Entries Posted in February, 2010
February 28th, 2010
February Changes: Movable Type to WordPress
Just a quick post to let everyone know that we recently moved our whole site over to WordPress from Movable Type.
Why this might be important to you?
The non-geeky explanation is that this will allow us to do more stuff with our web site more easily.
However, there may be some pages or links on our site in the next week or so which might not work as effectively as they should. If you find things that aren’t working, please drop us a line and let us know.
Also, please be patient as we get things working 100% again.
Growth of WordPress through 2007
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February 27th, 2010
Cotopaxi in Ecuador is the highest active volcano on Earth
As well as Earth’s closest point to the sun.
Today, Jonathan and I joined 12 other students from our Spanish school in Quito on a day trip to Cotopaxi.
In case you missed the title, Cotopaxi (a volcano in Ecuador) is the highest active volcano on Earth.
We were prepared this time, unlike our trip up Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala. We wore our hiking boots, plenty of
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February 26th, 2010
Videos of Our Quito Apartment: Ecuador
The three things we don’t like about our apartment in Quito:
- It’s a bit noisy
- It doesn’t have an oven
- It doesn’t have a washer and a dryer.
Otherwise, we LOVE this place.
So, we’ve made 2 videos to show our apartment in Quito.
Hope you enjoy! (And if you want, there’s room for you to come and visit – Hint! Hint!)
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February 24th, 2010
Torpedos de Ruidoso: Our earplugs
Funny story: just three weeks ago in Panama City, we thought ruidoso (in Spanish) meant quiet or quietness…
We thought it meant quiet because earplugs are called torpedos de ruidoso.
So when we were in Panama City we thanked the Hotel Santana staff member for moving us to a room that was more ruidoso (thinking we were saying we appreciated a quieter room).
The lady laughed and left our more “ruidoso” room.
I’ll come back to that in a minute.
While we’ve been traveling, we’ve noticed central and South America are pretty noisy places.
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February 22nd, 2010
A Friendly Reminder
Adam sent this to me today and I wanted to re-share it.
It’s a friendly reminder in the form of a very powerful ad.
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February 22nd, 2010
Pictures of Quito From Our Balcony
Pictures of Quito from our balcony
We got a new camera (which I love) for Christmas from our parents and families.
There’s a problem with the lens (has a black smudge somewhere inside) which mysteriously appeared one day in Panama and hasn’t gone away.
I need to get in touch with Nikon to see what they can do about it (since it’s under warranty).
With us being in South America, I don’t know what they will do, but hopefully they will replace it or have a place to repair it here in Quito. (Wishful thinking?)
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February 19th, 2010
Cuatro Rosas
Every Friday in our Spanish classes, Jonathan and I have to try to decipher the words to a song in Spanish by a guy from Colombia.
It’s a listening and comprehension exercise.
For those of you who know Jonathan even remotely well, you already know that listening to a song over and over and over (seriously about 15 times) is as close to torture as it gets for him.
He’s been singing this song ever since.
I just thought I’d share it with you, so that if you hear him singing a song in “some weirder foreign language”, you’ll know what it is.
I’m a visual person. He’s strongly auditory.
He is much better at this activity than I am. I don’t think it would matter what language a song were in, he’d still be better at it than me.
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February 18th, 2010
Spanish Doesn’t Come Naturally, That’s For Sure
Learning a new language is not natural.
In the category of *language*, I would include HTML, Spanish, business language, and geometry.
This is about my efforts at learning the language of Spanish.
I was super frustrated in Spanish class this past Wednesday. It felt like high school pre-calculus all over again.
I just don’t get Spanish yet…
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February 14th, 2010
Happy Valentine’s Day from Quito, Ecuador
Carrie and I started dating on February 14, 2002, three days after we met.
So Valentine’s Day is very special for us.
We like to celebrate Valentine’s Day by cooking each other dinner.
We’ll be making chicken parmesan and having pasta with homemade sauce, followed by a dessert of no-bake cookies.
Yummy!
For lunch, we went out to a little Italian cafe’ close by here and ate like a king and queen for less than $14 (including tax + tip).
The place was all decorated in Valentine’s Day decor… made it a really fun lunch date.
It’s also carneval (Car nuh vahl) here in Quito (and all over Ecuador – and the world really), so we got sprayed with a little water from the back of a pickup truck on the way to the store today.
More about Carneval in another post.
How about you? What did you do for Valentine’s Day?
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February 13th, 2010
Teleferiqo, a gondola to 13,340 ft. in Quito, Ecuador
A Morning at 13,340 ft.
Today Jonathan and I met up with our friends Alex and Kyra (whom we met at the language school). We decided that it would be a great day to go up Pichincha Volcano via the Teleferiqo.
The TelefériQo takes you from the west of Quito up the mountain.
Alex and Kyra wanted to get there early to avoid the crowds, so we met at 9:00am.
At the base of the Teleferiqo is a little amusement park that we didn’t visit, but it looked like it would be very quaint and a fun place to go sometime.
Tickets are
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