Tuluma arrived safely last Friday, a little bewildered and covered with some stinky excrement, but still great! She has settled in nicely and seems to have adjusted to the altitude (6,000 feet above sea level or something like that). She loves to sit out on the terrace that overlooks the garden in the shade of our monstrous palm tree. It makes us all so happy to have her here and I think she'll enjoy winter here a lot more than in Boston!
Benito returned home a few hours after Tuluma, a changed dog, at least anotomically changed. He recovered quickly from his snip-snip and seemed confused by Tuluma (is she really a dog?) but they don't pay each other much attention.
By Sunday, Benito was back on our favorite river walk near our house with Price and Jos. We had a wonderful weekend with a Saturday night sleepover with Noelle and Ayden, the daughters of our friends here who we met through Terry and Nicole through Jim and John (thank you guys!!). On Sunday we went to hear chamber music at this beautiful museum down the street. It's a museum that is the former house of a Canadian painter named Gene Byron -- never heard of her myself, but love her house!
On Thursday Price had his first soccer game, Nanne and I watched. He plays for his school and they played against one of the soccer schools in town. Tough game but so fun! It was at a field with a great view of the mountains and lots of parents there more vocal than me. They called Price el guerrito (little blondie): "mira el guerrito!"
And now it's Friday again. Nanne is over at a friend's house. We will have another sleepover here tonight with Noelle and Ayden. We share a wonderful babysitter named Andrea whose father is American, mother is Mexican. Price and Nanne are sharing their love for the Partridge Family with all their friends and Andrea seems to enjoy it too. So it will be a night of Partridge and magnums for them, and hopefully a cool new restaurant out in Santa Rosa for us. Tequila sunset!
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