David y Georgine. Después nos fuimos a la casa de Jenny y Adam y pasamos el resto del día ahí platicando, comiendo y disfrutando la familia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Lo que más disfrutamos fué la familia y por supuesto, ¡La comida!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC3km2eIcI/AAAAAAAABa4/m06PEeV5wZ8/s1600/IMG_8187.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC3km2eIcI/AAAAAAAABa4/m06PEeV5wZ8/s400/IMG_8187.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our beatiful niece Jackie / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nuestra hermosa sobrina Jackie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4em6vIwI/AAAAAAAABa8/9IpKVuirRCs/s1600/IMG_8180.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4em6vIwI/AAAAAAAABa8/9IpKVuirRCs/s400/IMG_8180.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Amy &amp;amp; Scott&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4ltATX4I/AAAAAAAABbA/50K2lqO_M0A/s1600/IMG_8191.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4ltATX4I/AAAAAAAABbA/50K2lqO_M0A/s400/IMG_8191.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gift time! / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;¡Hora de abrir regalos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4qIBmeYI/AAAAAAAABbE/8N2YZyShyOw/s1600/IMG_8193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4qIBmeYI/AAAAAAAABbE/8N2YZyShyOw/s400/IMG_8193.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;David, Georgine &amp;amp; Catalina&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4ukrpEvI/AAAAAAAABbI/TwHCN70TQNg/s1600/IMG_8194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC4ukrpEvI/AAAAAAAABbI/TwHCN70TQNg/s400/IMG_8194.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;﻿Paul enjoying his Dad's camera / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Paul jugando con la cámara de su papá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2265300530822423610?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2265300530822423610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2265300530822423610' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2265300530822423610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2265300530822423610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2011/01/christmas-2010-navidad-2010.html' title='Christmas 2010 / Navidad 2010'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TSC3JU0JZTI/AAAAAAAABa0/6yc6ekDm2Jo/s72-c/IMG_8176.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1400128204673247576</id><published>2010-11-28T11:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-28T14:04:05.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Four months in four minutes / Cuatro meses en cuatro minutos</title><content type='html'>As always, we get so busy with our lives that we neglect our blog. Now we will attempt to summarize the events from the last four months - with pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Como siempre, estamos tan ocupados en nuestras vidas que olvidamos nuestro blog. Ahora intentaremos resumir los eventos de los cuatro meses pasados - con fotos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKRYqCEOnI/AAAAAAAABaI/x9_t-h3scxc/s1600/IMG_7360.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKRYqCEOnI/AAAAAAAABaI/x9_t-h3scxc/s400/IMG_7360.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is a rare occasion. Paul is normally not on stage and especially not singing with his boss. Here, with his Mexican soccer team jersey at a Latino concert at the church last summer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Esta es una ocasión muy infrecuente. Paul normalmente no está en el escenario y menos cantando con su jefe. Aquí, con su jersey del equipo de futbol mexicano en un concierto latino en la iglesia durante el verano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKTLPqU0kI/AAAAAAAABaM/H7wfB0aqEvM/s1600/IMG_7439.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKTLPqU0kI/AAAAAAAABaM/H7wfB0aqEvM/s400/IMG_7439.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, during the Parish Picnic, Polito properly loaded with popcorn and cotton candy is ready to enjoy&amp;nbsp;this beautiful ranch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Aquí, durante el pic nic de la parroquia, Polito cargado de palomitas y algodón de azúcar, listo para disfrutar de este hermoso rancho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKUXQtPGOI/AAAAAAAABaQ/bE1ltSwg54I/s1600/IMG_7602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKUXQtPGOI/AAAAAAAABaQ/bE1ltSwg54I/s400/IMG_7602.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A general view of the Rock the River tour when they came to Calgary (during the smoky days). Hundreds of young people came to Christ that day. Catalina enjoyed her favourite band, Starfield.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Vista general del concierto de Rock de River cuando vinieron a Calgary (durante los días en que había humo por los incendios forestales). Cientos de jóvenes se acercaron a Cristo por primera vez. Catalina disfrutó de su banda favorita, Starfield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKWYPYTC8I/AAAAAAAABaU/kzF6xdfQNOg/s1600/IMG_7635.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKWYPYTC8I/AAAAAAAABaU/kzF6xdfQNOg/s400/IMG_7635.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Next day after the concert, Starfield came to First Alliance Church and was in charge of worship. It was an amazing service and the music was beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Al día siguiente del concierto, starfield tocó en la Iglesia de la Primera Alianza y estuvo a cargo de la adoración. Fue un servicio increíble y la música estuvo padrísima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKYoC2tckI/AAAAAAAABaY/KicONuPHk5Y/s1600/IMG_7776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKYoC2tckI/AAAAAAAABaY/KicONuPHk5Y/s400/IMG_7776.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Mid September - Catalina attended a course in San Diego and enjoyed beautiful weather while in Calgary we received some snow (that melted right away). She really loved san Diego. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Mediados de Septiembre - Catalina fué a San Diego a tomar un curso y disfrutó un clima hermoso mientras en Calgary recibimos un poquito de nieve (que se derritió enseguida). Le encantó San Diego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKaAxI1G2I/AAAAAAAABac/M5x41CplvSA/s1600/IMG_7861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKaAxI1G2I/AAAAAAAABac/M5x41CplvSA/s400/IMG_7861.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;In October we were invited to celebrate with our youngest sister Amy that she is now married. She eloped in July and married Scott. We wish them the best in their marriage!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;En Octubre fuimos invitados a celebrar que nuestra hermana menor Amy está ahora casada. Ella se casó en secreto en Julio con Scott. ¡Les deseamos lo mejor en su matrimonio!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKj_ASMl9I/AAAAAAAABas/YQzICTtXwqg/s1600/IMG_8099.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKj_ASMl9I/AAAAAAAABas/YQzICTtXwqg/s400/IMG_8099.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On November 6th, we celebrated with our lovely nephew Anderson his second birthday, he is growing so fast! All he wanted to do was blowing the candles over and over. Very cute!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El&amp;nbsp;6 de noviembre, celebramos con nuestro adorable sobrino Anderson su segundo cumpleaños, ¡está creciendo tan rápido! Todo lo que él quería hcer era soplar las velitas una y otra vez. ¡Muy tierno!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKa_jicHFI/AAAAAAAABag/TuG1U2sf8IM/s1600/IMG_8127.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKa_jicHFI/AAAAAAAABag/TuG1U2sf8IM/s400/IMG_8127.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In early November we participated and enjoyed enormously Caryna and Fabricio´s wedding. Our entire Home Group (except for Lina) attended the ceremony and the party at the Lynx Ridge Golf Club. What a beautiful day! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;A principios de noviembre participamos y disfrutamos muchísimo la boda de Caryna y Fabricio. Nuestro grupo de la iglesia (exceptuando Lina) acudió a la ceremonia y a la fiesta en el club de golf Lynx Ridge. ¡Qué hermoso día!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKcvA7NqcI/AAAAAAAABak/iwqFAL0sgx8/s1600/IMG_8142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKcvA7NqcI/AAAAAAAABak/iwqFAL0sgx8/s400/IMG_8142.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Mid november Catalina received her engineering ring. She has been registered as a Professional Engineer and was very happy to participate at the Iron Ring Ceremony (which should be mentioned separately).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;A mediados de noviembre Catalina recibió su anillo de ingeniera. Ya ha sido aceptada y registrada como ingeniera profesional y estuvo muy contenta de participar en la ceremonia del anillo de acero (que deberá ser descrita por separado)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKefZxBhXI/AAAAAAAABao/58mSSlpm62g/s1600/IMG_8165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKefZxBhXI/AAAAAAAABao/58mSSlpm62g/s400/IMG_8165.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Thursday Catalina became a Canadian Citizen. The long journey is finally over! After passing her test in the morning she received the Citizenship in the afternoon. Paul, David and Georgine were there for the very emotive ceremony. Jenny and Karen joined us to celebrate at dinner. Jenny brought with her a different Citizenship test that everyone enjoyed completing. We all passed! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El Jueves pasado Catalina se convirtió en una nueva Ciudadana Canadiense. El largo proceso por fin terminó. Después de aprobar el examen en la mañana, ella recibió la ciudadanía en la tarde. Paul y sus papás estuvieron ahí durante la muy emotiva ceremonia. Jenny y Karen nos alcanzaron para celebrar en la cena. Jenny trajo consigo un examen de ciudadanía muy diferente que todos disfrutamos hacer. ¡Todos aprobamos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1400128204673247576?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1400128204673247576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1400128204673247576' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1400128204673247576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1400128204673247576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/11/four-months-in-four-minutes-cuatro.html' title='Four months in four minutes / Cuatro meses en cuatro minutos'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TPKRYqCEOnI/AAAAAAAABaI/x9_t-h3scxc/s72-c/IMG_7360.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1908424648198776517</id><published>2010-07-30T18:58:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T16:33:31.852-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The opal mine / La mina de ópalos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNh56uIvNI/AAAAAAAABXA/od36uGiuiFc/s1600/IMG_6889.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNh56uIvNI/AAAAAAAABXA/od36uGiuiFc/s400/IMG_6889.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The opal mine “La Carbonera” is located in a town know as La Trinidad (the Trinity), 12 km south of Tequis. This mine is one of the oldest and largest opal mines in the country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;According to historians, the opals from Querétaro were utilized by the Aztecs in their ornamental and ceremonial objects between years 1200 and 1520. Opals were known by the Aztecs as “humming bird stones” because of the iridescent colours, comparable to the feathers of the bird.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The $4.00 CND&amp;nbsp;tour started with a visit to the house of the family in charge of the mine. They have “conditioned” pick-up trucks (4x4s with benches where you sit and some cover from the sun). The terrain is not easy for any other type of cars; the ride takes about ten minutes (the miners walk this road every day).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;La mina de ópalos “La Carbonera” se localiza en un pueblo llamado “La Trinidad”, 12 kilómetros al sur de Tequis. Esta es una de las más antiguas y más grandes minas de ópalos en el país.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;De acuerdo con los historiadores, los ópalos de Querétaro fueron utilizados por los aztecas en objetos ornamentales y ceremoniales durante los años comprendidos entre 1200 y 1520. Los aztecas llamaban a los ópalos “piedra de colibrí”, debido al parecido entre&amp;nbsp;los colores iridiscentes de la piedra y el plumaje de los colibríes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;El tour ($50 pesos) inició con una visita a la casa de la familia a cargo de la mina. Ellos tienen camionetas pick-up “acondicionadas” (con bancas donde te sientas y con un techito para cubrirte del sol). El terreno no es fácil para otro tipo de vehículos ; el viaje toma unos diez minutos (los mineros caminan el trayecto todos los días).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNiPS5vTmI/AAAAAAAABXI/A99zfpak0yI/s1600/DSC01386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNiPS5vTmI/AAAAAAAABXI/A99zfpak0yI/s400/DSC01386.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The ride to the mine / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;El camino a la mina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFN0s2AHaMI/AAAAAAAABZQ/GgshFWAcris/s1600/DSC01387.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFN0s2AHaMI/AAAAAAAABZQ/GgshFWAcris/s400/DSC01387.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Once in the mine, the guide explains that opals are semi precious stones which price depends on properties such as size, shape, iridescence, etc. opals are formed with silica and water, the silica coming from quartz and the water from surface water infiltration and stagnation in the porous rocks. The guide provides everyone with pick axes (just like the seven dwarfs’) and explains that the miners still use those tools today to extract the opals. We are told that whatever we found is ours, by law.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Una vez en la mina, el guía nos explica que los ópalos son piedras semi-preciosas y que su precio depende de&amp;nbsp;propietades tales como tamaño, forma, etc. Los ópalos se forman con sílice y agua, sílice del cuarzo y agua proveniente de infiltraciones de agua superficial, que se aloja en los huecos de la rocas. El guía nos da a todos un martillo de minero (como el de los siete enanitos) y nos explica que los mineros todavía usan esa herramienta para extraer los ópalos. Se nos informa que todo lo que encontremos es nuestro, por ley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNoDdFliJI/AAAAAAAABYA/9j_gMKE5j-w/s1600/IMG_6877.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNoDdFliJI/AAAAAAAABYA/9j_gMKE5j-w/s400/IMG_6877.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ready to go mining / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Listo para ir a buscar ópalos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent several hours walking, listening to mining stories and looking for the perfect opal. We all found some small rocks with embedded opals that we kept as souvenirs. It was a very special day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Pasamos varias horas caminando, escuchando historias de mineros y buscando el ópalo perfecto. Todos encontramos rocas con ópalos incrustados que conservamos de recuerdo. Fue un día muy especial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjNfaTZ8I/AAAAAAAABXY/VSxgGaX7bk4/s1600/IMG_6909.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjNfaTZ8I/AAAAAAAABXY/VSxgGaX7bk4/s400/IMG_6909.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Inside of the mine / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;dentro de la mina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjg4ZX3bI/AAAAAAAABXg/fS3iz0p8VSg/s1600/IMG_6895.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjg4ZX3bI/AAAAAAAABXg/fS3iz0p8VSg/s400/IMG_6895.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Listening to the instructions / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;escuchando las instrucciones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjs2jD-LI/AAAAAAAABXo/-Ej8ZJK4dBQ/s1600/IMG_6883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNjs2jD-LI/AAAAAAAABXo/-Ej8ZJK4dBQ/s400/IMG_6883.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Heigh - ho, heigh-ho... / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho a trabajar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNkF5ppF6I/AAAAAAAABXw/M_mzOZ7N4L4/s1600/DSC01413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNkF5ppF6I/AAAAAAAABXw/M_mzOZ7N4L4/s400/DSC01413.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;And here are some of our opals from the mine "La Carbonera".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Y aquí están algunos de nuestros ópalos, de la mina "La Carbonera".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNtWg_BeeI/AAAAAAAABYg/0SExanL9zjM/s1600/Mexico+2010+040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNtWg_BeeI/AAAAAAAABYg/0SExanL9zjM/s400/Mexico+2010+040.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNODDOsecI/AAAAAAAABWQ/rY6-SG2-bts/s1600/IMG_6936.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNODDOsecI/AAAAAAAABWQ/rY6-SG2-bts/s400/IMG_6936.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We arrived to Tequisquiapan with Doug and Naye and we were received with lots of love and a wonderful meal: pozole, a pre-hispanic meal that contains chicken broth, hominy, chicken, lettuce, avocado, radish, onion, oregano, and can be as spicy as you want.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tequisquiapan is the small town that we described previously, where Catalina’s family live. We spent the rest of our vacation there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Llegamos a Tequisquiapan con Doug y Naye y fuimos recibidos con mucho amor y con una comida maravillosa: pozole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Tequisquiapan es el pequeño pueblo que describimos anteriormente, donde la familia de Catalina vive. Pasamos el resto de nuestras vacaciones ahí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNOSU3-hvI/AAAAAAAABWY/LoL6_Oupna4/s1600/IMG_6873.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNOSU3-hvI/AAAAAAAABWY/LoL6_Oupna4/s400/IMG_6873.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The flowers that Dea placed in our bedroom / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Las flores que Dea puso en nuestro cuarto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNOiRe18GI/AAAAAAAABWg/d4wVX3aoymU/s1600/IMG_6871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNOiRe18GI/AAAAAAAABWg/d4wVX3aoymU/s400/IMG_6871.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Bella and the basket of Mexican candy that Dea and her prepared for us &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Bella y la canasta de dulces mexicanos que Dea y ella prepararon para nosotros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNPCVMLj_I/AAAAAAAABWo/OJkTlIbU47w/s1600/DSC01379.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNPCVMLj_I/AAAAAAAABWo/OJkTlIbU47w/s400/DSC01379.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After enjoying the&amp;nbsp;delicious pozole / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Después de disfrutar el delicioso pozole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;Bella &amp;amp; us / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Bella con nosotros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4768387469498090395?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4768387469498090395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4768387469498090395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4768387469498090395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4768387469498090395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/07/tequisquiapan-queretaro.html' title='Tequisquiapan, Querétaro'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TFNODDOsecI/AAAAAAAABWQ/rY6-SG2-bts/s72-c/IMG_6936.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2592196058694745066</id><published>2010-07-24T17:21:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T17:21:53.165-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Second stop: Corralejo / Segunda parada: Corralejo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsQk1-bOI/AAAAAAAABUo/nHWVLQ-SDlM/s1600/IMG_6823.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsQk1-bOI/AAAAAAAABUo/nHWVLQ-SDlM/s400/IMG_6823.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doug and Naye not only received us at their home and took us places in Leon, but they also came to Tequisquiapan (our final destination) with us. Before getting to Tequisquiapan, they took us to a very special place: Hacienda Corralejo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Doug y Naye no solo nos recibieron en su casa y nos llevaron a varios lugares en León, sino que también fueron a Tequisquiapan (nuestro destino final) con nosotros. Antes de ir a Tequis, nos llevaron a un lugar muy especial: la Hacienda Corralejo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsdOyeoHI/AAAAAAAABU4/aEF1AUhBAQw/s1600/IMG_6832.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsdOyeoHI/AAAAAAAABU4/aEF1AUhBAQw/s400/IMG_6832.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The beautiful Hacienda Corralejo was built in 1775 in Penjamo, Guanajuato, and is a historic place because Miguel Hidalgo, "the father of the country" was born there. Miguel Hidalgo is a Mexican hero. Being a priest, he started the Mexican independence of Spain in 1810 (this year, Mexico is celebrating 200 years of independence). In this hacienda tequila is produced these days and we took a tour through the tequila production process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;La hermosa hacienda Corralejo fué construida en 1775 en Pénjamo, Guanajuato, y es un lugar histórico porque Miguel Hidalgo, el padre de la patria nació ahí. En esta hacienda se produce tequila y tomamos un tour a través del proceso de producción.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsWsNJMqI/AAAAAAAABUw/-GdFPPjDhKM/s1600/IMG_6826.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsWsNJMqI/AAAAAAAABUw/-GdFPPjDhKM/s400/IMG_6826.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsh3gCg4I/AAAAAAAABVA/AyXyP2aP3uE/s1600/IMG_6835.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsh3gCg4I/AAAAAAAABVA/AyXyP2aP3uE/s400/IMG_6835.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The cellars / &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Las cavas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsn9q4zTI/AAAAAAAABVI/-ClVOllAEb0/s1600/IMG_6839.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsn9q4zTI/AAAAAAAABVI/-ClVOllAEb0/s400/IMG_6839.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The blue/purple bottles are used in all windows / &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Las botellas azules/violetas son usadas en todas las &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;ventanas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEts2MYW-vI/AAAAAAAABVY/00yA-Wi4Jag/s1600/IMG_6861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEts2MYW-vI/AAAAAAAABVY/00yA-Wi4Jag/s400/IMG_6861.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEttcYGIthI/AAAAAAAABV4/zEmYEgq9lRY/s400/IMG_6869.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsverMijI/AAAAAAAABVQ/VMT5vyyj1UY/s1600/IMG_6852.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsverMijI/AAAAAAAABVQ/VMT5vyyj1UY/s400/IMG_6852.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Testing a very strong tequila (after the first distillation) /&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Probando un tequila muy fuerte (después de la primera destilación)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the tour, we were able to test all the different tequilas that are made there, and got some for home (which we recently enjoyed).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Al final del tour, pudimos probar todos los diferentes tequilas que se fabrican ahí, y compramos también para traer a casa (el cual recientemente disfrutamos).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEttpSECt0I/AAAAAAAABWA/-tp-6jnZL5g/s1600/IMG_7336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEttpSECt0I/AAAAAAAABWA/-tp-6jnZL5g/s400/IMG_7336.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEttw9yjMEI/AAAAAAAABWI/_TcGHqnmyR8/s1600/IMG_6859.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEttw9yjMEI/AAAAAAAABWI/_TcGHqnmyR8/s400/IMG_6859.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2592196058694745066?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2592196058694745066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2592196058694745066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2592196058694745066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2592196058694745066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/07/second-stop-corralejo-segunda-parada.html' title='Second stop: Corralejo / Segunda parada: Corralejo'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEtsQk1-bOI/AAAAAAAABUo/nHWVLQ-SDlM/s72-c/IMG_6823.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8981943292065854685</id><published>2010-07-18T15:44:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T16:34:23.295-06:00</updated><title type='text'>First stop: León, Guanajuato / Primera parada: León, Guanajuato</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwGCTUL0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/r_Mi8LaO2bo/s1600/IMG_6772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwGCTUL0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/r_Mi8LaO2bo/s400/IMG_6772.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Every time we go to Mexico, Catalina tries to show Paul a new part of the country. This time, we got our tickets to Leon, (which translates into Lion), Guanajuato where our aunt Lupita, cousins Douglas, Nayeli, and Percy live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Leon is the most populated city in the State of Guanajuato and is famous for its strong leather industry. Shoes, belts, jackets, purses (and everything made in leather) are manufactured here and sold locally, nationally and internationally.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We were received as royalty by our cousins Doug and Naye and stayed at their very nice new home. Together with our aunt Lupita, they took us to very nice places, including two exceptional restaurants, one with international cuisine and the second very Mexican, where we enjoyed authentic Mexican food, accompanied by two salsas, made right at our table! Now, that's fresh!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Cada vez que vamos a México, Catalina ha tratado de mostrar a Paul una nueva parte del país. Esta vez sacamos nuestros boletos a León, Guanajuato, donde viven nuestra tía Lupita y primos Douglas, Nayeli y Percy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;León es la ciudad más poblada del Estado de Guanajuato, y es famosa por su industria de la piel. Aquí se manufacturan zapatos, cinturones, chamarras, bolsas (y todo lo que es hecho en piel), y se venden localmente, nacionalmente e internacionalmente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Nuestros primos Nayeli y Douglas nos recibieron como si fuéramos de la nobleza y nos quedamos en su hermosísima casa nueva. Nuestra tía Lupita y ellos nos llevaron a lugares muy lindos, incluyendo dos restaurantes excepcionales, uno con comida internacional y el segundo muy mexicano, donde disfrutamos comida auténtica mexicana, acompañada por dos salsas deliciosas, hechas en nuestra mesa, ¡Verdaderamente frescas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwZL81hQI/AAAAAAAABTo/jKxc02cIc8c/s1600/IMG_6785.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwZL81hQI/AAAAAAAABTo/jKxc02cIc8c/s400/IMG_6785.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A Mexican lady preparing our salsas / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Una señora mexicana preparando nuestras salsas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwoy-ovNI/AAAAAAAABT4/pAU5S_cl5Mo/s1600/IMG_6790.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwoy-ovNI/AAAAAAAABT4/pAU5S_cl5Mo/s400/IMG_6790.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Paul enjoying a&amp;nbsp;delicious tortilla soup&lt;/span&gt; / Paul disfrutando una deliciosa sopa de tortilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwgyWw8EI/AAAAAAAABTw/sVHPq7DX51Q/s1600/IMG_6789.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwgyWw8EI/AAAAAAAABTw/sVHPq7DX51Q/s400/IMG_6789.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Douglas (stuffed), aunt Lupita, and Percy&lt;/span&gt; / Douglas (llenísimo), tía Lupita y Percy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;We had to do some leather shopping, so our aunt Lupita took us to the shoe malls. Yes, Leon has complete malls of only shoes. We found all the best brands in the country (as well as unknown brands), there is even a huge shoe outlet mall, where we discover great deals and great selection. We also visited markets with many belts, purses, jackets, boots, etc (all leather). We got our good supply of shoes and belts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Teníamos&amp;nbsp;que ir de compras, así que nuestra tía Lupita nos llevó a las plazas de zapatos. Sí, León tiene plazas completas de solo zapatos. Encontramos las mejores marcas (y otras no tan conocidas). Hasta visitamos un enorme centro comercial de liquidación de zapatos, donde descubrimos muy buenas ofertas y una gran selección. También visitamos mercados de cinturones, bolsas, chamarras, botas, etc. Compramos una buena dotación de zapatos y cinturones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENx05v5kNI/AAAAAAAABUY/PxShxxQ9K4U/s1600/IMG_6740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENx05v5kNI/AAAAAAAABUY/PxShxxQ9K4U/s400/IMG_6740.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The shoe outlet mall&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;/ El centro comercial de liquidaciones de zapatos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;We also visited the zoo, the historical downtown, used the local transit system, and of course, enjoyed great Mexican food. The highlight was spending time with that part of the family; all of them speak fluent English, so Paul was able to fully enjoy our time there. Catalina was in heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;También visitamos el zoológico, el centro histórico, tomamos el medio de transporte local (la famosa oruga), y desde luego, disfrutamos la deliciosa comida mexicana. La parte más padre fué poder pasar tiempo con esta parte de la familia; todos ellos hablan inglés, así que Paul pudo disfrutar completamente nuestros días en León. Catalina estaba en el paraíso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENxtycL4xI/AAAAAAAABUQ/4cqDbOsTW9Q/s1600/IMG_6742.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENxtycL4xI/AAAAAAAABUQ/4cqDbOsTW9Q/s400/IMG_6742.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Paul at the zoo / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Polito en el zoológico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENxmf7-suI/AAAAAAAABUI/J_CN2pjZXfY/s1600/IMG_6748.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENxmf7-suI/AAAAAAAABUI/J_CN2pjZXfY/s400/IMG_6748.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A very friendly giraffe at the zoo came to say hi right to our camera / &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Una jirafa amigable salió a saludarnos, derechito a la cámara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENx7ffugeI/AAAAAAAABUg/PhOD1OZ_vUY/s1600/IMG_6738.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENx7ffugeI/AAAAAAAABUg/PhOD1OZ_vUY/s400/IMG_6738.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Inside of Leon´s cathedral / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Interior de la catedral de León&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwLQaD7cI/AAAAAAAABTY/sDyKiOzU4Os/s1600/IMG_6776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwLQaD7cI/AAAAAAAABTY/sDyKiOzU4Os/s400/IMG_6776.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Us at the viewport / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;En el mirador&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwRtohvOI/AAAAAAAABTg/vDUzTzLg7PA/s1600/IMG_6795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwRtohvOI/AAAAAAAABTg/vDUzTzLg7PA/s400/IMG_6795.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;At a life's tree / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;En un árbol de la vida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8981943292065854685?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8981943292065854685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8981943292065854685' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8981943292065854685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8981943292065854685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-stop-leon-guanajuato-primera.html' title='First stop: León, Guanajuato / Primera parada: León, Guanajuato'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TENwGCTUL0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/r_Mi8LaO2bo/s72-c/IMG_6772.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7072902491851843614</id><published>2010-07-17T16:29:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T16:30:20.188-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Back again! / Regresamos, otra vez</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEItnQ4vMUI/AAAAAAAABTI/gJ1T3_xzo7o/s1600/IMG_6791.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEItnQ4vMUI/AAAAAAAABTI/gJ1T3_xzo7o/s400/IMG_6791.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yes, we just came back from our summer vacation to Mexico. With Catalina being from Mexico, we always have nice places to visit, without even thinking about the beaches; Mexico is much more than beaches. This time, we visited Mexico City (briefly) and the states of Guanajuato and Queretaro and have many pictures to share. Stay tuned!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Sí, acabamos de regresar de nuestras vacaciones de verano en México. Siendo Catalina mexicana, siempre tenemos muchos lugares para pasear, sin siquiera pensar en las playas. México es mucho más que playas. Esta vez, visitamos brevemente la Ciudad de México y los Estados de Guanajuato y Querétaro y tenemos muchas fotos qué compartir. ¡No se desconecten!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7072902491851843614?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7072902491851843614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7072902491851843614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7072902491851843614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7072902491851843614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/07/back-again-regresamos-otra-vez.html' title='Back again! / Regresamos, otra vez'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TEItnQ4vMUI/AAAAAAAABTI/gJ1T3_xzo7o/s72-c/IMG_6791.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-75626526943408657</id><published>2010-05-29T13:09:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-29T13:17:41.221-06:00</updated><title type='text'>We never win anything... / Nunca ganamos nada ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlaBI68NI/AAAAAAAABSo/Xhe_i9pc2BQ/s1600/IMG_6559.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlaBI68NI/AAAAAAAABSo/Xhe_i9pc2BQ/s400/IMG_6559.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;... except this time. Almost a year ago during a Canada Day celebration we entered for a draw of airplane tickets that a travel agency was sponsoring. We did not win the airplane tickets but we won a one night accommodation at a deluxe room with mountain view at the Rimrock hotel (in Banff), taxes included. Last weekend we used our gift and spend a couple wonderful days at the mountains, visited Lake Louise and Banff , enjoyed the hotel facilities, played settlers, and had our wine, cheese and bread plus some dessert at the hotel. It was a very nice little retreat for us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;...excepto esta vez. Hace casi un año durante una celebración del día de Canadá, participamos en una rifa de unos boletos de avión que una agencia de viajes patrocinó. No ganamos los boletos de avión, pero ganamos una noche de hotel en un cuarto de lujo con vista a las montañas en el Rimrock (en las montañas rocallosas que están en el parque Banff), impuestos incluídos. El fin de semana pasado usamos nuestro regalo y pasamos un par de días padrísimos en las montañas, visitamos el lago Louise y Banff, disfrutamos las instalaciones del hotel,&amp;nbsp;cenamos nuestro famoso vino, queso y pan&amp;nbsp;mas postres en el hotel. Fué un hermoso retiro para nosotros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlUIdwL7I/AAAAAAAABSg/tRHeG4_SeAw/s1600/IMG_6547.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlUIdwL7I/AAAAAAAABSg/tRHeG4_SeAw/s400/IMG_6547.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The view from our window / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;La vista desde nuestra ventana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlehIYcnI/AAAAAAAABSw/T73kx1Va-lw/s1600/IMG_6506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlehIYcnI/AAAAAAAABSw/T73kx1Va-lw/s400/IMG_6506.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Paul in Lake Louise / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Paul en el Lago Louise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFljSUDHTI/AAAAAAAABS4/iUqYKvRUYc4/s1600/IMG_6518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFljSUDHTI/AAAAAAAABS4/iUqYKvRUYc4/s400/IMG_6518.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Us in Lake Louise / &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Juntos en el lago Louise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFnUHeeLbI/AAAAAAAABTA/tNEuW8VLVK4/s1600/IMG_6568.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFnUHeeLbI/AAAAAAAABTA/tNEuW8VLVK4/s400/IMG_6568.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Dessert and coffee at the hotel /&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt; Postre y café en el hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-75626526943408657?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/75626526943408657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=75626526943408657' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/75626526943408657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/75626526943408657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-never-win-anything-nunca-ganamos.html' title='We never win anything... / Nunca ganamos nada ...'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/TAFlaBI68NI/AAAAAAAABSo/Xhe_i9pc2BQ/s72-c/IMG_6559.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-9022423530165447350</id><published>2010-05-23T16:26:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T16:26:26.462-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy anniversary!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpDo4k_WI/AAAAAAAABR4/udRP9vTzrvU/s1600/IMG_6486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpDo4k_WI/AAAAAAAABR4/udRP9vTzrvU/s320/IMG_6486.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"&gt;Mom and Dad (Paul's parents) recently celebrated 37 years of marriage. They came to Calgary and invited all the children for a Thai dinner. We enjoyed celebrating together with everybody this great occasion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"&gt;Mom and Dad you are a great couple, a big example to all your children and we are very blessed to have you. May the Lord give you many more years of joy, peace and love together! Happy Anniversary!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Mom y Dad (los papás de Paul) celebraron recientemente 37 años de matrimonio. Vinieron a Calgary e invitaron a todos los hijos a una cena tailandesa. Nosotros disfrutamos mucho celebrando con la familia esta importante ocasión.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Mom y Dad, ustedes son una gran pareja, un ejemplo para todos sus hijos y nosotros hemos sido bendecidos al tenerles. ¡Que Dios les conceda muchos años más de gozo, paz y amor juntos! ¡Felíz aniversario!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpWPbKJuI/AAAAAAAABSI/yUygGp8mPu4/s1600/IMG_6490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpWPbKJuI/AAAAAAAABSI/yUygGp8mPu4/s400/IMG_6490.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dad, Mom, &amp;amp; Jenny&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpRNL2crI/AAAAAAAABSA/NzWws0g8m8I/s1600/IMG_6488.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpRNL2crI/AAAAAAAABSA/NzWws0g8m8I/s400/IMG_6488.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Karen &amp;amp; Blake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpik27STI/AAAAAAAABSQ/SmBEAEDITZk/s1600/IMG_6495.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpik27STI/AAAAAAAABSQ/SmBEAEDITZk/s400/IMG_6495.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Adam &amp;amp; Anderson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mqwiVmWqI/AAAAAAAABSY/v0YdNe9n10M/s1600/IMG_6489.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mqwiVmWqI/AAAAAAAABSY/v0YdNe9n10M/s400/IMG_6489.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Catalina &amp;amp; Paul&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-9022423530165447350?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/9022423530165447350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=9022423530165447350' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/9022423530165447350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/9022423530165447350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/05/happy-anniversary.html' title='Happy anniversary!'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S_mpDo4k_WI/AAAAAAAABR4/udRP9vTzrvU/s72-c/IMG_6486.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2359789468037766863</id><published>2010-05-09T16:09:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T16:00:50.906-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Waiting for Spring / Esperando la primavera</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S-cwaeuMMgI/AAAAAAAABRo/_2-gGV0Vln8/s1600/IMG_6322.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S-cw3Kk6JNI/AAAAAAAABRw/Nege3vYFm0o/s1600/IMG_6332.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S-cw3Kk6JNI/AAAAAAAABRw/Nege3vYFm0o/s400/IMG_6332.JPG" tt="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The rest of the world is enjoying Spring, warm weather and green grass, flowers and birds. Here in Calgary we still haven't experienced Spring. This picture was taken (in front of our home) over a week ago; we have been enjoying some snow (melted by now) and not so warm days. The good thing is that we will really appreciate the Summer when it finally comes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;El resto del mundo ya está disfrutando a la primavera, clima tibio y pasto verde, flores y pájaros. Aquí en Calgary todavía no hemos experimentado la primavera. Esta foto fué tomada (frente a nuestra casa) hace poco más de una semana; hemos estado "disfrutando" algo de nieve (por ahora derretida) y días no muy cálidos. Lo bueno es que nosotros vamos a apreciar más y disfrutar más del verano cuando por fin venga.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2359789468037766863?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2359789468037766863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2359789468037766863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2359789468037766863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2359789468037766863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/05/waiting-for-spring-esperando-la.html' title='Waiting for Spring / Esperando la primavera'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S-cw3Kk6JNI/AAAAAAAABRw/Nege3vYFm0o/s72-c/IMG_6332.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2780455857057285426</id><published>2010-03-07T14:51:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T15:34:27.494-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dinner at the train / Cena en el tren</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qcpz1BFFI/AAAAAAAABQ4/wqgjM78krBM/s1600-h/IMG_5801.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qcpz1BFFI/AAAAAAAABQ4/wqgjM78krBM/s400/IMG_5801.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;In the highway to San Miguel there is an Spanish restaurant that we like visiting, "El Asador Catalán". We like their food as the owner is from Barcelona and the menu is full of Catalan dishes that we tried during our honeymoon in Barcelona. This time we found out that the restaurant is expanding but the expansion is not conventional. The owner has bought old train cars, adapted them and uses them as part of the restaurant. We decided trying eating there and had a&amp;nbsp;very nice&amp;nbsp;experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;En la carretera a San Miguel hay un restaurante español que nos gusta visitar, "El Asador Catalán". Nos gusta su comida ya que el dueño es de Barcelona y su menú está lleno de platillos catalanes que probamos durante nuestra luna de miel en Barcelona. Esta vez nos encontramos con que el restaurante está creciendo, pero la expansión no es convencional. El dueño compró viejos carros de tren, los acondicionó y los utiliza como parte del restaurante. Decidimos comer ahí y fué una experiencia padrísima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QcmnWnZRI/AAAAAAAABQw/f-0U2JXgb1s/s1600-h/IMG_5807.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QcmnWnZRI/AAAAAAAABQw/f-0U2JXgb1s/s400/IMG_5807.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We were the only "passengers", had the train for ourselves!&amp;nbsp;/ &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Éramos los únicos "pasajeros", ¡todo el tren para nosotros!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QdU8WkgcI/AAAAAAAABRg/yug5Ww9uMxo/s1600-h/IMG_5810.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QdU8WkgcI/AAAAAAAABRg/yug5Ww9uMxo/s400/IMG_5810.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cheers! / ¡Salud!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QctjTITII/AAAAAAAABRA/Ll7HQoruu6k/s1600-h/IMG_5811.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QctjTITII/AAAAAAAABRA/Ll7HQoruu6k/s400/IMG_5811.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We ordered seafood paella and black paella, yumm!/ &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Ordenamos paella de mariscos y paella negra ¡mmh!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qc5RHmkgI/AAAAAAAABRY/BW883GvWodE/s1600-h/IMG_5828.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qc5RHmkgI/AAAAAAAABRY/BW883GvWodE/s400/IMG_5828.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Catalan version of créme brulée &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;/ La versión Catalana de la crema quemada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qc22HDQRI/AAAAAAAABRQ/SKE3BtyU_CI/s1600-h/IMG_5827.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qc22HDQRI/AAAAAAAABRQ/SKE3BtyU_CI/s400/IMG_5827.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Caboose / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;El Cabús&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QcwdvWCsI/AAAAAAAABRI/u0v6_OyB3rU/s1600-h/IMG_5822.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QcwdvWCsI/AAAAAAAABRI/u0v6_OyB3rU/s400/IMG_5822.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Papito and Mamita were dancing after dinner / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Papito y mamita baliaron después de la cena&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2780455857057285426?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2780455857057285426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2780455857057285426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2780455857057285426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2780455857057285426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/03/dinner-at-train-cena-en-el-tren.html' title='Dinner at the train / Cena en el tren'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5Qcpz1BFFI/AAAAAAAABQ4/wqgjM78krBM/s72-c/IMG_5801.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1271166372754542576</id><published>2010-03-07T14:18:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T14:27:17.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>San Miguel de Allende</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDh-pPm0I/AAAAAAAABQg/Vm1ECTmTLUI/s1600-h/IMG_5791.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDh-pPm0I/AAAAAAAABQg/Vm1ECTmTLUI/s400/IMG_5791.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;After coming back to Tequisquiapan from our trip to the South, we spent a week visiting local places such as San Miguel de Allende, (in the State of Guanajuato) a colonial city which name means "Saint Michael of Allende" now dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and the Mexican independence hero Ignacio Allende, native of Saint Michael.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Cuando regresamos a Tequisquiapan de nuestro viaje al sur, pasamos una semana visitando lugares cercanos, como San Miguel De Allende (en el Estado de Guanajuato) una ciudad colonial ahora dedicada a San Miguel Arcángel y al héroe de la independencia Ignacio Allende, nativo de San Miguel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QHT0EQ92I/AAAAAAAABQo/SOwOunZDc7I/s1600-h/IMG_5756.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QHT0EQ92I/AAAAAAAABQo/SOwOunZDc7I/s400/IMG_5756.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, buiilt in 1564 / &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel, construída en 1564&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;San Miguel de Allende is one of Mexico's top 10 tourist destination, receiving over 100,000 tourist per year and having the largest population of Americans in the country (more than 10% of the population are American or Canadian, with some Europeans as well). In 1926 it was declared a national monument, so no neon signs or modern buildings are allowed. This place is famous for its mild climate, colonial architecture and convenient facilities for foreigners such a public library with the second largest collection of English language books in Mexico; a large volunteer community; a very active theatre community, etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: purple;"&gt;San Miguel de Allende es uno de los 10 lugares turísticos más visitados en México, recibiendo más de 100,000 turistas por año y con la población de Estadounidenses más grande del país (más del 10% de la población son Estadounidenses o Canadienses y algunos Europeos). En 1926 fué declarado monumento nacional así que no hay anuncios grandes ni edificios modernos. este lugar es famoso por su clima templado, arquitectura colonial y sitios convenientes para los visitantes tales como una biblioteca pública con la segunda colección más grande de libros en inglés en México, una comunidad de voluntarios muy grande y activa; una comunidad teatral importante y activa, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDSwiZkOI/AAAAAAAABQI/ZRLKj6uQqkY/s1600-h/IMG_5755.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDSwiZkOI/AAAAAAAABQI/ZRLKj6uQqkY/s400/IMG_5755.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We visit this city every time we go to Mexico. We love the sweet bread from a very good bakery located few steps from the church. We also visit the market and buy hand crafts. There is a beautiful store dedicated to angels called "The house of the archangels" where we always buy a figurine of Saint Michaels to bring to our friends in Calgary as our parish is dedicated to Saint Michael.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Cada vez que viajamos a México visitamos esta ciudad. Nos encanta el pan dulce de una panadería buenísima que se encuentra a unos pasos de la iglesia. También visitamos el mercado y compramos artesanías. Hay una tienda muy bonita dedicada a los ángeles que se llama "La casa de los arcángeles" donde siempre compramos figuras de San Miguel para nuestros amigos en Calgary ya que nuestra parroquia en Calgary está dedicada a San Miguel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDE04YkwI/AAAAAAAABP4/nG_nPYR49cw/s1600-h/IMG_5744.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDE04YkwI/AAAAAAAABP4/nG_nPYR49cw/s400/IMG_5744.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDLD1zWiI/AAAAAAAABQA/xS-fO1LkD2Q/s1600-h/IMG_5750.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDLD1zWiI/AAAAAAAABQA/xS-fO1LkD2Q/s400/IMG_5750.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDYHGyn1I/AAAAAAAABQQ/aOomOXAGcTk/s1600-h/IMG_5772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDYHGyn1I/AAAAAAAABQQ/aOomOXAGcTk/s400/IMG_5772.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDbwhMmgI/AAAAAAAABQY/Vg99oa26vLg/s1600-h/IMG_5782.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDbwhMmgI/AAAAAAAABQY/Vg99oa26vLg/s400/IMG_5782.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1271166372754542576?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1271166372754542576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1271166372754542576' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1271166372754542576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1271166372754542576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/03/san-miguel-de-allende.html' title='San Miguel de Allende'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S5QDh-pPm0I/AAAAAAAABQg/Vm1ECTmTLUI/s72-c/IMG_5791.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-4704278535442185669</id><published>2010-02-21T14:13:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T11:45:51.192-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The drive back / El camino de regreso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjlrHcF0I/AAAAAAAABPo/qu3ZrqfDgM0/s1600-h/IMG_5607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440809692464682818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjlrHcF0I/AAAAAAAABPo/qu3ZrqfDgM0/s400/IMG_5607.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After visiting the beautiful State of Tabasco for several days, we had to say bye to our dear family and leave the exotic, green and warm place. We drove over 1,000 km back to Tequisquiapan in two segments, stopping in Xalapa for a night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después de visitar el hermoso Estado de Tabasco por varios días, tuvimos que decir adiós a nuestra querida familia y dejar ese lugar calientito, verde y exótico. Manejamos los más de 1,000 kilómetros de regreso a Tequisquiapan en dos segmentos, parando en Xalapa por una noche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440809701116031090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjmLWFMHI/AAAAAAAABPw/X0x8FyLLXUs/s400/IMG_5604.JPG" border="0" /&gt;The drive was nice and we had the opportunity to appreciate the different vegetation as we drove away from the coast. We were also able to enjoy the food at La Parroquia in Xalapa again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El camino estuvo agradable, y tuvimos la oportunidad de apreciar los cambios en la vegetación mientras nos alejábamos de la costa. También pudimos disfrutar de nuevo la comida en la Parroquia de Xalapa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjlN8seKI/AAAAAAAABPg/vE8ceJo1zQU/s1600-h/IMG_5617.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440809684634990754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjlN8seKI/AAAAAAAABPg/vE8ceJo1zQU/s400/IMG_5617.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Sugar cane fields, the crops were flowering /&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt; Campos de caña, floreando&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GigCK0cLI/AAAAAAAABPY/xiJUwKIus8A/s1600-h/IMG_5673.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440808496062034098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GigCK0cLI/AAAAAAAABPY/xiJUwKIus8A/s400/IMG_5673.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Cactus fields / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Campos de cactáceas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4Gifi_QMNI/AAAAAAAABPQ/MXNhLSdphb0/s1600-h/IMG_5679.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440808487692021970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4Gifi_QMNI/AAAAAAAABPQ/MXNhLSdphb0/s400/IMG_5679.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The highway to Xalapa / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La autopista a Xalapa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GifS0bvII/AAAAAAAABPI/s66C3jAJpkg/s1600-h/IMG_5654.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440808483351673986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GifS0bvII/AAAAAAAABPI/s66C3jAJpkg/s400/IMG_5654.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4Gie9s-fsI/AAAAAAAABPA/YgWwbnrMmAk/s1600-h/IMG_5652.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440808477683252930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4Gie9s-fsI/AAAAAAAABPA/YgWwbnrMmAk/s400/IMG_5652.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GieRCFq0I/AAAAAAAABO4/GtzAastBsZc/s1600-h/IMG_5648.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440808465692207938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GieRCFq0I/AAAAAAAABO4/GtzAastBsZc/s400/IMG_5648.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4704278535442185669?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4704278535442185669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4704278535442185669' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4704278535442185669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4704278535442185669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/drive-back-el-camino-de-regreso.html' title='The drive back / El camino de regreso'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GjlrHcF0I/AAAAAAAABPo/qu3ZrqfDgM0/s72-c/IMG_5607.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2968990575469997233</id><published>2010-02-21T13:36:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T14:54:27.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The house of the Governor / La casa del Gobernador</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800551618901250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbRmz-dQI/AAAAAAAABOI/mdWMV-1VFuA/s400/IMG_5454.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Known as the "Quinta Grijalva", the house of the Governor of Tabasco, used as a refuge by more than a thousand people during the flood of 2007; is a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful gardens, fruit trees and palm trees, opens to the public during the Christmas season and a fair known as the "Chocofeller" takes place in the gardens and extends to the park outside of the house. Here we have to indicate that "Chocofeller" is a name that combines the words "chocolate" with "Rockefeller" . Chocolate because Tabasco is the main producer and the birthplace of cacao (cocoa), and Rockefeller because of the Christmas lights and decorations that try to imitate those of the Rockefeller Centre in New York, Mexican style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Conocida como la "Quinta Grijalva", la casa del Gobernador de Tabaso, usada como albergue por más de mil tabasqueños durante la inundación del 2007; es una bella residencia rodeada por hermosos jardines, palmeras y árboles frutales y abre al público durante la temporada navideña y una feria conocida como la "Chocofeller" se realiza en los jardines y se extiende al parque localizado fuera de la casa. Aquí hacemos la aclaración de que "Chocofeller" es un nombre que combina las palabras "chocolate" y "Rockefeller". Chocolate porque Tabasco es el productor principal y el lugar de origen del cacao, y Rockefeller porque las luces navideñas traen a la memoria las del centro Rockefeller en Nueva York, estilo mexicano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800572364460130" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbS0GGkGI/AAAAAAAABOY/uzzsUMV1KuM/s400/IMG_5461.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We visited this historical place, attracted by the Christmas decorations that included a huge moving nativity and many moving characters from Walt Disney and popular cartoons, including Santa Claus. The first stop was at the line-up for security checks (carried on by armed soldiers), papito was carrying a knife and the soldiers found it, so they took it and to our surprise, we recovered it when we left the complex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Visitamos este lugar histórico, atraídos por las decoraciones navideñas que incluyeron un enorme nacimiento que se movía y muchos personajes de Walt Disney y otras caricaturas populares, incluyendo Santa Claus. La primera parada fué en la fila para pasar por la revisión de seguridad (llevadas a cabo por soldados armados); papito llevaba una navaja , los soldados la encontraron y la confiscaron, pero pudimos recuperarla a la salida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800965025711122" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4Gbpq31xBI/AAAAAAAABOw/8t9ZswYzjgk/s400/DSC01181.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800584765352770" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbTiStK0I/AAAAAAAABOo/FHbd98--dCw/s400/IMG_5458.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800577009045906" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbTFZdUZI/AAAAAAAABOg/ghiguJMYP_A/s400/IMG_5457.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbSKNZNgI/AAAAAAAABOQ/2kOzVXTLxCA/s1600-h/IMG_5594.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440800561120753154" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbSKNZNgI/AAAAAAAABOQ/2kOzVXTLxCA/s400/IMG_5594.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440799332963164866" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaKq9zosI/AAAAAAAABNg/q_BeJO-YRN8/s400/IMG_5580.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inside of the complex, an outdoors movie was being projected and there was a line-up to enter the house; when we entered we were not interested on the house and furniture, but on the nativity scene that we were told was amazing. Amazing indeed, with more than 4,000 pieces representing biblical scenes, such as the people of Israel worshiping a golden calf, the building of the pyramids in Egypt by the Israeli slaves, the last supper, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, etc. Not only the nativity but the whole life of Jesus was represented with small pieces collected by the family of the current Governor, Andrés Granier. That was the highlight of our visit there. After leaving the house, pop was offered to all visitors and each child received a chocolate bar made in Tabasco (we were given 3 chocolate bars when we told them we were visitors from Canada).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Dentro de la propiedad, una película estaba siendo proyectada al aire libre y había una fila para entrar la casa; cuando entramos no nos interesaba la casa o los muebles sino el nacimiento que nos habían contado era increíble. Y sí lo fué, con más de 4,000 piezas representando escenas bíblicas, tales como el pueblo de Israel adorando un becerro de oro, la construcción de las pirámides de Egipto por los esclavos israelíes, la última cena, la crucifixión y resurrección de Jesucristo, etc. No solo el nacimiento sino toda la vida de Jesús estuvo representada con pequeñas figuritas coleccionadas por la familia del actual Gobernador, Andrés Granier. Esa fué la mejor parte de nuestra visita a esta famosa quinta. Después de salir de la casa, a todos los visitantes se les ofrecía un vaso de refresco, y cada niño o niña recibía una barra de chocolate hecha en Tabasco (a nosotros nos dieron 3 barras de chocolate cuando les dijimos que veníamos de Canadá). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaMll379I/AAAAAAAABOA/X3dQTkz2FGI/s1600-h/IMG_5590.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440799365880344530" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaMll379I/AAAAAAAABOA/X3dQTkz2FGI/s400/IMG_5590.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Scene of the Last Supper / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Escena de la última cena&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440799359890474242" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaMPRxxQI/AAAAAAAABN4/IVGZFXgGxRM/s400/IMG_5589.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Scene of Lazarus' resurrection / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Escena de la resurrección de Lázaro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440799349700916786" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaLpUZdjI/AAAAAAAABNw/06v51SfLtAQ/s400/IMG_5583.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440799339266868034" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GaLCcug0I/AAAAAAAABNo/Zb25jqlGm-A/s400/IMG_5581.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2968990575469997233?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2968990575469997233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2968990575469997233' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2968990575469997233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2968990575469997233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/house-of-governor-la-casa-del.html' title='The house of the Governor / La casa del Gobernador'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S4GbRmz-dQI/AAAAAAAABOI/mdWMV-1VFuA/s72-c/IMG_5454.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7070560088087128691</id><published>2010-02-14T11:48:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-29T12:46:44.309-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year's at the beach / Año nuevo en la playa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMvfLjd1I/AAAAAAAABNY/K7j2Go4B1rE/s1600-h/IMG_5571.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438180928757397330" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMvfLjd1I/AAAAAAAABNY/K7j2Go4B1rE/s400/IMG_5571.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were invited to the beach on New Year's day. Our cousin Tita and her husband Regino, with their children Rogelio, Alejandro, and Beto took us to their place by the beach (45 minutes drive from Villahermosa). We brought along the leftovers from the New Year's eve dinner and spent a relaxing beautiful day with our papitos, Dea, Carlos, Bella, Lumi, and Tita's family, drinking coconut juice and eating great food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;En el primer día del año, fuimos invitados a ir a la playa. Nuestra prima Tita y su esposo Regino, con sus hijos Rogelio, Alejandro y Beto, nos llevaron a su propiedad en la playa (a 45 minutos de Villahermosa). Llevamos lo que quedó de la cena para el recalentado y pasamos un día precioso, relajándonos en la playa con Lumi, nuestros papitos, Dea, Carlos, Bella, Lumi&amp;nbsp;y la familia de Tita y Regino, tomando agua de coco y comiendo comida deliciosa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438176631450424642" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI1Wdu1UI/AAAAAAAABLw/XuVaOKrEpkA/s400/DSC01225.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438180903174345618" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMt_4FE5I/AAAAAAAABNA/WKJsLddFY-k/s400/IMG_5573.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438177920358548402" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hKAYBYA7I/AAAAAAAABMw/NUFzcNP97NU/s400/IMG_5548.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438177911332427186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hJ_2ZYVbI/AAAAAAAABMo/_zLVEjjHk3k/s400/IMG_5544.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438177908181577074" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hJ_qqKLXI/AAAAAAAABMg/xXW2HpbQoZU/s400/IMG_5522.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438177898244714162" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hJ_FpBrrI/AAAAAAAABMY/M_GUuHfgxA0/s400/IMG_5518.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Tita, mamita &amp;amp; Lumi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438176679732529106" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI4KVFR9I/AAAAAAAABMQ/R0LG8PVEwDQ/s400/DSC01231.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI3FjkTQI/AAAAAAAABMI/m9K7LiiKyNg/s1600-h/DSC01237.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438176661271235842" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI3FjkTQI/AAAAAAAABMI/m9K7LiiKyNg/s400/DSC01237.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Paul, learning to open coconuts after drinking the juice / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Paul aprendiendo a abrir los cocos después de tomarse el agua.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI2h374TI/AAAAAAAABMA/ZYhwrypExVk/s1600-h/DSC01232.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438176651692990770" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI2h374TI/AAAAAAAABMA/ZYhwrypExVk/s400/DSC01232.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI17nu2fI/AAAAAAAABL4/i12SljYpy_w/s1600-h/DSC01227.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438176641424480754" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hI17nu2fI/AAAAAAAABL4/i12SljYpy_w/s400/DSC01227.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Papito, mamita, Tita, Lumi, Alejandro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438180909637017378" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMuX85nyI/AAAAAAAABNI/YiGs2ltK-TQ/s400/IMG_5567.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Time to rinse all the sand / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Hora de enjuagar la arena&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438180917493730530" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMu1OFjOI/AAAAAAAABNQ/aPLoRX1yp4s/s400/IMG_5572.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Beto &amp;amp; Bella, not very happy to go back to the City / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Beto &amp;amp; Bella, no my convencidos de regresar a la ciudad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438177934965196322" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hKBOb3xiI/AAAAAAAABM4/QbP9lHIRLY0/s400/IMG_5565.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;We are now ready to go back to the beach / &lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Ya estamos listos para volver a la playa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7070560088087128691?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7070560088087128691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7070560088087128691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7070560088087128691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7070560088087128691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-years-at-beach-ano-nuevo-en-la.html' title='New Year&apos;s at the beach / Año nuevo en la playa'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hMvfLjd1I/AAAAAAAABNY/K7j2Go4B1rE/s72-c/IMG_5571.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-6583618654331927689</id><published>2010-02-14T10:56:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-14T11:47:41.594-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year's Eve/ Noche de Año Nuevo</title><content type='html'>Catalina's family and most families in Mexico celebrate New Year's Eve similarly to Chirstmas Eve, with a big family reunion, turkey, etc. The fireworks are a big part of the celebration as well. We ate delicious food and share with family members that Catalina had not seen for several years and Paul didn't even know many of them. It was a memorable reunion for all the family and we are thankful with everybody and with God for the gift of a united, loving family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La familia de Catalina, como la mayoría de las familias en México, celebran el Año Nuevo de manera similar a la Noche Buena, con una reunión familiar, pavo, etc. Los cuetes y fuegos artificiales son una parte importante de la celebración. Comimos deliciosos platillos y celebramos con familiares que Catalina no había visto durante varios años y Paul no conocía a muchos de ellos. Fué una reunión memorable para toda la familia y estamos muy agradecidos con todos y con Dios por el don de una familia unida y amorosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgyP3HJI/AAAAAAAABLo/pcDnJvX3u0E/s1600-h/DSC01214.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438167482038164626" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgyP3HJI/AAAAAAAABLo/pcDnJvX3u0E/s400/DSC01214.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Mamita, happy to be with all the family / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mamita, felíz de estar con toda la familia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgo66pgI/AAAAAAAABLg/DNeshCApP9U/s1600-h/DSC01208.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438167479534396930" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgo66pgI/AAAAAAAABLg/DNeshCApP9U/s400/DSC01208.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Part of the beautiful group that celebrated together / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Parte del grupo que celebramos juntos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438167460165112578" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAfgw60wI/AAAAAAAABLQ/F5Q49J4BKmM/s400/DSC01206.JPG" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lumi, always beautiful / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Lumi, siempre hermosa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_uq68b1I/AAAAAAAABLA/rLnAWvv2_FU/s1600-h/IMG_0164.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438166621077925714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_uq68b1I/AAAAAAAABLA/rLnAWvv2_FU/s400/IMG_0164.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Jorge &amp;amp; Dea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_uHQV8kI/AAAAAAAABK4/7mdXfnhqryI/s1600-h/IMG_0161.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438166611504001602" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_uHQV8kI/AAAAAAAABK4/7mdXfnhqryI/s400/IMG_0161.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Alejandro, Bella, Carlos, Mario &amp;amp; Beto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_t5kINuI/AAAAAAAABKw/DB9W5itHPdc/s1600-h/IMG_0158.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438166607828891362" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_t5kINuI/AAAAAAAABKw/DB9W5itHPdc/s400/IMG_0158.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aunt Angelica, Bella, mamita, Dea &amp;amp; Uncle Roberto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g-_tPjsVI/AAAAAAAABKo/5OjDIRZ-I-c/s1600-h/IMG_5504.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438165814247403858" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g-_tPjsVI/AAAAAAAABKo/5OjDIRZ-I-c/s400/IMG_5504.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lumi, Elizabeth &amp;amp; Uncle Roberto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g-_LMQWoI/AAAAAAAABKg/dyX7uGSyFI8/s1600-h/IMG_5500.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438165805106748034" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g-_LMQWoI/AAAAAAAABKg/dyX7uGSyFI8/s400/IMG_5500.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Alejandro, Tita &amp;amp; Paul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g--7mwdOI/AAAAAAAABKY/V2f6SQjxIoc/s1600-h/IMG_5493.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438165800922936546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g--7mwdOI/AAAAAAAABKY/V2f6SQjxIoc/s400/IMG_5493.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Uncle Miguel (mamita's brother) and Pedro (Lumi's husband)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438167471045329346" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgJS9wcI/AAAAAAAABLY/3Alu7IY04kA/s400/DSC01207.JPG" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The group / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El grupo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g--d3z2DI/AAAAAAAABKQ/DFBCN1EE_qo/s1600-h/IMG_5492.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438165792941398066" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g--d3z2DI/AAAAAAAABKQ/DFBCN1EE_qo/s400/IMG_5492.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Our papitos / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Nuestros papitos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438166633570279666" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g_vZdWoPI/AAAAAAAABLI/PhNkXP-qE3Y/s400/IMG_0169.JPG" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Happy to be here / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Felíz de estar aquí&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-6583618654331927689?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/6583618654331927689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=6583618654331927689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6583618654331927689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6583618654331927689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-years-eve-noche-de-ano-nuevo.html' title='New Year&apos;s Eve/ Noche de Año Nuevo'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3hAgyP3HJI/AAAAAAAABLo/pcDnJvX3u0E/s72-c/DSC01214.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7230359637508159400</id><published>2010-02-14T10:38:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T11:56:30.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Alligator / Lagarto</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g19Uriv7I/AAAAAAAABKI/xTV2AAHwv4g/s1600-h/DSC01186.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438155877689507762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g19Uriv7I/AAAAAAAABKI/xTV2AAHwv4g/s400/DSC01186.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;During our visit to Villahermosa we went for a walk on the afternoon of New Year's eve with our cousin Tita and her children. We visited a lake in the middle of the City at a residential area. As we were going to take the stairs to a lookout, we noticed an alligator standing just by the stairs. Needless to say we didn't go to the lookout. Tita told us that the dogs and other pets from the people that leave around that lake often go missing. Oops!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Durante nuestra visita a Villahermosa, fuimos a caminar la tarde de año nuevo con nuestra prima Tita y sus hijos. Visitamos un lago en un área residencial de la ciudad. Cuando íbamos a subir unas escaleras para ir a un mirador, vimos un lagarto parado cerca de las escaleras. No hace falta decir que no fuimos al mirador. Tita nos dijo que la gente que vive alrededor de este lago pierden sus perros y otras mascotas frecuentemente. Oops! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g18-HPb_I/AAAAAAAABKA/MKK6k24N8_4/s1600-h/IMG_5489.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438155871631667186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g18-HPb_I/AAAAAAAABKA/MKK6k24N8_4/s400/IMG_5489.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7230359637508159400?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7230359637508159400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7230359637508159400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7230359637508159400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7230359637508159400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/aligator-lagarto.html' title='Alligator / Lagarto'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S3g19Uriv7I/AAAAAAAABKI/xTV2AAHwv4g/s72-c/DSC01186.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5400989409141424941</id><published>2010-02-07T15:02:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T15:12:20.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fishgator / Pejelagarto</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285YSRMMXI/AAAAAAAABJ4/F538_RuuGds/s1600-h/DSC01154.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435626364643062130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285YSRMMXI/AAAAAAAABJ4/F538_RuuGds/s400/DSC01154.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pejelagarto (translated to something like "fishgator" but known in English as gar fish) is a very common fish in Tabasco, the only place where this fish can be found. This fish has a long face, with long and sharp teeth, similar to those of the alligators, but the rest of the body looks like a fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El pejelagarto es un pez muy común en Tabasco, el único lugar donde este pez se puede encontrar. Este pez tiene una cara larga, con dientes largos y afilados, similares a los de un lagarto, pero el resto del cuerpo se parece al cuerpo de cualquier otro pez.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435626344238940130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285XGQd_-I/AAAAAAAABJg/LwVIMgs6jjI/s400/IMG_5468.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;The pejelagarto is a symbol of Tabasco, where people eat them in different ways. We were able to see them alive at the Yumká park, where Carlos also ate one. When we visited the market we saw lots of them, being sold raw or cooked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El pejelagarto es un símbolo de Tabasco. donde la gente lo come en diferentes formas. Durante nuestra visita, pudimos verlo vivo en el parque Yumká, donde Carlos también se comió uno. Cuando visitamos el mercado vimos muchos de ellos, que se venden crudos o cocidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285YHBLc-I/AAAAAAAABJw/RU_ruovrZ8Y/s1600-h/IMG_0138.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435626361623114722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285YHBLc-I/AAAAAAAABJw/RU_ruovrZ8Y/s400/IMG_0138.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285XlViiBI/AAAAAAAABJo/q9ijDCfnkps/s1600-h/DSC01175.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435626352581707794" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285XlViiBI/AAAAAAAABJo/q9ijDCfnkps/s400/DSC01175.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5400989409141424941?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5400989409141424941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5400989409141424941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5400989409141424941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5400989409141424941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/fishgator-pejelagarto.html' title='Fishgator / Pejelagarto'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S285YSRMMXI/AAAAAAAABJ4/F538_RuuGds/s72-c/DSC01154.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5622189599011617833</id><published>2010-02-07T12:41:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T14:46:07.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yumká</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28szev2SiI/AAAAAAAABJQ/Bf6s0PH1vDw/s1600-h/IMG_5435.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435612538198182434" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28szev2SiI/AAAAAAAABJQ/Bf6s0PH1vDw/s400/IMG_5435.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After visiting La Venta park, we visited the Yumká park, located 17 km from Villaherrmosa. The Kumká is basically a zoo where the animals run semi-free in a 101 hectares divided into several ecosystems, including an African savannah, local jungle, serpent region, bird area, manatee lagoon, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después de visitar el parque de la Venta, visitamos el parque Yumká, que se localiza a 17 km de Villahermosa. Este parque es básicamente un zoológico donde los animales viven en estado semi-libre en 101 hectáreas divididas en varios ecosistemas, incluyendo la sabana africana, la selva, serpentario, apiario, laguna de manatíes, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once entering the park, the first thing to do is to walk through the jungle where a guide describes the animals and exotic plants, the importance and the equilibrium of the jungle. Jaguars and tigers can be observed (thankfully in their cages).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Una vez entrando el parque, lo primero es caminar en la selva, donde un guía describe a los animales y plantas exóticas, la importancia y el equilibrio de la selva. Jaguares y tigres pueden admirarse (afortunadamente, en sus celdas).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28sy8JifkI/AAAAAAAABJI/RrTVhv6vSCM/s1600-h/IMG_5373.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435612528910696002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28sy8JifkI/AAAAAAAABJI/RrTVhv6vSCM/s400/IMG_5373.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A suspended bridge allows visitors to cross above a lagoon populated with fish and alligators, several large iguanas can also be observed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Un puente colgante permite a los visitantes cruzar arriba de una laguna poblada con peces y lagartos, algunas grandes iguanas también pueden observarse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r4uujIeI/AAAAAAAABJA/TI02GAod484/s1600-h/IMG_5375.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435611528875418082" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r4uujIeI/AAAAAAAABJA/TI02GAod484/s400/IMG_5375.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r4WbOLcI/AAAAAAAABI4/RiAzyWNgXZI/s1600-h/IMG_5381.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435611522351902146" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r4WbOLcI/AAAAAAAABI4/RiAzyWNgXZI/s400/IMG_5381.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r310hj1I/AAAAAAAABIw/qbR7Lr6Oq-I/s1600-h/IMG_5379.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435611513599659858" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28r310hj1I/AAAAAAAABIw/qbR7Lr6Oq-I/s400/IMG_5379.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Then, an open local railway-type vehicle takes visitors through the savannah region, where elephants, zebras, giraffes, rhinoceros, deer and other animals run free enjoying the beautiful place. A giraffe walked less than two meters from our vehicle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después, un vehículo abierto tipo tren lleva a los visitantes a través de la región de la sabana, donde elefantes, cebras, jirafas, rinocerontes, venados y otros animales corren libres disfrutando el hermoso lugar. Una jirafa pasó a menos de dos metros de nuestro vehículo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435609912874722242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qaqp9Y8I/AAAAAAAABIY/VX5kPQrBSPw/s400/IMG_0127.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28rSbn2o-I/AAAAAAAABIo/Rc4Z7oIQxu4/s1600-h/IMG_5421.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435610870912033762" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28rSbn2o-I/AAAAAAAABIo/Rc4Z7oIQxu4/s400/IMG_5421.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435610398689300002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28q28dLjiI/AAAAAAAABIg/Dp4KOVFao0w/s400/DSC01167.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vehicle drops the visitors at the interpretive centre, where the hippopotamus can be observed, close to the aviary and herpetarium (snakes sections). A restaurant that serves local food is in that area too; we ate surrounded by ducks, swans, peacocks, and iguanas. Catalina could not resist taking the following picture and Carlos followed her. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El vehículo deja a los visitantes en el centro donde puede observarse a los hipopótamos, cerca del aviario y serpentario. Un restaurante que sirve comida local también se encuentra en esa área; comimos rodeados de patos, cisnes, pavos reales, e iguanas. Catalina no pudo resistir tomarse la siguiente foto, y Carlos hizo lo mismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qaadt8NI/AAAAAAAABIQ/UF8_IJzoTHs/s1600-h/IMG_5402.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435609908528410834" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qaadt8NI/AAAAAAAABIQ/UF8_IJzoTHs/s400/IMG_5402.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZ6mrfyI/AAAAAAAABII/BzetfZeJYvg/s1600-h/IMG_0142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435609899976064802" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZ6mrfyI/AAAAAAAABII/BzetfZeJYvg/s400/IMG_0142.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We spent a great day in Yumká, a place like no other, with wonderful weather, amazing animals and good food, all at a very good price (the entrance fee to the park is less than 5 dollars per adult and about 2 dollars per child or older adult). We enjoyed being there with our family and our new friend Jorge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Pasamos un hermoso día en el Yumká, un lugar como ningún otro, con hermoso clima, animales increíbles y comida rica, todo a un muy buen precio (la entrada al parque cuesta menos de 5 dólares por adulto y alrededor de 2 dólares por niño o adulto mayor). Disfrutamos la visita al lugar con la familia y con nuestro nuevo amigo Jorge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435619012715988114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28ysWNLxJI/AAAAAAAABJY/jLVZap43I4Q/s400/IMG_0135.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZr44szI/AAAAAAAABIA/ymwC26TZmYg/s1600-h/IMG_0148.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435609896025895730" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZr44szI/AAAAAAAABIA/ymwC26TZmYg/s400/IMG_0148.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZKB6c6I/AAAAAAAABH4/P2mv8HwZbhA/s1600-h/IMG_0150.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435609886936953762" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28qZKB6c6I/AAAAAAAABH4/P2mv8HwZbhA/s400/IMG_0150.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5622189599011617833?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5622189599011617833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5622189599011617833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5622189599011617833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5622189599011617833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/yumka.html' title='Yumká'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S28szev2SiI/AAAAAAAABJQ/Bf6s0PH1vDw/s72-c/IMG_5435.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-6146546139400810756</id><published>2010-02-04T20:27:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-04T22:12:15.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Venta Park-Museum / Parque-Museo La Venta</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ6YMT1WI/AAAAAAAABHg/Tkipif5JRyc/s1600-h/IMG_5362.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434606603558180194" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ6YMT1WI/AAAAAAAABHg/Tkipif5JRyc/s400/IMG_5362.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The outdoor park-museum of La Venta is an eco-archaeological museum located in the City of Villahermosa, Capital of Tabasco. This beautiful park opened in 1958 and was designed by the local poet Carlos Pellicer when oil exploration threatened the very important Olmec site of La Venta (located around 130 km from Villahermosa). The site's most important pieces were relocated to this museum, including the famous colossal stone heads. Most of these pieces belong to the Olmec culture that flourished in the region between 1300 and 200 BC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El parque museo de la Venta es un parque eco-arqueológico localizado en la Ciudad de Villahermosa, capital del Estado de Tabasco. Este hermoso parque abrió en 1958, y fué diseñado por el poeta Carlos Pellicer cuando las exploraciones petroleras amenazaron al sitio Olmeca de La Venta (que se localiza a 130 km de Villahermosa, más o menos). Las piezas más importantes fueron reubicadas a este museo, incluyendo las famosísimas cabezas enormes de piedra. La mayoría de estas piezas pertenecen a la cultura Olmeca que floreció en la región entre los años 1300 y 200 A.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434606591394886082" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ5q4WscI/AAAAAAAABHQ/yDWGk4XwS84/s400/IMG_5338.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stone heads measure more than two meters tall and weigh more than 15 tons each, nobody has been able to figure out how the Olmecs were able to move the enormous rocks used as raw material from an area almost 100 kilometres away and then carve the heads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Las cabezas de piedra miden más de dos metros de altura y pesan más de 15 toneladas cada una. Nadie ha podido explicar cómo los Olmecas pudieron mover las enormes rocas usadas para hacer las cabezas desde un área localizada más de 100 kilómetros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434621388634302754" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2unW-5JqSI/AAAAAAAABHw/ZMasY2zAjc8/s400/IMG_0116.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ6MLwoxI/AAAAAAAABHY/NgHgoOG9GQo/s1600-h/IMG_5357.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434606600334648082" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ6MLwoxI/AAAAAAAABHY/NgHgoOG9GQo/s400/IMG_5357.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once entering the park, the first things to see are the animals located in a little zoo. These animals are native to the region (jaguars, ocelots, monkeys, alligators, toucans, etc). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Entrando al museo, lo primero que puede apreciarse son los animales que se localizan en un pequeño zoológico. Son animales nativos de la región (jaguares, ocelotes, monos, lagartos, tucanes, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ5GxOO1I/AAAAAAAABHI/5KlwajFxz0Q/s1600-h/DSC01147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434606581701294930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ5GxOO1I/AAAAAAAABHI/5KlwajFxz0Q/s400/DSC01147.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434605947207866834" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZULGM2dI/AAAAAAAABG4/RRxGoKq4di8/s400/IMG_0106.JPG" /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434605927416220034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZTBXgSYI/AAAAAAAABGw/oj6L6WNiuQU/s400/IMG_0099.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Native vegetation can also be enjoyed in this beautiful park; here Bella is showing the cacao fruit (chocolate is produced with the roasted beans). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La vegetación de la región también puede apreciarse en este hermoso parque. Aquí Bella nos muestra el cacao (el chocolate se produce con las semillas tostadas).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZUcmMWsI/AAAAAAAABHA/y7MYMvTPipI/s1600-h/IMG_0108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434605951905454786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZUcmMWsI/AAAAAAAABHA/y7MYMvTPipI/s400/IMG_0108.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We were very happy to visit such an important museum and enjoyed our visit with Lumi, our personal guide. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Nos encantó visitar este museo tan importante, y disfrutamos mucho el paseo con Lumi,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;nuestra guía personal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434621049958620338" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2unDROk3LI/AAAAAAAABHo/MQkNkFArzfU/s400/IMG_0101.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-6146546139400810756?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/6146546139400810756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=6146546139400810756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6146546139400810756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6146546139400810756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/la-venta-park-museum-parque-museo-la.html' title='La Venta Park-Museum / Parque-Museo La Venta'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2uZ6YMT1WI/AAAAAAAABHg/Tkipif5JRyc/s72-c/IMG_5362.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-4215053815954775303</id><published>2010-01-30T20:15:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T22:03:35.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Comalcalco, Tabasco</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2UMi-7bbGI/AAAAAAAABGo/U1yIpXP-YZg/s1600-h/IMG_5319.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432762320639716450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2UMi-7bbGI/AAAAAAAABGo/U1yIpXP-YZg/s400/IMG_5319.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Abut sixty kilometres northwest of Villahermosa, the Mayan Archaeological zone of Comalcalco can be found in the middle of the jungle and close to the city of Comalcalco. This is considered to be one of the westernmost Mayan settlements, constructed around 600 BC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;A unos sesenta kilómetros al noroeste de Villahermosa, se encuentra la zona arqueológica Maya de Comalcalco, en la mitad de la selva y cerca de la ciudad de Comalcalco. Es considerada una de los asentamientos Mayas más al oeste del país, construida alrededor del año 600 DC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432738215503269714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T2n4TDD1I/AAAAAAAABGQ/UIQdVc38J1Q/s400/DSC01109.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This archaeological site is notable because the buildings were made from clay bricks, held together with mortar made from oyster shells (gravel was not available at the time in that region).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este sitio arqueológico es notable porque las edificaciones fueron hechas con ladrillos de barro cocido, pegados con mortero hecho de conchas de mar (la grava no es típica de la región).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432738194406943810" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T2mptSrEI/AAAAAAAABF4/eFKC8A6gdn0/s400/IMG_5322.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;We visited Comalcalco on our second day in Tabasco, with papitos, Lumi, Ivana, Dea, Carlos, Bella, our new friend Jorge, and our nephew Alejandro, who was our first class guide. It was very nice visiting the jungle too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Visitamos Comalcalco durante nuestro segundo día en Tabasco con nuestros papitos, Lumi, Ivana, Dea, Carlos, Bella, nuestro nuevo amigo Jorge y nuestro sobrino Alejandro, quien fungió como guía de primera clase. Fué muy padre ver la selva también.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432760841561846722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2ULM47yM8I/AAAAAAAABGg/je9J1wzsYaI/s400/IMG_5309.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T2ngHUfvI/AAAAAAAABGI/RtxMtFJfb5U/s1600-h/DSC01108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432738209011629810" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T2ngHUfvI/AAAAAAAABGI/RtxMtFJfb5U/s400/DSC01108.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432738204542406530" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T2nPdxj4I/AAAAAAAABGA/YghdjiV6oJ4/s400/IMG_5313.JPG" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4215053815954775303?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4215053815954775303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4215053815954775303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4215053815954775303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4215053815954775303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/01/comalcalco-tabasco.html' title='Comalcalco, Tabasco'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2UMi-7bbGI/AAAAAAAABGo/U1yIpXP-YZg/s72-c/IMG_5319.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1479944769214904881</id><published>2010-01-30T19:28:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T20:14:41.245-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Family from Tabasco / Familia Tabasqueña</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432731414441915618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TwcAXqdOI/AAAAAAAABFg/bNPnqA4_dSY/s400/DSC01102.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were fortunate to visit Villahermosa, the capital of the State of Tabasco, where we have a lot of family (mamita's side of the family). We got to see many of them and spent great time visiting, eating, and just talking. They all were very welcoming and loving (from the youngest, little Ivana to the oldest, uncle Roberto) and we are thankful for all their love and all they did for us. Here are a few pictures of some of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Tuvimos la fortuna de visitar Villahermosa, la capital del Estado de Tabasco, donde tenemos mucha familia (del lado de mamita). Pudimos ver a varios de ellos y pasamos momentos muy bonitos paseando, comiendo y platicando. Ellos son muy cariñosos (desde la más pequeña, Ivana hasta el mayor, tío Roberto) y nos dieron la bienvenida tan dulcemente. Estamos muy agradecidos por su amor y por todo lo que nos dieron e hicieron por nosotros. Aquí hay algunas fotos de algunos de ellos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TwcV2OUpI/AAAAAAAABFo/MUhvQHKrNq8/s1600-h/IMG_0162.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432731420207239826" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TwcV2OUpI/AAAAAAAABFo/MUhvQHKrNq8/s400/IMG_0162.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mario, Bella, Beto &amp;amp; Carlos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tuy2_z7vI/AAAAAAAABFY/8jilq_2WX0Y/s1600-h/IMG_5576.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432729608039689970" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tuy2_z7vI/AAAAAAAABFY/8jilq_2WX0Y/s400/IMG_5576.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rogelio, Beto, Regino, Alejandro &amp;amp; Tita&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432735735156003234" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2T0XgSLUaI/AAAAAAAABFw/Slpx02DRq30/s400/IMG_5577.JPG" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Carlos &amp;amp; Uncle Roberto / Carlos y tío Roberto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuynAOYTI/AAAAAAAABFQ/FPX5zhLxtH0/s1600-h/IMG_5506.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432729603746455858" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuynAOYTI/AAAAAAAABFQ/FPX5zhLxtH0/s400/IMG_5506.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mamita, Mayi &amp;amp; Carmita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuyO13L0I/AAAAAAAABFI/NS3lApax170/s1600-h/IMG_5501.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432729597260541762" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuyO13L0I/AAAAAAAABFI/NS3lApax170/s400/IMG_5501.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dea, Mauri, Elizabeth, Karina &amp;amp; her boyfriend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tux1_0G0I/AAAAAAAABFA/TkCBIF0Bhng/s1600-h/IMG_5448.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432729590591396674" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tux1_0G0I/AAAAAAAABFA/TkCBIF0Bhng/s400/IMG_5448.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Papito &amp;amp; Pedro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuxWPyTWI/AAAAAAAABE4/oLzJKQesvAk/s1600-h/IMG_5330.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432729582068452706" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TuxWPyTWI/AAAAAAAABE4/oLzJKQesvAk/s400/IMG_5330.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Peter &amp;amp; Ivana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt-EMlZUI/AAAAAAAABEo/56drwAoeA_k/s1600-h/IMG_0170.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432728701049857346" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt-EMlZUI/AAAAAAAABEo/56drwAoeA_k/s400/IMG_0170.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Alejandra &amp;amp; Tita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt97yxbTI/AAAAAAAABEg/OKsm8qnsW_Q/s1600-h/IMG_0094.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432728698794110258" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt97yxbTI/AAAAAAAABEg/OKsm8qnsW_Q/s400/IMG_0094.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The loving grandma Lumi / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La amorosa abuela Lumi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt9VG0bLI/AAAAAAAABEY/GCsaYGtsadE/s1600-h/IMG_0097.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432728688409210034" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2Tt9VG0bLI/AAAAAAAABEY/GCsaYGtsadE/s400/IMG_0097.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Us with our uncle Roberto / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Con nuestro tío Roberto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1479944769214904881?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1479944769214904881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1479944769214904881' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1479944769214904881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1479944769214904881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/01/family-from-tabasco-familia-tabasquena.html' title='Family from Tabasco / Familia Tabasqueña'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S2TwcAXqdOI/AAAAAAAABFg/bNPnqA4_dSY/s72-c/DSC01102.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-3764803289934312354</id><published>2010-01-24T14:30:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T15:01:48.674-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Xalapa, Veracruz (again) / Xalapa Veracruz (de nuevo)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCipTf0EI/AAAAAAAABEQ/2ksj4MteeVc/s1600-h/IMG_5284.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430429151160946754" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCipTf0EI/AAAAAAAABEQ/2ksj4MteeVc/s400/IMG_5284.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This year we went to Mexico with plans to visit Tabasco, the state where mamita was born. So we brought Catalina's parents, Dea, Bella and Carlos and drove. Since the journey was long (over 1,000 km each way) we took it easy and stopped in Xalapa (both ways). We spent one day and two nights in Xalapa and visited our favourite places; the interactive museum for the kids, and La Parroquia cafe and Picrecha restaurant for all. It was a short but very nice visit. We just love Xalapa, with its green parks, humidity and beauty (besides the food).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este año fuimos a México con planes de visitar Tabasco, el estado donde mamita nació. Así que nos llevamos a los papás de Catalina, Dea, Bella y Carlos y manejamos. Debido a que la jornada es larga (más de 1,000 km de ida y otro tanto de regreso), paramos en Xalapa. Pasamos dos noches y un día en Xalapa y visitamos nuestros lugares favoritos; el Museo Interactivo para los niños y el café de la Parroquia y el restaurante Picrecha para todos. Fué una visita corta pero muy linda, simplemente nos encanta Xalapa, con su verdor, humedad y belleza (además de la comida).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCiP8YUrI/AAAAAAAABEI/3_zGsTeBGnM/s1600-h/IMG_0086.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430429144353100466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCiP8YUrI/AAAAAAAABEI/3_zGsTeBGnM/s400/IMG_0086.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCh3XavGI/AAAAAAAABEA/nboXHNNsiIU/s1600-h/DSC01078.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430429137755618402" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCh3XavGI/AAAAAAAABEA/nboXHNNsiIU/s400/DSC01078.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBu3lBp3I/AAAAAAAABD4/feLS7jV_2Kw/s1600-h/DSC01076.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430428261639366514" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBu3lBp3I/AAAAAAAABD4/feLS7jV_2Kw/s400/DSC01076.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBuf1d6KI/AAAAAAAABDw/i9MmVFivszU/s1600-h/DSC01075.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430428255265876130" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBuf1d6KI/AAAAAAAABDw/i9MmVFivszU/s400/DSC01075.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBuKtuXKI/AAAAAAAABDo/WAZ8sQEsuyU/s1600-h/IMG_5655.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430428249596255394" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBuKtuXKI/AAAAAAAABDo/WAZ8sQEsuyU/s400/IMG_5655.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBtpCFm-I/AAAAAAAABDg/eMqtc_Fu2wM/s1600-h/IMG_5651.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430428240554859490" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zBtpCFm-I/AAAAAAAABDg/eMqtc_Fu2wM/s400/IMG_5651.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-3764803289934312354?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/3764803289934312354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=3764803289934312354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3764803289934312354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3764803289934312354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/01/xalapa-veracruz-again-xalapa-veracruz.html' title='Xalapa, Veracruz (again) / Xalapa Veracruz (de nuevo)'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1zCipTf0EI/AAAAAAAABEQ/2ksj4MteeVc/s72-c/IMG_5284.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5670402703867809557</id><published>2010-01-24T12:59:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T14:28:20.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 2009 / Navidad 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yrHJhrrOI/AAAAAAAABDQ/50ZCMr_Z-lo/s1600-h/IMG_0037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430403390006602978" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yrHJhrrOI/AAAAAAAABDQ/50ZCMr_Z-lo/s400/IMG_0037.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This year was our turn to spend Christmas with Catalina's family, including this year Catalina's parents, sister, nephew and nice and some of the Bonillas; our aunt Guadalupe (papito's sister) and her boys Carlos (and Cecy), Douglas (and Nayeli) and Percy. In Mexico, the main Christmas celebration takes place in Christmas Eve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After eating mamita's delicious tamales for lunch and celebrating Douglas' birthday (December 24!), we went for a walk, played games and got ready for the evening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before dinner (at Dea's house), the children put together a gingerbread house (not a Mexican tradition but something we always bring with us because they enjoy it a lot).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este año era nuestro turno de pasar Navidad con la familia de Catalina, incluyendo este año a los papás de Catalina, su hermana, sobrinos y algunos de los Bonilla; nuestra tía Guadalupe (hermana de papito) y sus hijos Carlos (y Cecy), Douglas (y Nayeli) y Percy. En México la navidad se celebra en la Nochebuena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después de comer los deliciosos tamales de mamita al mediodía y celebrar el cumpleaños de Douglas (el 24 de Diciembre), salimos a caminar, jugamos juegos de mesa y nos preparamos para la noche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Antes de cenar (en la casa de Dea), los niños armaron una casita de jengibre (que no es una tradición mexicana pero cada vez la llevamos de Canadá porque los niños la disfrutan mucho).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430403376824030178" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yrGYatk-I/AAAAAAAABDA/nh4mRcgtmyk/s400/IMG_0048.JPG" /&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We also lit a fire in the backyard and enjoyed the Mexican winter weather.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;También encendimos una fogata y disfrutamos el clima invernal de México.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430402406024418002" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yqN36DEtI/AAAAAAAABC4/grH6vf5VyNI/s400/IMG_0053.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For dinner we enjoyed the traditional turkey, spaghetti, apple salad, and two soups, both spicy and delicious. We also had lots of fruit punch, that in Mexico is prepared by boiling several fruits (apple, guava, sugarcane, etc), cinnamon, and molasses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;En la cena disfrutamos el tradicional pavo, espagueti, ensalada de manzana y dos sopas, ambas picosas y deliciosas. También tomamos mucho ponche, que en México se prepara hirviendo varias frutas (manzana, guayaba, caña,  etc), canela, y piloncillo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430402399892093426" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yqNhD_OfI/AAAAAAAABCw/gVhLtt9Y04U/s400/IMG_0060.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After dinner we played our traditional gift game and had a piñata, that Carlitos broke very easily (next time we are covering his eyes).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después de cenar jugamos nuestro tradicional juego de los regalos y también tuvimos una piñata que Carlitos rompió muy fácilmente (la próxima vez le vendamos los ojos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430402389632489330" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yqM616F3I/AAAAAAAABCg/6DltfU_q20Y/s400/IMG_5260.JPG" /&gt;Everybody collected lots of candy / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Todos recogimos muchos dulces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430402393968099826" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yqNK_mQfI/AAAAAAAABCo/WQn1rM6CyIg/s400/IMG_0075.JPG" /&gt;Next day (Christmas day) we continued eating, we had a brunch in the backyard of Dea's house and enjoyed the leftovers from dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Al día siguiente (el día de Navidad) continuamos comiendo, organizamos un almuerzo en el jardín de la casa de Dea y disfrutamos el famoso recalentado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430402379376082834" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yqMUolv5I/AAAAAAAABCY/midOAdHVjK4/s400/IMG_5268.JPG" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5670402703867809557?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5670402703867809557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5670402703867809557' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5670402703867809557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5670402703867809557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/01/christmas-2009-navidad-2009.html' title='Christmas 2009 / Navidad 2009'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yrHJhrrOI/AAAAAAAABDQ/50ZCMr_Z-lo/s72-c/IMG_0037.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8231752478941915508</id><published>2010-01-24T11:56:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T11:07:46.595-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Our trip to Mexico / Nuestro viaje a México</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yYRFdhLpI/AAAAAAAABCQ/pBf7OGxraj0/s1600-h/DSC01142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430382669993160338" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yYRFdhLpI/AAAAAAAABCQ/pBf7OGxraj0/s400/DSC01142.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We came back from Mexico over a week ago, and had not been able to update our blog... until today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Regresamos de México hace más de una semana y no habíamos podido actualizar nuestro blog... hasta hoy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We spent three fabulous weeks in Mexico, visiting the beautiful states of Querétaro, Veracruz, and Tabasco, being the trip to Tabasco the highlight of the whole trip. Not only because Tabasco is a beautiful, exotic place, but mainly because we got to see family and they received us as royalty, treated us to amazing food and places, we really felt the love of our family. Thank you so much, Hidalgo, Oropeza, Eboli, Roca, and Bonilla families (and their combinations thereafter), you are amazing beautiful people! We hope to see you more often, under circumpstances like these, happiness and joy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc;"&gt;Pasamos tres semanas fabulosas en México, visitamos los hermosos estados de Querétaro, Veracruz y Tabasco, siendo el viaje a Tabasco la mejor parte de todo el viaje. No solo porque Tabasco es un lugar hermoso y exótico, pero sobre todo porque pudimos visitar familia y ellos nos recibieron como si fuéramos de la realeza, nos dieron deliciosa comida y nos llevaron a lugares preciosos. Relmente sentimos el amor de nuestra familia. ¡Muchas gracias, familias Hidalgo, Oropeza, Eboli, Roca, y Bonilla (y sus combinaciones)!, ustedes son gente hermosa e increíble. ¡Les amamos mucho y esperamos poderlos ver más seguido en estas circunstancias de dicha!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8231752478941915508?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8231752478941915508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8231752478941915508' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8231752478941915508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8231752478941915508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-trip-to-mexico-nuestro-viaje-mexico.html' title='Our trip to Mexico / Nuestro viaje a México'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/S1yYRFdhLpI/AAAAAAAABCQ/pBf7OGxraj0/s72-c/DSC01142.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-4632323288151401785</id><published>2009-11-22T21:30:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T21:37:40.608-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Broken toe / Dedito roto</title><content type='html'>Last Thursday night Paul ran into a door frame and broke his baby toe. We didn't know it was broken and on Friday he had a long day, with Starfield coming to the church, Paul had a lot of work. By Saturday morning the pain was worse so we went to the doctor and found out he broke his toe and there is nothing that can be done to fix it, just take it easy. So he took sick time on Saturday and Sunday and we stayed at home. Hopefully this week he will be better, he is back to work tomorrow morning. Poor Polito!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El jueves pasado Paul se rompió el dedo chiquito del pié al correr y golpearse contra el marco de una puerta. No sabíamos que el dedito estaba roto y el viernes Paul tuvo un día muy pesado, con el concierto de Starfield. El sábado en la mañana el dolor estaba peor así que fuimos al doctor y averiguamos que en efecto el dedo está fracturado y no hay nada que se pueda hacer para repararlo, solamente cuidarse hasta que solito sane, así que el sábado y el domingo Paul no fué a trabajar, se reportó enfermo y nos quedamos en casa. Esperamos que esta semana mejore, él va a ir a trabajar mañana en la mañana. ¡Pobre Polito!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4632323288151401785?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4632323288151401785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4632323288151401785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4632323288151401785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4632323288151401785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/11/broken-toe-dedito-roto.html' title='Broken toe / Dedito roto'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1659432394752037598</id><published>2009-11-22T19:21:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T19:00:09.023-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Starfield in Calgary / Starfield en Calgary</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407140596831564674" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SwoFuXy9M4I/AAAAAAAABCA/DQxIRXXnous/s400/IMG_5099.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starfield is a great Christian band, and they are Canadian! We love their music and Catalina is a big fan, so as soon as we knew they were coming to Calgary Catalina got her ticket. They came last Friday to First Alliance Church and Paul got to help out and facilitate technical support. We both enjoyed the concert and got to chat with the band backstage. They are very friendly and kind, we really enjoyed them and their music. The concert was sold out and we all wanted more at the end, can't wait to have them back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Starfield es una banda Cristiana excelente, y son Canadienses. Nos encanta su música y Catalina es una gran admiradora, así que cuando supimos que venían a Calgary Catalina sacó su boleto. Vinieron el viernes pasado a la iglesia de la Primera Alianza (donde Paul trabaja) y Paul ayudó en cuestiones técnicas. Disfrutamos mucho el concierto y pudimos platicar con la banda atrás del escenario. Ellos son unos chicos muy amigables y amables, realmente los disfrutamos mucho a ellos y a su música. Los boletos para el concierto se agotaron y todos queríamos seguir escuchándolos al final, ¡ya queremos que regresen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407140589970800530" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SwoFt-POP5I/AAAAAAAABB4/wp8YZWw8yuk/s400/IMG_5070.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Jon &amp;amp; Catalina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 311px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407140602307081138" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SwoFusMa87I/AAAAAAAABCI/mz_2y76okvY/s400/IMG_5124v2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Starfield and Catalina (she was so happy to be with her favourite band) / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Starfield y Catalina (ella estaba felíz de estar con su banda favorita)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1659432394752037598?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1659432394752037598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1659432394752037598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1659432394752037598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1659432394752037598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/11/starfield-in-calgary-starfield-en.html' title='Starfield in Calgary / Starfield en Calgary'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SwoFuXy9M4I/AAAAAAAABCA/DQxIRXXnous/s72-c/IMG_5099.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-3882714161327549012</id><published>2009-10-25T15:05:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T19:47:31.776-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving / Acción de Gracias</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBTZ5__nI/AAAAAAAABBw/8aLrgzl5J6s/s1600-h/September+2009+061.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396650792612527730" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBTZ5__nI/AAAAAAAABBw/8aLrgzl5J6s/s400/September+2009+061.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This year we celebrated thanksgiving with the Nadeau (and Hill) family. Blake and Karen hosted a very nice dinner and we all ate great food and had good time. The event took place almost two weeks ago but we wanted to post some family pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este año celebramos Acción de Gracias con la familia Nadeau (y Hill), Blake y Karen organizaron una cena muy agradable y todos comimos muy rico y pasamos un tiempo agradable. el evento tuvo lugar hace casi dos semanas pero quisimos mostrar algunas fotos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBTF1UJUI/AAAAAAAABBo/zVE8Fd3mr0w/s1600-h/September+2009+058.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396650787224167746" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBTF1UJUI/AAAAAAAABBo/zVE8Fd3mr0w/s400/September+2009+058.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paul enjoying a great turkey dinner / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Paul disfrutando la cena que incluyó pavo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSy92jDI/AAAAAAAABBg/6AbR1Gi0qPc/s1600-h/September+2009+068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396650782159703090" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSy92jDI/AAAAAAAABBg/6AbR1Gi0qPc/s400/September+2009+068.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;We also celebrated Mom's birthday - &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;También celebramos el cumpleamos de Mom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSRFv1GI/AAAAAAAABBY/5zGK8hC-Mgo/s1600-h/September+2009+051.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396650773066011746" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSRFv1GI/AAAAAAAABBY/5zGK8hC-Mgo/s400/September+2009+051.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Blake, Paul, &amp;amp; Amy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSPrGz2I/AAAAAAAABBQ/O_gwIsv30Es/s1600-h/September+2009+053.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396650772685836130" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBSPrGz2I/AAAAAAAABBQ/O_gwIsv30Es/s400/September+2009+053.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Beautiful Amy &amp;amp; Scott&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-3882714161327549012?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/3882714161327549012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=3882714161327549012' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3882714161327549012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/3882714161327549012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/10/thanksgiving-accion-de-gracias.html' title='Thanksgiving / Acción de Gracias'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SuTBTZ5__nI/AAAAAAAABBw/8aLrgzl5J6s/s72-c/September+2009+061.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-850122455071195682</id><published>2009-10-11T12:20:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T13:09:12.362-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you, Janet! / ¡Gracias Janet!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiaC5bVxI/AAAAAAAABBI/7cLwFZTVDtk/s1600-h/IMG_4491.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391409534765586194" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiaC5bVxI/AAAAAAAABBI/7cLwFZTVDtk/s400/IMG_4491.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Janet is a great friend and now ex-co-worker of Paul. She served at the First Alliance church technical department for the last several years. She and her husband recently moved to Fort McMurray due to her husband's work, so she quit her job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Janet es una gran amiga y ahora ex-compañera de trabajo de Paul. Ella sirvió en el departamento técnico de la Iglesia de la Primera Alianza durante varios años. Ella y su esposo se mudaron recientemente a Fort McMurray debido al trabajo de su esposo, así que ella renunció a su trabajo en la iglesia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiZnrLkEI/AAAAAAAABBA/cwvL-raTa7A/s1600-h/IMG_4482.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391409527458074690" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiZnrLkEI/AAAAAAAABBA/cwvL-raTa7A/s400/IMG_4482.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We just want to thank her for her friendship and her dedication at work, she is a great co-worker and friend. Paul, Waine, and the whole church will miss her talent and hard work. Thank you Janet for all you did at the Church throughout the years, as a volunteer and as part of the staff. May God bless your every step and be always with you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Solo queremos agradecerle su amistad y dedicación en el trabajo, ella es una gran compañera y amiga. Paul, Waine, y la iglesia entera extrañaremos su talento y dedicación. ¡Gracias Janet por todo lo que hiciste por la iglesia a través de los años, como voluntaria y como empleada!. ¡Que Dios te bendiga a cada paso y esté siempre contigo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiZLz5GvI/AAAAAAAABA4/vFfPlg7a72c/s1600-h/IMG_4481.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391409519978420978" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiZLz5GvI/AAAAAAAABA4/vFfPlg7a72c/s400/IMG_4481.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The three Musketeers / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Los tres mosqueteros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-850122455071195682?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/850122455071195682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=850122455071195682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/850122455071195682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/850122455071195682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/10/thank-you-janet-gracias-janet.html' title='Thank you, Janet! / ¡Gracias Janet!'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIiaC5bVxI/AAAAAAAABBI/7cLwFZTVDtk/s72-c/IMG_4491.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8386509659989252297</id><published>2009-10-11T12:03:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T12:15:40.580-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Jenny &amp; Tito</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIeV8Pqx6I/AAAAAAAABAw/lBqL2xg2SWk/s1600-h/IMG_4233.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391405066213836706" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIeV8Pqx6I/AAAAAAAABAw/lBqL2xg2SWk/s400/IMG_4233.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jenny and Tito are missionaries in Argentina. She is from Canada (from the First Alliance Church) and he is from Ecuador. They recently came to Calgary to get married. We were asked to coach them through their marriage preparation course, mainly because he doesn't speak English and because we are a culturally mixed couple as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Tito y Jenny son misioneros en Argentina. Ella es Canadiense (de la iglesia de la Primera Alianza) y él es de Ecuador. Recientemente vinieron a Calgary a casarse. Nos pidieron que los ayudáramos en su curso de preparación matrimonial, principalmente porque él no habla inglés y porque nosotros también somos una pareja culturalmente mixta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIeVUuHTfI/AAAAAAAABAo/QXLumS8OI3w/s1600-h/IMG_4208.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391405055604116978" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIeVUuHTfI/AAAAAAAABAo/QXLumS8OI3w/s400/IMG_4208.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We enjoyed the journey with them and we were truly blessed spending time with them and being part of their wedding, where Catalina translated the ceremony for him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Disfrutamos mucho el tiempo que pasamos con ellos y recibimos grandes bendiciones al poder ayudarlos en su preparación y en su boda, donde Catalina tradujo la ceremonia para él.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;After their wedding in Calgary, they went to Ecuador for a second wedding (pretty much like ours) and after that they went back to Argentina to continue their work for God. We will continue praying for them and hopefully one will day be able to visit them in Argentina. Many blessings,  Jenny &amp;amp; Tito!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después de la boda en Calgary, ellos viajaron a Ecuador a celebrar su segunda boda (como lo hicimos nosotros) y después regresaron a Argentina a continuar su labor para el Señor. Continuaremos orando por ellos y ojalá algún día podamos ir a visitarlos a Argentina. ¡Muchas bendiciones, Jenny y Tito!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8386509659989252297?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8386509659989252297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8386509659989252297' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8386509659989252297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8386509659989252297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/10/jenny-tito.html' title='Jenny &amp; Tito'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/StIeV8Pqx6I/AAAAAAAABAw/lBqL2xg2SWk/s72-c/IMG_4233.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1329652608077645103</id><published>2009-06-24T20:58:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T21:09:54.352-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Intolerant / Intolerante</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SkLoG_uEzSI/AAAAAAAABAY/AA-NyFLxHL8/s1600-h/IMG_3868.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351094514151116066" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SkLoG_uEzSI/AAAAAAAABAY/AA-NyFLxHL8/s400/IMG_3868.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Catalina has been diagnosed with lactose intolerance which broke her heart, she loves cheese (especially gourmet cheeses), cream, ice cream, and yogourt. The doctor recommended that she completely eliminates the dairy products from her diet for at least a month, later she can take lactate pills to prevent getting sick from dairy. This is going to be a long month.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Catalina ha sido diagnosticada con intolerancia a la lactosa, lo que rompió su corazón porque a ella le encanta el queso (especialmente los quesos gourmet), la crema, el helado y el yogourt. La doctora recomendó que Catalina no consuma ningún producto lácteo por lo menos durante un mes, después del cual ela puede tomar unas pastillas que le permitirán digerir los lácteos, pero de todos modos no podrá consumirlos muy seguido. Éste va a ser un mes muy largo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1329652608077645103?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1329652608077645103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1329652608077645103' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1329652608077645103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1329652608077645103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/06/intolerant-intolerante.html' title='Intolerant / Intolerante'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SkLoG_uEzSI/AAAAAAAABAY/AA-NyFLxHL8/s72-c/IMG_3868.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8286806327524177843</id><published>2009-06-11T21:52:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T21:56:55.194-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael, Melissa, and Hannah / Michael, Melissa y Hannah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHRcthMMyI/AAAAAAAABAQ/cjXM5WaJb5A/s1600-h/May+2009+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346284523850838818" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHRcthMMyI/AAAAAAAABAQ/cjXM5WaJb5A/s400/May+2009+005.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This is the happy family, Michael, Melissa and Hannah. Our friends from St. Mike's had they beautiful baby last February, the same day as Catalina's birthday. We are just so happy for them, that we wanted to share this beautiful picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Esta es la familia felíz, Michael, Melissa y Hannah. Nuestros amigos de la iglesia de San Mighel tuvieron su preciosa bebé en Febrero pasado, el mismo día del cumpleaños de Catalina. Estamos tan felices por ellos que quisimos mostrar esta foto tan linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8286806327524177843?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8286806327524177843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8286806327524177843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8286806327524177843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8286806327524177843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-melissa-and-hannah-michael.html' title='Michael, Melissa, and Hannah / Michael, Melissa y Hannah'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHRcthMMyI/AAAAAAAABAQ/cjXM5WaJb5A/s72-c/May+2009+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2937795055628201299</id><published>2009-06-11T21:33:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T21:52:06.856-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Drumheller</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHO0U4l5xI/AAAAAAAABAI/KbRxsgS_OOo/s1600-h/May+2009+021.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346280905658609538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHOKGs8L4I/AAAAAAAABAA/qy8G6QVxRPk/s400/May+2009+013.JPG" /&gt;Few weeks ago we visited Drumheller, we love the dinosaur environment of this special area of the country. The first place we visited was the Royal Tyrrell Museum, we love the displays and the many dinosaur exhibit. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Hace algunas semanas visitamos Drumheller, nos encanta el ambiente de dinosaurios en esta área especial del país. El primer lugar que visitamos fué el museo Tyrrell, nos encantan las exposiciones que el museo presenta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We also walked around the town, visited the very nice souvenir stores (where you can buy fossiles such as dinosaur heads, eggs, teeth, etc) and stopped by the lookout to admire the special geography of the area. It was a special day for us and we had lots of fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;También caminamos un poco en el pueblo y visitamos las tiendas de recuerdos (donde puedes comprar piezas fósiles de dinosaurios, huevos, dientes, cabezas, etc) y paramos en el mirador para admirar la geografía tan especial de este lugar. Fue un día especial para nosotros y nos divertimos mucho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHMz0XeL6I/AAAAAAAAA_4/EiSD3UGmLJg/s1600-h/May+2009+017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346279423267975074" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHMz0XeL6I/AAAAAAAAA_4/EiSD3UGmLJg/s400/May+2009+017.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2937795055628201299?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2937795055628201299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2937795055628201299' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2937795055628201299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2937795055628201299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/06/drumheller.html' title='Drumheller'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SjHOKGs8L4I/AAAAAAAABAA/qy8G6QVxRPk/s72-c/May+2009+013.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-6596704310698546204</id><published>2009-03-01T11:58:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-01T12:47:58.538-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tamales</title><content type='html'>Mexico has several types of tamales; pretty much every Region has its own style. Mamita knows how to make several kinds from the South of the Country and to celebrate papito’s birthday (before the surprise party), mamita prepared two different kinds of tamales, the ranch ones and the Chiapas ones (papito is from Chiapas, so all the family was looking forward to these tamales). We helped and here is the process for the ranch tamales:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mexico tiene muchos tipos de tamales; casi cada región tiene su propio estilo. Mamita sabe como preparar varios tipos de tamales del sur del país y para celebrar el cumpleaños de papito (antes de la fiesta sorpresa), mamita preparó dos tipos diferentes de tamales, rancheros y Chiapanecos (papito es de Chiapas, así que toda la familia esperaba comer de este tipo de tamales). Ayudamos a prepararlos y aquí está el proceso para los tamales rancheros:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The banana leaves (used to wrap these tamales) are cut in pieces appropriate to wrap each tamal / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Las hojas de plátano (que se usan para envolver este tipo de tameles) se cortan en tamaños apropiados para envolver cada tamal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcxT62wAI/AAAAAAAAA_w/x97ilQDtebk/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297850528382978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcxT62wAI/AAAAAAAAA_w/x97ilQDtebk/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+047.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once cut, the leaves must be cooked to make them soft and easy to manipulate. We cook them directly on top of the fire / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Una vez cortadas, las hojas deben cocerse para hacerlas suaves y fáciles de manipular. Las cocinamos directamente en el fuego. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcwzoQ7gI/AAAAAAAAA_o/eg-zr6VSyjg/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297841860472322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcwzoQ7gI/AAAAAAAAA_o/eg-zr6VSyjg/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+050.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dough (prepared by mixing corn flour with chicken broth, salt and shortening) is placed on the bottom. / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La masa (preparada mezclando harina de maíz con caldo de pollo, sal y manteca vegetal) se coloca primero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcCQNBMvI/AAAAAAAAA_g/txbasmpSJB0/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297042076971762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcCQNBMvI/AAAAAAAAA_g/txbasmpSJB0/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chicken (cooked and separated) and salsa (prepared by Paul by mixing chilli peppers and tomatoes) are next / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El pollo (cocido y deshebrado) y la salsa (preparada por Paul mezclando chiles y jitomates) se colocan a continuación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBkCMwnI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/F79ysdfaGmo/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297030220431986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBkCMwnI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/F79ysdfaGmo/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+037.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secret of these tamales is a leave called, momo or holy leave which has a very good taste (somewhat similar to mint) and provides the special taste to the tamales./ &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El secreto de estos tamales es una hierba llamada momo o hierba santa, la cual tien un sabor muy especial (de algún modo similar al sabor de la menta) y da el sabor especial a los tamales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBROzwZI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/gNyjyGCE3NE/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297025173045650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBROzwZI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/gNyjyGCE3NE/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+039.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you wrap the tamales and steam them / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Después se envuelven los tamales y se cuecen al vapor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBcDG4EI/AAAAAAAAA_I/8e0MyIBWlO8/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297028076757058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcBcDG4EI/AAAAAAAAA_I/8e0MyIBWlO8/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy! / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;¡A disfrutar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcA6NvQ3I/AAAAAAAAA_A/tB4PmmVFxmQ/s1600-h/Papito%27s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+198.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308297018994541426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcA6NvQ3I/AAAAAAAAA_A/tB4PmmVFxmQ/s400/Papito%27s+70th+bday+Feb+2009+198.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-6596704310698546204?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/6596704310698546204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=6596704310698546204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6596704310698546204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/6596704310698546204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/03/tamales.html' title='Tamales'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SarcxT62wAI/AAAAAAAAA_w/x97ilQDtebk/s72-c/Mexico+Feb+2009+047.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2180300816600673316</id><published>2009-02-22T11:52:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T13:18:50.804-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cactus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305698066265478002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgR807E3I/AAAAAAAAA-o/Peybn141SWU/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+067.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Quinta Schmoll” is located 29 km north of Tequisquiapan, in the town of Cadereyta. This beautiful botanical garden is dedicated to the reproduction of cactus and succulent plants and is one of the largest in Latin America (with over 4,400 varieties of cactus), known internationally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La Quinta Schmoll se encuentra a 29 km al norte de Tequisquiapan, en el pueblo de Cadereyta. Este hermoso jardín botánico está dedicado a la reproducción de cactáceas y plantas suculentas y es uno de los más grandes en Latinoamérica (con más de 4,400 variedades de cactus), conocido internacionalmente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were able to enjoy a guided visit through the greenhouse, for less than a dollar per person (10 pesos); the entrance fee also included the gift of a plant per person. We are not allowed to bring plants to Canada, but they gave us seeds and when we passed through customs we declared and showed the seeds and the officer allowed us to bring them, so we will soon be planting cactus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Pudimos disfrutar de una visita guiada por menos de un dólar por persona (10 pesos); la entrada también incluyó el obsequio de una planta por persona. No se nos permite traer plantas a Canadá, pero nos dieron semillas y cuando pasamos por aduanas declaramos y mostramos las semillas y el oficial nos permitió traerlas, así que pronto estaremos sembrando cactus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a few pictures from our visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Aquí hay algunas fotos de nuestra visita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305698053572609074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgRNitRDI/AAAAAAAAA-g/h_kFTkbtYrg/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+063.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;These are the “old men”, one of the most attractive species in this botanical garden. They live up to 500 years (but have the white hair since they are babies) and flower only once, when they are approximately 300 years old, and that is when they reproduce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Estos son los “viejitos”, una de las especies más atractivas del lugar. Viven hasta 500 años (pero tienen el pelo blanco desde que son bebés) y florean una sola vez, cuando tienen aproximadamente 300 años de edad, que es cuando se reproducen.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305698046702890290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgQz81rTI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/2GGafxuPqN4/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This one, called Viznaga or “Mother in law’s seat” is used in traditional medicine and in delicious local recipes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Esta se llama Viznaga o “asiento de la suegra” y se usa en medicina tradicional y en deliciosas recetas locales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgffZI9kI/AAAAAAAAA-4/QL-nQlrry3c/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305698298882487874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgffZI9kI/AAAAAAAAA-4/QL-nQlrry3c/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+074.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paulito / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Polito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgR3gOU_I/AAAAAAAAA-w/juBhttNBHEY/s1600-h/Mexico+Feb+2009+071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305698064836482034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgR3gOU_I/AAAAAAAAA-w/juBhttNBHEY/s400/Mexico+Feb+2009+071.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Part of the family that went to the tour, mamita, Catalina, papito, Bella, and Dea / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Parte de la familia que fuimos al tour, mamita, Catalina, papito, Bella y Dea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2180300816600673316?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2180300816600673316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2180300816600673316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2180300816600673316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2180300816600673316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/02/cactus.html' title='Cactus'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SaGgR807E3I/AAAAAAAAA-o/Peybn141SWU/s72-c/Mexico+Feb+2009+067.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8138237091451416631</id><published>2009-02-11T17:27:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T18:18:47.032-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Back from Mexico, again / Regresamos de México, otra vez</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SZYZhcEiJbI/AAAAAAAAA-I/7b4QSmN0Ebo/s1600-h/014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302453673536923058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 268px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SZYZhcEiJbI/AAAAAAAAA-I/7b4QSmN0Ebo/s400/014.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Yes, again. We just came back from a last minute trip to Mexico. Papito (Catalina's dad) turned 70 last week and a surprise party was organized by Mamita, Dea, Catalina, and our aunt Lupita, one of papito's sisters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Si, otra vez. Acabamos de regresar de un viaje de último minuto a México. Papito (el papá de Catalina) cumplió 70 años la semana pasada y una fiesta sorpresa fué organizada por Mamita, Dea, Catalina, y nuestra tía Lupita, una de las hermanas de papito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent 10 days in México and enjoyed great weather, food, and mainly, family. We celebrated with members of the Bonilla family that we don't see often. Came back to winterland (Canada) very tired, but very happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Pasamos 10 días en México y disfrutamos un clima hermoso, comida, y sobre todo, familia. Celebramos con miembros de la familia Bonilla que no vemos muy seguido. Regresamos a la tierra del invierno (Canada) muy cansados, pero muy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;felices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8138237091451416631?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8138237091451416631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8138237091451416631' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8138237091451416631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8138237091451416631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2009/02/back-from-mexico-again-regresamos-de.html' title='Back from Mexico, again / Regresamos de México, otra vez'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SZYZhcEiJbI/AAAAAAAAA-I/7b4QSmN0Ebo/s72-c/014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-4754514626291043129</id><published>2008-12-25T19:10:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T20:09:04.620-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 2008 / Navidad 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;David (Paul's dad) writing: this year, we celebrated Christmas in the city with our family. It was a pleasure to be with all the children and two grandchildren. After a nice meal at Jenny's on one side of the city, and after racing up to Blake's for the night in the northern part, we zoomed down to the southwest to be with Paul and Catalina for an equally nice meal with Amy as chief cook. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;David (el papá de Paul) escribe: Este año celebramos Navidad en la ciudad (Calgary) con nuestra familia. Fué un placer estar con todos los niños y los dos nietos. Después de una cena agradable (Nochebuena) en la casa de Jenny en un extremo de la ciudad, después de cruzar al otro extremo (el Norte) a pasar la noche en la casa de Blake, manejamos rápidamente al sur oeste para pasarla con Paul y Catalina y disfrutar una igualmente agradable cena el día de hoy con Amy como la jefa en la cocina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283926438047714882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRHGZchDkI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ZVhBsQBDaTU/s400/Christmas+2008+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283926427949669586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRHFz09HNI/AAAAAAAAA8A/0pzVAVdUhWc/s400/Christmas+2008+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283926426913073138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRHFv9z5_I/AAAAAAAAA74/4HLgUhpQFfQ/s400/Christmas+2008+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283919057049504130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRAYxFaSYI/AAAAAAAAA7o/wHXS3MwsUS4/s400/Christmas+2008+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283930125387768434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRKdB25InI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/7PgmbPwkybk/s400/Christmas+2008+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-4754514626291043129?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/4754514626291043129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=4754514626291043129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4754514626291043129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/4754514626291043129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-2008.html' title='Christmas 2008 / Navidad 2008'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SVRHGZchDkI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ZVhBsQBDaTU/s72-c/Christmas+2008+027.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5701849329877773667</id><published>2008-12-07T16:32:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T13:08:14.565-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Texolo waterfalls / Cascadas de Texolo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/ST199XHynYI/AAAAAAAAA68/has9yz_k4AQ/s1600-h/October+-+November+2008+280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277512831480274306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/ST199XHynYI/AAAAAAAAA68/has9yz_k4AQ/s400/October+-+November+2008+280.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Texolo waterfalls are located less than 20 km from Xalapa. The falls are located in the middle of a semi-jungle, near a town called Xico, famous for its sweet mole (which we enjoyed after visiting the falls), its coffee, and its fruit liquors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Las cascadas de Texolo se encuentran a menos de 20 kilómetros de Xalapa. Localizadas a media semi-jungla, cerca de un pueblo llamado Xico, famoso por su mole dulce (el cual disfrutamos después de visitar las cascadas), su café y sus licores de frutas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277196941055090370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxeqHld3sI/AAAAAAAAA4c/d0bOCR8TAs8/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+284.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The falls are surrounded by forests of banana trees and coffee bushes, among other plants. We were able to see hundreds of “88” butterflies, as Catalina calls them because they seem to have a number 88 on the inside of each wing. The outside of the wings is black with a bluish/green line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Las cascadas están rodeadas de plantas de plátano y café, entro otras. Vimos cientos de mariposas “88”, como las llama Catalina puesto que parecen tener un número 88 en el lado interno de cada ala. El lado externo es negro con una línea verde-azulada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfx003gzI/AAAAAAAAA5E/OsYVlVxZxu8/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+273.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277198172969993010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfx003gzI/AAAAAAAAA5E/OsYVlVxZxu8/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+273.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Bad picture of a dead 88 butterfly / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Foto desenfocada de una mariposa 88 muerta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfxkkb8CI/AAAAAAAAA48/fT---CdsQ1c/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+264.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277198168606109730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfxkkb8CI/AAAAAAAAA48/fT---CdsQ1c/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+264.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Banana trees / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Matas de Plátano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfxHzZ7hI/AAAAAAAAA40/TqGeWH5GYOU/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+265.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277198160884264466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxfxHzZ7hI/AAAAAAAAA40/TqGeWH5GYOU/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+265.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bananas /&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Plátanos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277511002267301746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/ST18S4xbt3I/AAAAAAAAA60/7TjW0Whm6wc/s400/October+-+November+2008+301.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Coffee beans / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Planta de café&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxeqRGC0TI/AAAAAAAAA4k/s_2g_GVLUkI/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+281.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277196943607648562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxeqRGC0TI/AAAAAAAAA4k/s_2g_GVLUkI/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+281.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Vegetation growing on top of vegetation / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Vegetación creciendo encima de la vegetación existente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277510999789688930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/ST18SviuWGI/AAAAAAAAA6s/eJXFm8z0HCE/s400/October+-+November+2008+288.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One of the big trees that we saw (yes, those are Dea and Bella) / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Uno de los grandes árboles que vimos (sí, esas son Dea y Bella)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;We visited the falls and enjoyed a nice walk in that humid, exotic, and warm place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Visitamos las cascadas y disfrutamos una caminata muy agradable en este húmedo, exótico y cálido lugar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxeppjLk1I/AAAAAAAAA4U/fAKAfLh2f-8/s1600-h/Fotos_cÃ¡mara_Fufo+407.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277196932992439122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxeppjLk1I/AAAAAAAAA4U/fAKAfLh2f-8/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+407.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxepcP-0uI/AAAAAAAAA4M/0EHXmDNGDvw/s1600-h/Fotos_cÃ¡mara_Fufo+414.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277196929422250722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STxepcP-0uI/AAAAAAAAA4M/0EHXmDNGDvw/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+414.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5701849329877773667?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5701849329877773667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5701849329877773667' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5701849329877773667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5701849329877773667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/12/texolo-waterfalls.html' title='Texolo waterfalls / Cascadas de Texolo'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/ST199XHynYI/AAAAAAAAA68/has9yz_k4AQ/s72-c/October+-+November+2008+280.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8511553430814991983</id><published>2008-11-29T13:10:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T13:51:30.564-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One day at the beach / Un día en la playa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkdfQeU-I/AAAAAAAAA38/cXphESCo7k4/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+177.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274177465141318626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkdfQeU-I/AAAAAAAAA38/cXphESCo7k4/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+177.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Staying in Xalapa has many advantages, one of them is the opportunity to visit different places located in the area. The beach is one of or favourites. Chachalacas is a nice beach, not very touristy and visited mainly by locals. Since we went there during the week, we were the only ones at the beach and spent a great day, ate fresh seafood and played with the sand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we playing with the sand, a fish fell from the sky and started moving. We noticed that a group of seagulls was flying above us, so probably the fish came from the mouth of one of them and was lucky enough to be rescued and put back in the ocean. It was an exciting moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiene muchas ventajas el hospedarse en Xalapa, una de ellas es la oportunidad de visitar diferentes lugares localizados en la cercanía. La playa es uno de esos lugares. Chachalacas es una playa linda, no muy turística y visitada principalmente por los lugareños. Ya que fuimos entre semana fuimos los únicos en la playa ya pasamos un día padrísimo, comimos mariscos frescos y jugamos en la playa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mientras jugábamos en la arena, un pez cayó del cielo y empezó a coletear. Notamos que una bandada de gaviotas estaba volando encima de nosotros, así que probablemente el pez cayó del pico de alguna de ellas y tuvo la suerte de ser rescatado y puesto de vuelta en el mar. Fue un momento emocionante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkc6ELNzI/AAAAAAAAA30/qUWBvYtfebA/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+181.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274177455157622578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkc6ELNzI/AAAAAAAAA30/qUWBvYtfebA/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+181.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkce7JlHI/AAAAAAAAA3s/SdsiXNpN6qU/s1600-h/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+359.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274177447872009330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkce7JlHI/AAAAAAAAA3s/SdsiXNpN6qU/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+359.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274175612662497554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGixqPGwRI/AAAAAAAAA3c/TzAv0h2F3ws/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+360.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiyCiuVzI/AAAAAAAAA3k/XB7Xj3MWZZM/s1600-h/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+365.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274175619187234610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiyCiuVzI/AAAAAAAAA3k/XB7Xj3MWZZM/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+365.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274178187893825250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGlHjuGXuI/AAAAAAAAA4E/x47Y3R4mWYk/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+369.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiwnbHB9I/AAAAAAAAA3M/dAbs0VUtT7A/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+191.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274175594727671762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiwnbHB9I/AAAAAAAAA3M/dAbs0VUtT7A/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+191.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiwF3C8tI/AAAAAAAAA3E/x9bNeppJbN0/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+189.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274175585718039250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGiwF3C8tI/AAAAAAAAA3E/x9bNeppJbN0/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+189.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(No doubt who took this picture) / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;(No hay duda de quién tomó esta foto)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8511553430814991983?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8511553430814991983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8511553430814991983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8511553430814991983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8511553430814991983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-day-at-beach-un-da-en-la-playa.html' title='One day at the beach / Un día en la playa'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGkdfQeU-I/AAAAAAAAA38/cXphESCo7k4/s72-c/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+177.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8243990494518402224</id><published>2008-11-29T11:26:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T12:17:11.873-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Actopan, Veracruz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP5_97vSI/AAAAAAAAA28/BUSrcmf6Tnw/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+136.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274154865214078242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP5_97vSI/AAAAAAAAA28/BUSrcmf6Tnw/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+136.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actopan is a small village located around 50 km from Xalapa, in the route to the coast.&lt;br /&gt;This place is much known for its main agricultural activity: mango. This is the place where most of the mangos come from. Actopan is also known for the beautiful and clean Actopan river, where kayaking is very popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent a day in Actopan; Catalina wanted to show Paul the mango fields. Unfortunately the mango season is not until May, so we didn’t see any mangos, but Paul experienced the coastal climate and had the opportunity to enjoy lunch at an outdoors restaurant, located beside the river, under mango trees. The main dish in this place is a kind of prawn (which is between shrimp and lobster) captured at the river. There is also an area with swimming pools, where Carlos, Bella, and Dea spent some time cooling down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Actopan es un pueblo localizado a unos 50 km de Xalapa, camino a la costa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este lugar es famoso por su principal actividad agricultural: el mango. De aquí provienen muchos de los mangos que comemos en México. Actopan es también conocido por el hermoso y limpio río de Actopan, donde se practica mucho el kayaking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Pasamos un día en Actopan; Catalina quería mostrarle a Paul las huertas de mango. Desafortunadamente la temporada de mango no empieza hasta Mayo, así que no vimos ningún mango, pero Paul experimentó el clima de la costa y tuvo la oportunidad de disfrutar una comida en un restaurante al aire libre, localizado junto al río, bajo los árboles de mango. El platillo principal de ese lugar son los langostinos, provenientes del río Actopan. También hay un área con albercas, donde Carlos, Bella y Dea pasaron un rato refrescándose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP5T1tNiI/AAAAAAAAA20/bPFzUrBbupY/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274154853368411682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP5T1tNiI/AAAAAAAAA20/bPFzUrBbupY/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mango fields / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Huertas de mango&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP45DZBlI/AAAAAAAAA2s/fh0fSoQW5sk/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+140.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274154846178051666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP45DZBlI/AAAAAAAAA2s/fh0fSoQW5sk/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+140.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Papito and mamita at the restaurant by the river / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Papito y mamita en el restaurante frente al río&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP4DBY_oI/AAAAAAAAA2k/8SnQsvcW4-o/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+143.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274154831674146434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP4DBY_oI/AAAAAAAAA2k/8SnQsvcW4-o/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+143.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paul at the restaurant / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Paul en el restaurante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP3j_86vI/AAAAAAAAA2c/sb1oPYGyJZA/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274154823346612978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP3j_86vI/AAAAAAAAA2c/sb1oPYGyJZA/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+144.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Prawns in chipotle sauce (delicious!) / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Langostinos enchipotlados (¡deliciosos!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGKseJDfDI/AAAAAAAAA2U/vCas-SKD_FI/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+149.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274149135237479474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGKseJDfDI/AAAAAAAAA2U/vCas-SKD_FI/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+149.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Fruits and vanilla being sold by the highway / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Frutas y vainilla a la venta en la carretera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8243990494518402224?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8243990494518402224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8243990494518402224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8243990494518402224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8243990494518402224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/11/actopan-veracruz.html' title='Actopan, Veracruz'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/STGP5_97vSI/AAAAAAAAA28/BUSrcmf6Tnw/s72-c/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+136.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-392470059661318748</id><published>2008-11-24T20:50:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T21:24:50.295-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Xalapa, Veracruz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3frele7I/AAAAAAAAA2M/-Cx0dCPIV7c/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272439174897957810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3frele7I/AAAAAAAAA2M/-Cx0dCPIV7c/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+110.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Xalapa (or Jalapa) is the capital city of the State of Veracruz, located in the central East of the country, approximately 350 kilometres from Mexico City (and only around 40 km from the beach). The city's nickname is "The City of Flowers”, for its beautiful vegetation and colourful flowers (as a result of its semi-humid climate).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to its ideal climate and geography, Xalapa is one of the most important places for coffee production in Mexico. Xalapa is also the birthplace of the Jalapeño peppers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catalina and her family lived in Xalapa during her senior High School years and have many memories of that beautiful place. So this time we decided going to Xalapa with Catalina’s parents, Dea, and kids, and spent several days exploring the city and surroundings. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Xalapa (o Jalapa) es la capital del Estado de Veracruz, localizada en el centro-Oriente del país, aproximadamente 350 kilómetros de la Ciudad de México (y a solo 40 km de la playa). Se le conoce como "La Ciudad de las Flores" por su hermosa vegetación y coloridas flores (el clima es semi-húmedo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Debido a su clima ideal y geografía , Xalapa es uno de los lugares más importantes para el cultivo del café en México. Xalapa es también el lugar de origen del chile Jalapeño.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Catalina y su familia vivieron en Xalapa durante el tiempo en que ella estudió la preparatoria y tienen muchas hermosos recuerdos de este lugar. Así que esta vez decidimos visitar Xalapa con la familia de Catalina y pasamos varios días explorando la ciudad y sus alrededores.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3frxs45I/AAAAAAAAA2E/IZHcGn8alQg/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+254.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272439174978134930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3frxs45I/AAAAAAAAA2E/IZHcGn8alQg/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+254.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Interactive Museum of Xalapa / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Museo Interactivo de Xalapa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3fKlajsI/AAAAAAAAA18/QuFYrdr5Umk/s1600-h/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+336.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272439166068231874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3fKlajsI/AAAAAAAAA18/QuFYrdr5Umk/s400/Fotos_c%C3%A1mara_Fufo+336.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The family in the park / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La familia en el parque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3euYRXDI/AAAAAAAAA10/R6aK3Auih18/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+087.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272439158496910386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3euYRXDI/AAAAAAAAA10/R6aK3Auih18/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+087.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The park of Los Berros / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El parque de Los Berros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt2fjk7fDI/AAAAAAAAA1s/PBYSpWfwA_w/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+113.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272438073265454130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt2fjk7fDI/AAAAAAAAA1s/PBYSpWfwA_w/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+113.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; The (very steep) street where Catalina and her family lived / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La (muy empinada) calle donde Catalina y su familia vivieron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-392470059661318748?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/392470059661318748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=392470059661318748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/392470059661318748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/392470059661318748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/11/xalapa.html' title='Xalapa, Veracruz'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSt3frele7I/AAAAAAAAA2M/-Cx0dCPIV7c/s72-c/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+110.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8567706904329308986</id><published>2008-11-21T11:33:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T19:43:06.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tequisquiapan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_2CLQAhI/AAAAAAAAA1k/_qG0HBppcgg/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271181717645820434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_2CLQAhI/AAAAAAAAA1k/_qG0HBppcgg/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This was the first time we were able to fly directly from Calgary to Mexico City (Mexicana airlines is now offering several flights in that route). Once in Mexico City, we took a bus to Tequisquiapan (Tequis), where Catalina’s parents, sister Dea, and Dea’s children live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tequisquiapan is a very small town, located in the State of Queretaro, central Mexico. It’s very well known for its thermal spring waters (several hotels have their own springs, and when we celebrated our wedding there, we spent our wedding night at a suite with its own spring inside). Tequis is also famous for being the centre of a wine and cheese producing region (an annual wine and cheese fair takes place every May).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent some days in Tequis before leaving for the Gulf of Mexico, which we'll describe later. Here are some pictures of the town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Esta fue la primera vez que pudimos volar directamente de Calgary a la Ciudad de México (Mexicana ya está ofreciendo varios vuelos en esa ruta). Una vez en la Ciudad de México tomamos un camión a Tequisquiapan (Tequis), donde viven los papás de Catalina, su hermana Dea y los niños de Dea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Tequis es un pueblo pequeño, localizado en el Estado de Querétaro, en el centro del país. Es muy conocido por sus aguas termales (varios hoteles tienen sus propias aguas termales y cuando celebramos nuestra boda ahí, pasamos la noche de bodas en una suite que tenía su propia poza). Tequis también es famosa por ser el centro de una región productora de queso y vino (una feria anual del Queso y el Vino se celebra cada mes de mayo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Pasamos unos días en Tequis antes de irnos al Golfo de México, de lo cual hablaremos más tarde. Aquí hay algunas fotos de este pueblo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_1gZDG5I/AAAAAAAAA1c/_JwlLgUfBUc/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271181708576889746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_1gZDG5I/AAAAAAAAA1c/_JwlLgUfBUc/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Handcrafting / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Artesanía&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_1ex7OuI/AAAAAAAAA1U/ApfZNF27hSs/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271181708144360162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_1ex7OuI/AAAAAAAAA1U/ApfZNF27hSs/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Typical street / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Calle típica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_0mpmgxI/AAAAAAAAA1M/sD4XUs5RNfU/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+385.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271181693077062418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_0mpmgxI/AAAAAAAAA1M/sD4XUs5RNfU/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+385.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bugambilia flowers (in November)/ &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Flores de bugambilia (en noviembre)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-8567706904329308986?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/8567706904329308986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=8567706904329308986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8567706904329308986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/8567706904329308986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/11/tequisquiapan.html' title='Tequisquiapan'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSb_2CLQAhI/AAAAAAAAA1k/_qG0HBppcgg/s72-c/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+013.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-2973155620852296231</id><published>2008-11-19T21:27:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T21:36:32.353-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Back from Mexico / Regresamos de México</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSTncLzekFI/AAAAAAAAA1E/gq25Dk8TLsg/s1600-h/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+188.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270591935321378898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSTncLzekFI/AAAAAAAAA1E/gq25Dk8TLsg/s400/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+188.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Yes, we came back over a week ago and hadn't been able to update our blog until now. We enjoyed two weeks of warm weather, beautiful places, great food and especially, spending time with our family in Mexico. It was great and now we are looking forward to going back to Mexico. Will post pictures and stories soon, please stay connected!. Thank you for your prayers, we were very safe and healthy. Thank you Lord for this great time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Así&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;es, regresamos hace más de una semana y no habíamos tenido tiempo para actualizar nuestro blog. Disfrutamos dos semanas de clima tibio, hermosos lugares, comida buenísima y sobre todo,´pasamos unos días hermosos con nuestra familia en México. Estuvo padrísimo y esperamos poder volver pronto a viajar a México. Pronto pondremos aquí fotos e historias del viaje, así que por favor sigan conectados. Gracias por sus oraciones, tuvimos un viaje muy seguro y regresamos con bien. ¡Gracias Señor por estas vacaciones!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-2973155620852296231?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/2973155620852296231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=2973155620852296231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2973155620852296231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/2973155620852296231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/11/back-from-mexico-regresamos-de-mxico.html' title='Back from Mexico / Regresamos de México'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SSTncLzekFI/AAAAAAAAA1E/gq25Dk8TLsg/s72-c/Mexico+Trip+October+2008+188.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-5884740827660602086</id><published>2008-10-05T11:06:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T13:23:59.674-06:00</updated><title type='text'>September come and gone / Septiembre vino y se fue</title><content type='html'>Last month we were very busy and we did not update our blog at all. Now we want to take some time to summarize the highlights of the month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September started with the Labour Day weekend. Our tradition is going to Heritage Park every Labour Day to remember the simple life of the early days of this wonderful country, and this year was not the exception, we spent the day at the Calgary of the past and had a relaxing, fun day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El mes pasado estuvimos muy ocupados y no pudimos actualizar nuestro blog, pero ahora queremos dedicar un poco de tiempo a resumir las partes importantes del mes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Septiembre empezó con el puente del Día del Trabajo. Nuestra tradición es ir al parque Heritage cada Día del Trabajo para recordar la vida simple de los primeros días de este hermoso país, y este año no fue la excepción, pasamos el día en la Calgary del pasado y tuvimos un día divertido y relajante.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkMEo9nbyI/AAAAAAAAA08/vCpDX2nYCqE/s1600-h/September%2708+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253743714159259426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkMEo9nbyI/AAAAAAAAA08/vCpDX2nYCqE/s400/September%2708+026.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paul in jail / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Paul en la cárcel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLu70NyJI/AAAAAAAAA0s/-3ngnkljlv4/s1600-h/September%2708+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLvEFFWQI/AAAAAAAAA00/2_FxjFTlsm4/s1600-h/September%2708+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253743343481215234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLvEFFWQI/AAAAAAAAA00/2_FxjFTlsm4/s400/September%2708+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the world was wrapping up the Olympic Games in China, the First Alliance Church (where Paul works) started the new season with an Olympic theme: “Get in the Games”, inviting its members to be part of the church (volunteering). An original Olympic flame was used for the opening service, from the Winter Olympics that took place in Calgary in 1988 and the whole service was amazingly done. Several people came forward after the service to offer their talents and time to serve at the Church.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mientras el mundo estaba concluyendo la celebración de las Olimpiadas en China, la iglesia de la Primera Alianza (donde trabaja Paul) empezó el nuevo ciclo con un tema olímpico “Participa en los Juegos”, invitando a sus miembros a formar parte de la iglesia (como voluntarios). Un pebetero olímpico original se usó durante el servicio, proveniente de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno que tuvieron lugar en Calgary en 1988 y el servicio estuvo muy impresionante y bien hecho. Como resultado muchas personas ofrecieron su tiempo y su talento para servir como voluntarios en la iglesia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLVxRp3uI/AAAAAAAAA0c/DHXo4SxMqqM/s1600-h/September%2708+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742908936937186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLVxRp3uI/AAAAAAAAA0c/DHXo4SxMqqM/s400/September%2708+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLWNfW17I/AAAAAAAAA0k/SrLRSes7yB8/s1600-h/September%2708+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742916510603186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLWNfW17I/AAAAAAAAA0k/SrLRSes7yB8/s400/September%2708+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On September 16, Mexico celebrated the 198 anniversary of its independence from Spain. Just before the dawn of that day in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, a Roman Catholic priest, rang the bells of his church (located in the village of Dolores). Parishioners expected to hear mass but instead they heard a call to arms. The famous “Cry of Dolores” or “Cry of Independence” in which Hidalgo demanded independence was first pronounced there. Hidalgo called on his people to force out all foreign invaders and rulers so that Mexicans would govern their own country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As every year since then, this year, Mexicans celebrated that night all over the world and the Consulate of Mexico in Calgary organized a very nice party to celebrate. Hundreds of Mexicans attended and this was the first year that we participated. Authentic food, music and dance were the highlights of that night, which is called “Mexican night” or “The night of the cry”. Everybody participated in the ceremony of re-enacting the Cry of Dolores and the music of Mariachis and typical dancers made Catalina cry of homesickness. It was a very special night but a little confusing night for Paul.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El 16 de Septiembre, México celebró el 198 aniversario de su independencia de España. En las primeras horas de ese día en 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, un cura católico hizo sonar las campanas de su iglesia en Dolores. Los parroquianos esperaban escuchar misa pero en lugar de ello, escucharon un llamado a tomar las armas. El famoso grito de Dolores o Grito de la Independencia, en el cual Hidalgo exigía independencia fue pronunciado ahí por primera vez. Hidalgo convocó a su gente a sacar a los invasores extranjeros que regían el país para que los Mexicanos pudieran gobernar su propio país.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Como cada año desde entonces, este año los mexicanos celebraron esa noche en todo el mundo y el Consulado de México en Calgary organizó una fiesta muy padre para celebrar. Cientos de mexicanos acudieron y éste fue el primer año que nosotros participamos. Comida, música y bailes folklóricos auténticos fueron la mejor parte de la noche. Todos participamos en la ceremonia del grito y la música de mariachis y los bailes típicos hicieron que Catalina llorara de nostalgia. Fue una noche especial aunque un poco confusa para Paul. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLAjwxDaI/AAAAAAAAA0M/FAuReN9qb7M/s1600-h/September%2708+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742544532082082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLAjwxDaI/AAAAAAAAA0M/FAuReN9qb7M/s400/September%2708+053.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLAh-Lw1I/AAAAAAAAA0U/dRsoaKLioeE/s1600-h/September%2708+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742544051487570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkLAh-Lw1I/AAAAAAAAA0U/dRsoaKLioeE/s400/September%2708+056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKtoi8Z9I/AAAAAAAAA0E/cKB50nfCl7s/s1600-h/September%2708+059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742219398768594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKtoi8Z9I/AAAAAAAAA0E/cKB50nfCl7s/s400/September%2708+059.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; The Consul during the Cry of Dolores / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El Cónsul durante el Grito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKjU0Vh-I/AAAAAAAAAz8/-IxrEiX_Ne0/s1600-h/September%2708+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253742042304317410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKjU0Vh-I/AAAAAAAAAz8/-IxrEiX_Ne0/s400/September%2708+047.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Mexican Paul / &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El Paul Mexicano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;September 16th is also a very important day for Blake and Karen. They celebrated their second wedding anniversary. We had the chance to go out with them several days after, and enjoyed a very nice dinner at the River Café.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El 16 de Septiembre es también una fecha muy especial para Blake y Karen. Ellos celebraron su segundo aniversario de bodas. Tuvimos la oportunidad de salir con ellos unos días después del aniversario y disfrutamos una cena muy agradable en el River Café.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKGyVIAqI/AAAAAAAAAz0/X4sXOStH1Go/s1600-h/September%2708+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253741552010265250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkKGyVIAqI/AAAAAAAAAz0/X4sXOStH1Go/s400/September%2708+064.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Karen &amp;amp; Blake &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strongest event of this month, and maybe of the whole year was on September 13, our nephew Carlos’ birthday. Our family in Mexico (papito, mamita, our sister Dea and her children Carlos and Bella) went to Queretaro to celebrate and on their way back to Tequis they had a horrible yet blessed accident: while they were driving on the highway, on the top of a 4 lane bridge, a trailer hit their car on the back side and made it turn and end up in the opposite side of the highway, about 40 centimetres from the edge of the bridge. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Have they displaced those 40 centimetres, they would have been killed, all of them, at once. But only because God is good and merciful, He spared their lives and they are all doing well. Dea got a bruise in her cheek where Bella’s head hit her, and Dea also had to wear a neck collar for few days. Other than that, not a single scratch! We are so thankful with God for saving them, we think about what could have happen and we can only thank our precious God for His protection and love. We testify that He is good and He holds us in the palm of His hand. He reigns! Thank you Lord!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El evento más fuerte del mes, y quizás del año completo, tuvo lugar el 13 de Septiembre, el día del cumpleaños de nuestro sobrino Carlos. Nuestra familia en México (papito, mamita, nuestra hermana Dea y sus hijos Carlos y Bella) fueron a celebrar a Querétaro y en el camino de regreso a Tequis tuvieron un horrible pero bendito accidente: mientras iban en la carretera, arriba de un puente un tráiler golpeó su carro en la parte de atrás y los hizo girar y terminaron en el lado opuesto del puente, a unos 40 centímetros de la orilla del puente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Si se hubieran desplazado esos 40 centímetros, hubieran caído del puente y se hubieran matado todos. Pero solo porque Dios es bueno y piadoso, protegió sus vidas y ellos están bien. A Dea le salió un moretón en la mejilla en el lugar donde la cabeza de Bella le pegó, y también Dea tuvo que usar un collarín por unos días. Fuera de eso, ¡ni un solo rasguño! Estamos tan agradecidos con Dios por salvarlos, pensamos en lo que pudo haber pasado y no podemos más que agradecer a nuestro precioso Dios por Su protección y amor. Testificamos que Dios es bueno y que nos guarda en la palma de Su mano. ¡El Reina!¡Gracias, Señor!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-5884740827660602086?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/5884740827660602086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=5884740827660602086' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5884740827660602086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/5884740827660602086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/10/september-come-and-gone.html' title='September come and gone / Septiembre vino y se fue'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SOkMEo9nbyI/AAAAAAAAA08/vCpDX2nYCqE/s72-c/September%2708+026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-1382721724753434748</id><published>2008-08-16T18:50:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T19:26:41.050-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Parish Picnic 2008 / El Picnic de la Parroquia, 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd5BOgHY-I/AAAAAAAAAoo/EYhVdIi2mkU/s1600-h/Parish+Picnic+2008+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235286153821119458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd5BOgHY-I/AAAAAAAAAoo/EYhVdIi2mkU/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008+029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the third consecutive year, last weekend we participated at the St. Michael’s Parish Picnic. This time we were able to fully enjoy it, with Paul not having to coordinate the sound, we were able to sit together during mass and then enjoy lunch and the facilities of the Our Lady of Peace Ranch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Por tercer año consecutivo, el fin de semana pasado participamos en el Picnic de la Parroquia de San Miguel. Esta vez, pudimos disfrutarlo completamente, con Paul libre de tener que coordinar el sonido y otras actividades, pudimos sentarnos juntos durante la misa y disfrutamos la comida y las instalaciones del Rancho de Nuestra Señora de la Paz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we informed previously, this place is used by children that don’t have resources to enjoy other summer camp facilities and graciously offered to St. Michael’s church every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Como informamos anteriormente, este lugar fue creado para niños que no tienen los recursos para disfrutar otras instalaciones de verano y cada año la iglesia de San Miguel tiene la oportunidad de usar estas instalaciones para la misa al aire libre y el picnic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;This year we went horse back riding, paddling on the lake (with our friends, the twins and our new Venezuelan friends), and ate tons of popcorn, cotton candy, and ice cream. It was a very nice day. Here are some pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Este año fuimos a montar a caballo, a remar en el lago (con nuestras amigas gemelas y nuestras nuevas amigas Venezolanas) y también comimos muchas palomitas de maíz, algodón de azúcar, y helado. Fue un día hermoso. Aquí hay algunas fotos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd35acBleI/AAAAAAAAAoI/G44N2pO_bN8/s1600-h/Parish+Picnic+2008+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235284920074606050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd35acBleI/AAAAAAAAAoI/G44N2pO_bN8/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd353agqfI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/Fx6AKx9OJwE/s1600-h/Parish+Picnic+2008+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235284927852882418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd353agqfI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/Fx6AKx9OJwE/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008+004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd36GPNuuI/AAAAAAAAAoY/Wrkx12JwlTk/s1600-h/Parish+Picnic+2008+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235284931832036066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd36GPNuuI/AAAAAAAAAoY/Wrkx12JwlTk/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd36WWr66I/AAAAAAAAAog/ae_httQyS5c/s1600-h/Parish+Picnic+2008+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235284936158342050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd36WWr66I/AAAAAAAAAog/ae_httQyS5c/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235286155678473090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd5BVa8W4I/AAAAAAAAAow/n4AVrIsNjWk/s400/Parish+Picnic+2008++PyC.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-1382721724753434748?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/1382721724753434748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=1382721724753434748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1382721724753434748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/1382721724753434748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/08/parish-picnic-2008-el-picnic-de-la.html' title='Parish Picnic 2008 / El Picnic de la Parroquia, 2008'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SKd5BOgHY-I/AAAAAAAAAoo/EYhVdIi2mkU/s72-c/Parish+Picnic+2008+029.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-7040827024181648164</id><published>2008-08-15T19:45:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T09:45:37.038-06:00</updated><title type='text'>7 years in Tibet / 7 años en el Tíbet</title><content type='html'>Well…not really, but feels like it (weather wise). Today Catalina is celebrating her seven years in Canada. When she left that day to the airport, leaving her family and the comfort of home in Mexico, she told to herself and to her family “it's only for two years and then I'll be back.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Bueno…no exactamente, pero es como si lo fuera (por el clima). Hoy Catalina está celebrando 7 años en Canadá. Cuando salió de México ese día, dejando a su familia y el confort de su hogar, se dijo a sí misma “es sólo por dos años y después regresaré”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With one large suitcase full of books, and papito’s laptop, she came to Canada to study for her Masters degree and was picked up at the airport in Toronto by her friend Mariana (they hardly knew each other by then), knowing nothing about the changes that God had prepared for her. She knew nothing about the horrific attack that, less than a month after her departure, took place in New York and thus transformed everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Con una maleta enorme llena de libros y con la laptop de papito, llegó a Canadá a estudiar su maestría y su amiga Mariana la recogió en el aeropuerto de Toronto (ella y Mariana apenas y se conocían para entonces), sin saber los cambios que Dios había preparado para su vida; sin saber que un horrendo ataque tendría lugar en Nueva York a menos de un mes de su llegada a Toronto, transformándolo todo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While she was packing her suitcase the night before her departure, her nephew Carlos Andrés (3 years old by then) put on a big sweater, rolled a scarf around his neck and told her he was ready to go with her to that cold country (little did he know that you need much more than that to stay warm during the winter). It was difficult for her, because she loves Carlos (and Bella) and they were very close together, almost as if they were her own children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mientras ella empacaba su maleta la noche antes de partir, su sobrino Carlos Andrés (que entonces tenía 3 años) se puso un suéter grande, se envolvió una bufanda en el cuello y le dijo que estaba listo para irse con ella a ese frío país (no sabíamos que en este lugar se necesita mucho más que eso para mantenerse caliente durante el invierno). Fue difícil para ella porque ella ama a Carlos (y a Bella) casi como si fueran sus propios hijos y ellos estaban muy apegados a ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, seven years later, she finds herself still in Canada and is now married to a Canadian. She has become a Permanent Resident, has a good job, is surrounded by great friends (and a great new family, the Nadeaus), and belongs to a great Catholic Community. We still want to bring her family to Canada, so we can all be together, and we pray that God will grant us that desire. We also pray that He will allow us to grow as husband and wife, for His glory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Hoy, siete años después, se encuentra casada con un canadiense. Ahora ella es residente permanente de Canadá, con un buen trabajo, rodeada de buenos amigos (y una familia nueva, los Nadeaus) y perteneciendo a una comunidad Católica hermosa. Queremos traernos a su familia a Canadá para que estemos todos juntos y oramos pidiendo a Dios que nos conceda ese deseo y que nos permita crecer como pareja, para Su gloria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would we (not only her) move to Mexico one day? We don’t know, it's not in our plans. But we don’t want to do our will, but God’s, and we are sure that if it is His plan for us to move, we will move. We have learned that His plans are always perfect, for we trust Him and in Him we move, we breathe, we live! Praise God! Thank you Father, for these seven years of growth and for allowing Catalina to come to Canada so we could meet and be together!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;¿Nos iríamos (ahora ya no es ella sola) a vivir a México algún día? No lo sabemos, no está en nuestros planes, pero no queremos hacer nuestra voluntad sino la de Dios, y estamos seguros de que si en Sus planes hay algún cambio, nos cambiaremos. Aprendimos que Sus planes son siempre perfectos y con un final felíz. Confiamos en Él y en Él nos movemos, respiramos, y vivimos. ¡Bendito sea Dios! ¡Gracias Padre, por estos 7 años de crecimiento y por permitir que Catalina viniera a Canadá y así podernos encontrar y estar juntos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7040827024181648164?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7040827024181648164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7040827024181648164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7040827024181648164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7040827024181648164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/2008/08/7-years-in-tibet-7-aos-en-el-tbet.html' title='7 years in Tibet / 7 años en el Tíbet'/><author><name>P&amp;amp;C</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09138503265339531898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176034484695550092.post-8839544261655053902</id><published>2008-08-09T18:42:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-09T19:10:42.211-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Flowers / Flores</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232687602746520994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49ppZL9aI/AAAAAAAAAnY/Rm3XLbamn_A/s400/Red+Deer+2008+073.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We did not finish our series about Toronto, but we decided to move on. We have been very busy this summer, and we apologize for not updating our blog for so long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;No terminamos nuestra serie sobre Toronto, pero decidimos brincarnos esa información. Hemos estado muy ocupados durante el verano, y nos disculpamos por no mantener nuestro blog actualizado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Monday we visited Red Deer to meet mom and dad (Paul’s parents, David and Georgine). Besides spending time with them, the highlight of the trip was the gardens at City Hall. During summer, the City invests a lot of money and effort arranging an amazing garden. We loved the flowers and decided showing you some of the flowers we enjoyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;El lunes pasado fué festivo, y aprovechamos para visitar la ciudad de Red Deer para reunirnos con los papás de Paul (David y Georgine). Además de pasar un tiempo con ellos, lo más bonito del viaje fue la visita a la oficina de gobierno de la ciudad. Durante el verano, la ciudad invierte mucho dinero y esfuerzo arreglando un jardín hermosísimo. Nos encantaron las flores y decidimos mostrar a ustedes algunas de las flores que disfrutamos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ4-AxII7wI/AAAAAAAAAn4/xJXVtrnbCjo/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232687999959494402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ4-AxII7wI/AAAAAAAAAn4/xJXVtrnbCjo/s400/Red+Deer+2008+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A beautiful and unique flower known as Georgine (aka Mom)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Una hermosa y única flor conocida como Georgine (alias Mom)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232685330388336594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47lYMxv9I/AAAAAAAAAnA/2axnMeXmvgU/s400/Red+Deer+2008+048.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49p3C64kI/AAAAAAAAAng/259g7DKYMUw/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232687606411223618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49p3C64kI/AAAAAAAAAng/259g7DKYMUw/s400/Red+Deer+2008+038.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49qI1eypI/AAAAAAAAAno/JoCi1Q9Zo64/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232687611186694802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49qI1eypI/AAAAAAAAAno/JoCi1Q9Zo64/s400/Red+Deer+2008+040.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49qrvqhvI/AAAAAAAAAnw/CZdTtlVleXo/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232687620557539058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ49qrvqhvI/AAAAAAAAAnw/CZdTtlVleXo/s400/Red+Deer+2008+042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47koqSSXI/AAAAAAAAAmw/RShNmCmORzQ/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232685317627201906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47koqSSXI/AAAAAAAAAmw/RShNmCmORzQ/s400/Red+Deer+2008+064.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47lIgRyXI/AAAAAAAAAm4/8cGGK2Jj6YU/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232685326175160690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47lIgRyXI/AAAAAAAAAm4/8cGGK2Jj6YU/s400/Red+Deer+2008+051.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47l_pasoI/AAAAAAAAAnI/oViqUlr66yQ/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232685340977443458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47l_pasoI/AAAAAAAAAnI/oViqUlr66yQ/s400/Red+Deer+2008+026.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SJ47m3sygaI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/_HqDzQuRbhY/s1600-h/Red+Deer+2008+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232685356023972258" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6xP66yZaI/AAAAAAAAAmo/I0uOe5Te4y8/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+296.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For 31 years the CN (Canada’s National) Tower was the tallest free-standing structure in the world, but last September it was surpassed by the (still under construction) Burj Dubai tower. The CN Tower still remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Americas and a symbol of Toronto’s skyline. In 1995, the tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers and it belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Durante 31 años la Torre CN (Torre Nacional Canadiense) fue la estructura más alta del mundo, pero en Septiembre pasado, la torre Burj Dubai (todavía en construcción) la rebasó. La torre CN todavía es la estructura más alta del continente Americano y un símbolo del paisaje de Toronto. En 1995 la torre fue declarada una de las Siete Maravillas del mundo moderno por la Sociedad Americana de Ingenieros Civiles y pertenece a la Federación Mundial de Grandes Torres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tower is located in downtown Toronto and is 553.33 metres high (12 metres higher than the future Freedom Tower in NY, 26 metres higher than the antennae of the Sears Tower in Chicago, 104 metres taller than the antenna of the Empire State Building in NY, and 229 m taller than the antenna of the Eiffel Tower in Paris).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La torre está localizada en el centro de Toronto y tiene una altura de 553.33 metros (12 metros más alta que la futura torre de la libertad en NY, 26 metros más alta que las antenas de la Torre de Sears en Chicago, 104 metros más alta que la antena del edificio Empire State en NY, y 229 metros más alta que la antena de la torre Eiffel en París).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tower functions as a communications and tourist tower (visited by more than two million people every year). The construction costs of around $63 million (Canadian dollars) were repaid in 15 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;La torre funciona como torre de comunicación y centro turístico (visitado por más de dos millones de personas cada año). Los costos de construcción fueron de alrededor de 63 millones de dólares, pagados en 15 años.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;We visited the tower and had fun looking at the City of Toronto from up there, as well as standing on the glass floor 342 m above the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Visitamos la torre y disfrutamos viendo la ciudad de Toronto desde lo alto, además de pararnos en el piso de vidrio. 342 metros arriba del suelo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219302861237220050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wTJs5ctI/AAAAAAAAAmY/OmNp8k2VCgo/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+278.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219302856435814354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wS30Jz9I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/fWGMc31UqB0/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+268.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wRyfbuOI/AAAAAAAAAmA/irvTdLu1pHQ/s1600-h/Toronto+Spring+2008+273.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219302837826861282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wRyfbuOI/AAAAAAAAAmA/irvTdLu1pHQ/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+273.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wSbN68QI/AAAAAAAAAmI/7AXRpEzlNIU/s1600-h/Toronto+Spring+2008+274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219302848759263490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6wSbN68QI/AAAAAAAAAmI/7AXRpEzlNIU/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+274.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6vl-EVqlI/AAAAAAAAAlw/IMb64_MKoZs/s1600-h/Toronto+Spring+2008+287.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219302085020199506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6vl-EVqlI/AAAAAAAAAlw/IMb64_MKoZs/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+287.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219303531197255154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LL15VrTQ7Lg/SG6w6Jf0TfI/AAAAAAAAAmg/dzTWH1wG_WY/s400/Toronto+Spring+2008+279.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1176034484695550092-7603373753542087114?l=nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nadeau-bonilla.blogspot.com/feeds/7603373753542087114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1176034484695550092&amp;postID=7603373753542087114' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1176034484695550092/posts/default/7603373753542087114'/><link rel='self' type='appli
