This band has four members. Violin, or fiddle as you please, trumpet, guitar and a very large guitar. They are fantastic. I always ask them to play Lambada. It is my favorite song of all time.

As for tequila, I only drink beverages that have been aged longer than five minutes.

As for the pico de gallo, I have learned my lesson. I love the stuff but this restaurant makes it way too caliente.

Oh Todd, you know lambada is a rythm invented in the Amazonian area. Manaos I think, oh too much tequila in my head now.

The trick about tequila is that the bottle most say 100% agave, agave the cactus plant where tequila cames from, if it doesn't say it, it's not pure. Most 'reposado' versions should have more than three years old and be aged in wood 'containers'. Sorry about my vocabulary.

Todd, hot in Mexican Spanish would be, 'picante'.

I was in Cuernavaca one time at an immersion language school and I was staying at the house of a local family along with two other students. One day the wife is preparing lunch and one of the men asks "es muy caliente?" The wife replies "no, bo está muy caliente". He takes a bit and spews. It was full of habanero chilis. The man, incredulous says "I THOUGHT YOU SAID IT WASN'T CALIENTE!" The woman replies "it isn't caliente but it is bastante picante". What a hoot.

I really don't want to know where were you when you took that picture.

In my living room by the sliding glass doors. I had just taken my shoes and socks off.

hot = caliente
spicy = picante

American English uses "hot" for both. Now a woman could be caliente.

Goodnight ladies.

Goodnight BigK.

Er...okay...don't mind me.

Night Todd, ask for Mujeres divinas to the Mariachi.

I have wanted to post this adress. Pics of birds and animals of Baja California, Mx. It's the site of an American photographer that lives near Ensenada, Baja California Norte. He's making a book about Baja California birds and animals. At the begining of the year we were in the same work team to a special enviromental protected area of islands in Cortes Sea, between continental Mx and Baja California, Las Encantadas.

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I covered you in the first one.

And I covered you in the post I graciously deleted this morning.

I saw it. I have been called worse.

And recently too.

Did I mention I called WW last night? Turns out she has only tentative plans to come back. Her BA flight is apparently for about October 10th but she did make a reservation to leave Mexico on the 27th of Sept. She says she has not done anything definite because she needs money to make the changes. I asked how she planned to do that. She didn't really know. I asked if she planned to borrow from her sister or father and have me pay it back. She wasn't sure. Basically I got a bit frustrated and told her she needed to get it all sorted out and that it was her problem and not mine and she just needed to let me know what she decides.

I also asked her why she was coming back without discussing it. She said she misses us. I said I could understand that but that if we get divorced, we have to accept the fact that we are never going to live together as one family. She said she doesn't want a divorce. I said I might but wasn't sure. She has hurt me very much and I don't want to go back to our previous life only to have her hurt me again. Anyway, it wasn't the most pleasant of conversations.

Kyrgyzstan?

Don't leave us hanging. Are you going to answer the question?

And I will admit that I sent the Spanish email. I did not say anything about the details of her affairs. All I said was that she was not telling him the truth and that he needed to question her and seek the truth and that I hoped she would finally decide to tell him.

bigK,

I do get to see a few of those games on the sports channel here when cricket is not being shown. I don't really want to offend anyone here but a lot of those guys wear shorts that look, well, how can I put this? I am sure there must be another explanation.

You know KiwiJ, you could have worded that a whole lot better. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Pio,
what was G's response to you saying you may want a D? Did you feel better or worse after getting that off your chest? Did she ask or did you just offer the info?

I felt better. She didn't ask. She believes that all is good with the world and that she will come back here and life will be all rosey. I am going to try to call her in another 30 minutes and have a more civil conversation.

I didn't say I wanted a divorce. I said we had to consider it was a very real possibility. I told her I have been very happy not worrying about what she is doing or who she is seeing. I told her I can finally concentrate at work.

The reason that D came up is that I told her there was no need to rush back. I said the girls were fine. She said they were not fine. I asked how she would know that and that yes they were fine. No doubt they missed her but they are doing well. And in the event of divorce, they would not have us together.

DD1 told me today for no reason that she misses mommy a little but not really all that much. She said that she knew if mommy didn't take cre of her that I was going to so she always had one of us to take care of her. It was a strange thing for her to say but I just told her that yes - at least one of us would always be there for her.