Hot temperatures and hot food!

Well we have been eating great lately. The only way to keep off the pounds is to exercise, which we also have been doing every other day or so. Life is good.

Where in the world are the Davis'?

I love to talk more than I write....so let's see how this goes.



Ken

Sunday night

Well. School is out for the summer and we are relaxing a little before
we head to the USA. Built a bookshelf and bought some beach chairs.
Also we only have 1:39 to change flights in Atlanta so we are looking
at only bringing carryon luggage. Should be fun to pack. I love my
wife and daughter. Miss my friends and family but I am happy and
enjoying life.

Email it

Just posting to my blog by sending an email. Cool huh? We will be in
the US in about 9 days. Yeah!!

iGoogle Homepage

Well, I just decided to make this my homepage. I was able to add the blogger site as a gadget. So now I can post more often. We will see if that happens :)

Happy New Year!

Well 2008 has past. It was a good year, full of LOTS of changes for us, some good and some not. I am glad to be moving on and look forward to great things to come.

We are settling in well and finally "adjusted" to Venezuela....I think? We rang in the new years with an old friend, some new ones and family. They love fireworks here and things keep going until at least 3:00 a.m. The weirdest was watching the ball drop. Compared to NY, we are 30 ahead of them, so we were not sure if we were able to celebrate or if we had to wait for the ball, but we came to the conclusion that you don't get to celebrate the New year on a half-hour increment very often, so we went for it. We missed the snow and warmth from the states, but my parents made sure to call and wish us a happy new year......but they did call 5 hours early and a "LITTLE" tipsy. Come to think of it, I haven't heard from them since. Hope all is well.

Take care and keep in touch.

Love,
Davis' in Venezuela.

Salmon Flavored Ice Cream??

This year we made a tough decision to not go to the US for Christmas.  I can't say that we are regretting it, but we do miss everyone and won't let it happen again.  Either people must visit us or we will visit them.

With that said, we had a wonderful time in the city of Merida, VE at the foothills of the Andes mountains.  After a 22 hour bus ride (it was only supposed to be 12 hours), we arrived at Merida.  Before I get into the things we did in Merida, I need to explain why it took so long.  We left Caracas around 9 p.m. and around 2:30 a.m. the bus was detoured for construction (or so we thought, later on someone said it was to rob us, but nothing happened).  The bus then turned one block too early to return to the highway, but was presented with a very narrow road.  On one side was a 50 foot drop to the highway (definitely the quickest way back, but not very ideal) and on the other side the side walk was dug up about 2 feet deep for new plumbing.  Thankfully, the driver errored towards the plumbing. Unfortunately for us, we got stuck in the hole......7 hours later and three tow-trucks later, we were back on our way.  Thanks goes out to the wonderful woman who opened up her house to us for restrooms, retreat and arepas.

Ok, back to the vacation.  We ended up staying in a nice little posada outside of Merida in Tabay.  We had so much fun as you can see in the slideshow on the main page.  We went to the Zoo, Museums, lots of churches, hot springs, climbing in the mountains, Paragliding, and relaxing.  As you can see in the photos, it was beautiful and we had a blast.  One of the weirdest things was the ice cream store, Coromoto.  They have made over 900 flavors!!!!  Obviously, baskin-robbins has nothing on them.  For about 75 cents, you get two flavors.  I enjoyed Salmon ice cream with a whiskey ice cream chaser.  Silvia opted for drinks only and had a Mojito and a Cuba Libre.  Analee was brave at first to try Avocado and Asparagus, but that quickly faded and was trashed for pineapple and orange petal ice cream.

Paragliding was an awesome experience although it can get a little bit nauseating....trust me.

Thanks for listening and we hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Love,

Davis' in Venezuela