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Some random photos over the last few months

Leo....my student wins 1st place at BSQ idol night!  Javier behind and Ramon to the right

The weekly fruit truck....Carla gets her fill

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Que linda!

Tia Cris and La Mami Maruja....lot's of love....

Ramon with Ramon

Ramon, Mafe and Carlita

Carla waiting to board the flight to Cali....from Pasto

Diana, Hector, Isa

Maria and her coach Alex from Calgary.......he came down to see her run in the Colombian nationals.  Maria ran her fastest 10k since having kids!  Guess she'd better keep listening to her coach!

Maple and Japanese maple leaves from Deb's garden

Another race, another trophy

Happy 50th papa

Quick trip to Salmon Arm

Uncle Skip celebrates his 55th

Flying over the Panama canal.....East side, Colon

Skip's new tank

Mom and daughter hadn't seen each other for about 4 years.

Great Grandma looking very stylish

The quilt ladies

The view from great grandma's window

Flowers from Clifford

Rocky Racoon....in Don and Deb's yard

Dinning out at the Picadilly

Hadn't seen Julie for over 10 years!

Great grandma's sidekick

Don's Halloween sidekick's

Gordon is almost skinny!

Daddy's girl

Ready to fly back home with bellies full of chicken wings and calamari.  Great to have finally met Erin!

Who's catching up to who here?

4 flights to get to Kelowna and 4 more back, including a red eye flight....but it was well worth it to see everyone!

Birthdays.....

Carlita turns 4

Dad turns 50

Maria turns 42......Ramon has to wait until Dec 30 to be 6

Sept-Oct ramblings....

El Recreo 10k....Maria made it into the top 3, instead of just the top female in the masters catagory.

Beside Ecuador's top female runner....Diana Landy

Famous kids

Smile dad....it won't hurt that much....ya right...I just turned 50

Carla's latest hair design

just hangin' at home

Chef Laura Lee's famous apple cobbler.....only lasted 2 days

with gramita

help grandma maruja

scrambling on Pinchincha

with papi mon

when i grow up....

Cyclists who stayed with us last year photographed an entry in the cyclists log at the Casa de ciclistas in Trujillo Peru.  Back in 99.....don't we look young!  Lucho the owner, Maria, Volker and Steve.  When we biked from Pasto Colombia to Arica Chile

Hiking above Quito....note the airport in the background....due to be closed in a 1/2 and turned into a park

cruising the Chaquinan

biking with Javier to Antisana base camp at about 4500m

Parque La Armenia.....about 10k from home

September fires

The view out the front door a few days earlier....looks like Kamloops! Normally the grass and the other side of the canyon is all green! on

Note the helicopter above....

Wild fires infront of our place in mid september

An extremely dry summer.  This one jumped the river below and came within 200m of our house.  We were saved by the fact that a municipal plant nursery is right in front of us and they have water tankers that they dispatch throughout the city.  The firemen were on the other side.

Carla stands up for herself