1. If you´ve ever wondered what it would look like to have a parade float involving a koala dancing with two women in leather gear, look no farther.
2. In the Carnaval parade, they have people in big papier-mache heads. The kids like to beat on the heads, and then they get candy...because THAT teaches all the right life lessons.
3. Dance review from the parade.
4. Murgistas up close and personal during the parade.
5. If you were expecting gyrations with beads and feathers when I said "Carnaval parade," trust me - there was a lot of that to be seen, too.
6. To go with the gyrations, there were entire corps of drummers - truly amazing.
7. There were also random parodistas and humoristas running around, making scenes - including this one.
8. CAUGHT ON FILM: Marco, KD, Analia, and Dorothea chowing down on some burger goodness in Montevideo.
9. Also caught on film: Dorothea assaulting KD with a light-up magic wand at a birthday party. Note José trying to block the camera with his hands...he failed, muahahaha.
10. My city map. The green spot a bit southeast of the middle of the map is Parque Battle; I live about a 20-minute walk to the north of the park. La Obra is further to the northwest - about 30 minutes in the bus.
11. During camp, Karin and some of the kids worked together to write a song.
12. Juan watching his grandkids play during camp.
13. Snack time!
14. Daniela´s sister-in-law came to teach a basic drumming lesson to the kids; most of them took to it like ducks to water.
15. More drumming.
16. "Che, I´m not out, am I?"
17. Wilma reading the Gospel during the end-of-camp worship service.
18. Karin, Kristina, and KD hard at work on some amazing Puerto Rican culinary goodness on my birthday in La Plata.
19. Here´s to weird cross-cultural moments...my aunt worked in La Plata, MD for several years.
20. What could be more gauchely Uruguayan/Argentine than drinking mate in front of a cathedral? Oh yeah, taking a picture of it.
21. The façade of La Plata Cathedral.
22. A late afternoon walk in La Plata.
23. This what YAGMs look like while learning songs together.
24. Tandil is known for its rocky hills...this is the one that we climbed.
25. View from halfway up.
26. Proof that I....1. Climbed up the thing. 2. Shaved off my mustache. 3. Have lost weight.
27. View from the top.
28. David, our coordinator´s husband, friend, and all around cool guy, striking an unintentionally heroic pose.
29. James praying in the Danish church in Tandil.
30. The large cross on Calvario in Tandil. The hill is home to a Via Crucis in a garden/wooded setting.
31. Our very friendly, and possibly intoxicated, Argentine neighbors in the campground singing for us.
32. Sebastián taking shelther beneath a rather dimunitive palm tree in Piriapolis during the visit of the Minnesotans.
33. Piriapolis after the rain had cleared out.
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