Monday, September 26, 2011

Bucket List

What started out as your typical Sunday Afternoon Fire Engine picture shoot ended in me starting a bucket list and crossing off my first item.
Driving a Fire Engine? Done!
I got that baby up to 15mph, survived two stop signs and parked this bad boy.
Number 2 on my bucket list has yet to be decided. But I am thinking it is better to add items to my list when I have completed them, it eliminates disappointment that way.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Merry Natal

We had a fabulous Saltzman family get together in Natal (which means Christmas in Portuguese) in August. There is too much to cram into one post, so please enjoy my favourites:


Eating more meat than humanely possibly:
Gigantic slip and slides:

Silly faces:
Walking along the beach to get lunch:
Eating amazing food in tiny shacks:
ABC football game that only the night owls attended:
Renting a native for the week:
And becoming best friends despite the language barrier:
The largest cashew tree in the world (we can confirm that cashew juice is disgusting)
Feeding cashew tree monkeys (get this they eat cashews!)
Did you know that a single cashew grows under a piece of fruit, as demonstrated by this wonderful plastic replica:
Enjoying our own private beach (that we sometimes shared with others, we are nice like that)
Dune buggies!


Watching the locals fish:
Kissing a shark (this isn't really how he kisses...)
Building sandcastles with the family contractor:
Cavern (you had to grab onto the wall for dear life when a wave came in)

Dolphin watching and just being plain cute:



Team volleyball practice:

Becoming "friends" with officials (aka bribing)
Our house:
Snorkeling in a rain storm:
Enjoying great times together:






Being with family is always great, no matter where you are....so Australia next time?