Magda & Eckhard's Patagonia Trip Open House

Date of open house: March 25. My former preschool teacher and her husband went to Patagonia last winter as a retirement gift from all the people (former students and parents) that donated money for the trip. She has always wanted to go there. Magda was born in Estonia in the 1930s, and was annexed by the Nazi's in 1941. Her family was forced into poverty, and she and her siblings had to sneak into the potato fields at night to eat. Her husband, Eckhard (pronounced like the Eckerd drug store) was born in Germany around the same time. I don't really know anything about him, besides he is a brilliant physicist and chemist who teaches at UMKC and Park Unversity. He will ramble on and on and on and on and on and on about one thing, and you can understand about 1/5 of what he says (his accent is so strong). He's kinda like a hobbit though.
Anyways, this openhouse was to display some of the 1500 photos they took on their month-long excursion in Patagonia. It was pretty cool, and they had some really funny and interesting stories to tell. I didn't take many photos, but here are some that I did take.

Pictures below

top: Our Lady of Guadaloupe church from the front
2nd: Inside from entrance
3rd: Dad and I after the second day of squash games.
4th: Los Archos on the Malecon
5th: Me warming up 2nd day of squash
6th: Pool from my chaise
7th: Center of building we stayed at with ma, pa, grandma
8th: People waiting to eat at the famous PiPi's restaurant (bad food, all atmosphere)
9th: View of the river and across the bay. You can see the hotel district and a blurry image of downtown.
10th: My grandma "firing up a rocket" or "igniting a cancer stick"

Spring break photos, R. II

Spring Break

I had a good spring break. First week was pretty good. Hung out with David, gregg, busse, some others (cant remember). Shot off rockets/ rocket engines at loose park. very fun indeed. David has some pics and vids of it on google video (if anyone cares) Second week, went to Mexico (Puerto Vallarta, to be exact) w/ ma, pa, grandma. Fun, but limited as far was what we could do b/c my grandma has really bad arthritis, and she move slower than a street sweeper and has the stamina and strength of a sea monkey. Anyways, dad and i had some gnarlius maximus squash matches. he was damn better than i thought. beet me 8 games to 2. Oh well, he taught me some tricks he learned from his glory days of racquetball. Pool and beach was relaxing, downtown was cool like always, a lot of expansion and growth (too bad). got to go into the spanish colonial church this time. quite neat on the inside as well as the outside. went to a small town outside of puerto vallara, called becerias. it was exactly as my dad described it to me before we went, "a dirt, trashy, dusty, boring, little mexican town." but we ate good seafood (or should i say mariscos) there. Then we ended our relaxing sojourn with a visit to my legenday preschool teacher and her husband's open house on their month-long trip in Patagonia last winter. later posts talking about this.