brasil pre xmass

our trip part one -

brasil was beautiful.

this is the portion of the trip after christmas and before new years.

the house


gio and i on the side porch



seu valmour



carmela


gio & seu valmour



north side of papagaio looking at florinapolis


hike on north side of papagaio






surfer beach - new years eve














bay two different times of day

happy holidays

hello from brazil!

photos will come later.

gio and i had a long series of flights to get here but everything went well---- except for the half dozen screaming children on the last flight from sao paulo - but the flight attendance were super great and gave gio xtra peanuts: that is right peanuts on an airplane who would have thought....

we ve been here for three days now and we re having a wonderful time.
we leave in a few minutes to drive four to five hours north west to the town of gio s grandmother- lages

then we leave on tuesday for the beach until the second of jan.

best wishes to all

jena

ps sorry about the punct. i am typing on a portugese keyboard... it s strange.

SAM SUCKS! aka happy halloween

sam you know why! how could you have left us here? you took all the halloween spirit with you!!!!! i only went to three haunted houses this year! how pitiful is that?




we did have a party on halloween night, we were all ready to scare some kids! i wanted to hear screaming!

we recieved less than a dozen kids this halloween.

last year the streets were swarming with children, but we were cold this year and as i said before sam took the halloween spirit with him! and i bet he's happy about it too!







and on another note:



and another another note:


skpye
cathy's getting it so we can chat overseas calls with out the high costs.

so i am putting this out here for all my far off friends.....canada.....scotland???? would you like to skype?

holy moley

well, a year has passed since pondpatrol.com started
september 06 is its anniversary.
in the past few weeks we've hung the photo show at st.marks, gio has been interview by the onion, 5280, and the westword interviewed both of us (i'm the editor/semstres for pp. oh yea and "driver")


last nite was the closing party for the art show; which has sold pretty darn well.
for the party three bands played.

my favorite - porlolo was up first,then the josh novak, and followed by the greatest hits band.

japanimplosion was on site silkscreening t-shirt with a pondpatrol design that they came up with.

over all the nite was a sucess.

this weeks episode of pp is the party review.
and photos that carmela took.

if you'd like to see the interview in westword (for you that aren't from d-town its the city paper)

http://www.westword.com/Issues/2006-09-28/news/news.html

look whose coming for dinner

i was getting some groceries at whole foods in cherry creek and i saw a lady with a crate of kittens...... do you see where this is going?

i played with the kitties for a few minutes,,,, there even was a female kitten that had sevens markings..........i went in to do my shopping and came out and all the kittens were still there.

the kitten lady had been at a shelter that morning and these were the kittens next on the chopping block.......so ......here she is with a crate of kittens.....

and i am pleased to introduce sevens new friend and companion
chu-chu


the boys are getting along super

another day off

most of our days off and little trips out of town as of the last year are really pondpatrol missions.




this is a great situation most of the time, and today was one of those days. a perfect compromise.
we headed towards boulder late this morning to go to eldorado springs area - we ended up a few miles east of 90.
we hiked up half a mile or so and found the area gio was hoping for - a clearing that looked out onto the foothills in the background.



in the moment of shooting p.p. i hardly notice the time go by... but i did get a little crispy today!
we were near a main path that a lot of boulder business lunch time walkers seem to frequent. lots of comments were made.



two women walked by - the comment was "oh look at them playing with their dolls!"
i would like to officially say that they are gio's dolls - he just lets me play with them when he's around!







ok....if you look real closely you can see the ants from the ant hill that gio parked the dolls on top of crawling all over the boots...... not to long later the ants were all over these poor boys!


after two and a half hours in the sun we were ready for the second half of the day!
we weren't sure if we were going to venture over to eldorado springs pool or to boulder creek - but we came prepared with tubes for floating!
we ended up at boulder creek, we floated for a little more than an hour. we didn't do the rapids float due to the cold water and it's effects on o brasilerio. but floating in the tube with the sun shining down on us - me soaking in the rays - gio staring at fishys & shiny things was perfect!

last stop in boulder? but of course the hot dog stand that has veggie chicago dogs!



all in all a great day off!