“Mamá behind those mountains is Puerto Rico.”
“Darling, Puerto Rico is hugging us right now.”
“How you mean?”
“It is hugging us with the breeze, and the sky, and the sound of the trees and the birds, and the shadow, and all this green.”
Close your eyes so you can feel it. It is right here and right inside your heart.
Tuesdays of Texture is a super cool weekly feature. You can read about it over here; but the short version is I want to see a bit of your world so link up your post in the comments!
A few days ago we had a work meeting with some people in the business that came from the states. It was one of those very annoying conversations where I try to either just up or get through what I want to say really fast and end up sounding like a broken record. I look back on those type of days and it’s really surprising to have proof that I can talk that much.
Well, after talking our visitors wanted to go somewhere else and I offered to help them get there. I had a feeling it would be fun and whoa. A few minutes later we found ourselves looking at the most amazing structures and hearing the most amazing stories about…
bamboo.
I only had my cell phone camara with me so these don’t translate the awesomeness of the place but just trust me when I tell you it’s the most amazing little world in there. And everything is bamboo!
Those cute huts? BAMBOO.
We were treated to a little orientation about the plant’s properties and advantages and I must say, the ecological value of bamboo should be capitalised on. It’s a thing to behold.
Favorite shot of the day:
Hat off to last week’s cool participations:
Go have an adventurous day. And do remember to share a bit of it with me!
Tuesdays of Texture is a super cool weekly feature. You can read about it over here; but the short version is I want to see a bit of your world so link up your post in the comments!
I visited the Parque de las Ciencias back when I was a young teenager in a school outing and last week I had the opportunity to take my daughter to the same park, remodelled and recently re-opened. What an amazing experience!
Some of the attractions that remained and are still awesome;
Among the new attractions though, is the best animal collection in the caribbean, or in my vocabulary, an air conditioned cemetery of beautiful animals. I was SO DISAPPOINTED to hear hunting be praised to an extent (even though we are talking about hunting that happened such a long time ago). I thought it was going to be plastic animals and then:
All the dead gazelles of the world where in there.
And Bambi, who Baby J of course pointed out.
And basically all the animals missing in Africa? Are right there. All of them.
All killed by this guy.
But I have to admit the rest of the place is really cool.
The saddest part about seeing this in a museum was knowing that we used them.
There is truly something for everyone.
Thanks to all of last week’s cool participants:
Have an amazing Tuesday. And remember to share a bit of it with me!
Brief interruption on Dancing Mondays. We were busy exploring some things like;
Will share more later. Explore something today! Have a great Monday 🙂
Tuesdays of Texture is a super cool weekly feature. You can read about it over here; but the short version is I want to see a bit of your world so link up your post in the comments!
Last week we had a brief moment work-free and manfriend took us to a restaurant a couple of hours away to find sushi.
We had tried before to get to this place but because it’s right beside another restaurant (from the same owner who one day decided he was going to have not one, but two different restaurants right beside each other) we ended up here.
This time we waited until five PM to have sushi – because they open at five PM and will not, under any circumstance, serve you before that time. Even if everything is already running and all employees are ready to serve you.
Thank God the wait was worth it and the sushi was very good.
I walked around a bit with Baby J and discovered they also have a series of little houses for rental behind the restaurants (why stop at two restaurants when you can have the entire block as a business?). One of them had this boat in front of it and there I found the textures above.
Thanks to each and everyone of last week’s participations, be sure to check them out:
Have a happy day! And remember to share a bit of it with me!
Tuesdays of Texture is a super cool weekly feature. You can read about it over here; but the short version is I want to see a bit of your world so link up your post in the comments!
We went to the celebration of Fiestas Patronales close by, saw this and couldn’t resist sharing it as my first Tuesdays of Texture in video form!
Manfriend had seen it before because it’s something typical of the Hardcore Country Life but I had never seen peanuts being toasted! Nor had I ever seen them being sold in a Fiesta Patronal. It was super vintage-cool. And very warm to stand close to!
I thought the peanuts would taste much better being freshly toasted and everything, but was quite disappointed to find they just tasted like regular, non-vintage-cool toasted peanuts.
I have been keeping up with the news because I have an order pending from a supplier right in the middle of the snow storm (Our conversations during the past four days: can you send the order now? No. How about now? No. And now? No. Maybe now? No.) and I’m sharing this warm, smokey post to warm you in case you are in or close to that disaster.
Last week’s cool people:
May you have a toasty-cozy day. And do share a bit with me!
The view:
The food:
The drinks:
Happy people.
Have a great day!
A few weeks ago manfriend took us (Baby J and me) out to have dinner out.
This almost never happens both because our budget doesn’t allow it and because his business is very demanding and prevents him to be out that late. I was very exited because FOOD.
He wanted to go for sushi but chose the wrong restaurant and we ended up eating in Boca Loca. The place is really relaxed and the food divine. I had smoked salmon in guava sauce with arroz mampostiao (rice with beans and spices).
You can see the curious tables they made (they are all filled with different kinds of hearts), the floors – loved the floors! – and the view towards the ocean. I also took a couple of shots for Thursday Doors; the first one from the moving car. Because I was desperate to get at least one of the cool doors that I was seeing.
At least the car was stopped when I took this one. Really liked the color on the windows.
Sharing this with the cool people of the Look Up, Look Down challenge.
It was very cool night out that we enjoyed as a family.
Hope you have a fantastic day!
Here’s a mesh gallery of all the images I got from the Disney On Ice World Tour 2015 show.
I think they are worth sharing because we were in the second row and could almost touch the characters. Actually, I joked that the ice from the stops would get on us, and it DID.
Cool notes from the show:
Hope you enjoy. Linked to this week’s Photo Challenge.
Have a magical day!
There was a creepy crawly area in the zoo. It had another, more scientific name but I don’t remember it because we called it creepy crawly area.
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Someone was very exited about this part of the zoo visit.
Because walking on insects is the coolest thing ever.
We saw these:
I was particularly exited at seeing these two:
But also very relieved that they were behind protecting glass and not running on the floor like the two centipedes I saw a few days ago, one of which ran through my feet. Right through my feet. And manfriend wanted to know why I didn’t kill it. I don’t know dear, maybe because I was so busy trying to prevent it from biting my foot?!
I’m sharing this in the Weekly Photo Challenge and the Look up, Look Down challenge.
Have a great day!
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