Thursday, January 13, 2011

As red as it can be.

Two days ago we were walking around Valparaiso when Elena says...

" Mom, MOM! I just saw a woman with RED hair!!!
...........and it wasn't even my imagination, can you believe it???!!!!"


I guess it's ok that she is not fluent in Spanish because she is not the


wispering kind.


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Location:Chile

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Fagnoon!

Our amazing David also found this amazing place for the girls in Cairo.
Fagnoon!!! And art school, founded by an Egyptian artist.

The place is located on the road towards the pyramids and it looks, from the road, like it was built when the pyramids were built, but inside it is just a magical place!


Victoria got to make her own necklace. She wanted onlu blue beads, but the nice lad conviced her to add some color to her piece of art.


Elena and her daddy made this together. It looks like glitter but it is made out of wood shavings and dyes.
(excuse the lack of editing, I'm not using my computer to post)


This is the one Toria and I made together.


Weaving!


Final product.


Pottery for Elena


Horse back riding for Victoria.


It was a wonderful place to visit but very remote, so when we asked the lady in charge where we could get a taxi she said "oh, there aren't any here. Don't worry I'll take you"
And she did! She drove just like the guys on the road! (refer to Cairo drivers)
We left during rush hour which was really bad! And that made us super late, then we told the wrong thing to the driver and it made us even later!
Then Victoria had an accident in the taxi before we got off. To her defense she had asked to go for an hour but we were stuck in traffic.

We returned to a yummy pizza dinner and with wonderful memories of our fun date!

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Location:Cairo

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Walk like an Egytian

Yes, we ended up in Cairo, it was the best we could do. We could have stayed in KAUST until the 24th, but we were packed and ready for our vacation.
The amazing place David found for us to stay had a water park. We didn't tell the girls as we wanted it to be a surprise, and good thing we didn't ......because it was COLD!!!!!!!!!

Our first day we looked around the hotel and took a little swim, it was fun but cccoooolllldddd!!!!!!
The hotel was completely decorated for Christmas which was just amazing!!





Notice that the star is falling. I can't tell you how many times they asked people to fix it, but no one was as worried as they were!





Later in the day we went to see the Light Show at the pyramids.





It was really cool and COLD!
The girls were so funny, they would get scared with the suspence music and weird deep voice from the narration. It was a fun way to see the pyramids though.

It was a fun first day back in Cairo.

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Location:Madrid