Merry Christmas---Feliz Navidad!

Here is our tiny Table top tree. We are enjoying a warm but Merry Christmas. Hope you do too. It is the time to stay inside and enjoy each other. Love to all from Chile.

Nativities

This tiny silver nativity is in a container about the size of a ring box.


This is a woven set... looks like some type of basket weaving. It is made out of horse hairs!


We saw so many different kinds of Nativities but I only picked a few unsual ones from Chile.


This is the cute little Nativity that we got. It looks like the the little clay figures spoken of under the Chilean Christmas tree.

Christmas trees in our building

Every floor had a beuatiful tree. Some floors had two trees in the different areas.





Even the basement had a tree. But no tree on the Forth floor. We waited and waited but no tree arrived.


December 15 after waiting a couple of weeks. I took care of it by myself!!!

Look what I found at the Store

This is a whole display of many different brands and kinds of Christmas Fruitcake!!
We have tasted three kinds now... hummm No good! From the looks of things it is big here.

Decorations and Lights are going up in Santiago

Our community center all decorated and a concert being held. Below is another building in the complex.




This is the only home I saw with Santa peeking over the large fence.

Notice the little Christmas red ornament on our office plant. That is the extent of our decorations by the middle of December. This is a little bit depressing to look at.

Thanksgiving at a mansion

This is the North Mission Home with 11 bedrooms and 8 Bathrooms.

This is the dessert table... and only half full it was overflowing. Another table was full of the Turkey, potatoes gravy, yams, Salads, rolls, etc.

We enjoyed the great food, great visits, and beautiful weather. Thanksgiving outside was a first.

Beautiful gardens and a pool

Spring came with a burst of color

Look close at this it is a poinsettia. It has been blooming for weeks..

Tree lined streets and flowers, just what I like

This was one of the first Spring flowers we saw. It was so bright and interesting.

Thanks for coming Birds- We had a wild ride!

Vivi, Dad and naomi

Dayna and Lucy

Only 13 months old but she was so good and happy.

Wild and wiggly big bus rides were exciting but the camera wiggles too.

It was a wild ride !

The Metro was about as fun as anything. Simple things are the best.

I loved the down time at home.

Weekend at the coast

This is the beautiful beach house where we stayed. The swimming pool is in front and the ocean across the street.


This is the "beach", but I don't think you would want to swim here.


The waves would come in constantly "lulling" you to sleep - not!


Our car is the silver one closest to the fence. A bit hard to get out of such a parking lot.

Visiting the worlds largest underground Copper mine

We learned alot as one day miners.


It was so huge inside the mine that large trucks, buses and other machines could drive in it. We saw ahuge rock crusher that could smash big boulders so they could extract the copper.


It is mighty dark in a mine, we had reflectors, flashlights and head lamps.

Independence Day called Dieciocho, Sept .18

Wandering around the park -taking in all the sights.


There were lots of displays featuring antique farming equipment,household items and clothing.

Lots of people, lots of fun--- they really go all out for Their Independence Day.