What we have been up to lately

We've had a fun and busy May. Here's what we have been up to in the Southern Hemisphere...

The primary trainer for Boot Camp BA moved on to Colombia so I was able to pick up all the group classes and some private clients as well. It has been so much fun and such a great learning experience!
A couple of my favorite girls from the group classes stayed after one day to help me take some photos for the Boot Camp website and Facebook page (you should like us if you haven't already!). Hint-hint :)

 Using the TRX suspension straps

 The parks in Puerto Madero are perfect for training. So much cleaner, quieter and organized than the rest of BA. Reminds me of home, sweet home Chicago!

Fer and I recently hired a dishwasher to help us out :) Martin is an excellent dish-washer and laundry folder and gets to make some pocket change to boot!

 Sofi turned 15 at the beginning of May and we hosted some of Fer's family for the week of her party. It was so much fun to have a full apartment with lots of laughing, story-telling, cousin time and... LOTS of Spanish! It was so good for me to practice speaking more.

Martin and Enrique

Augus and Fer at Sofi's party, waiting for the birthday girl to arrive

The beautiful birthday girl!

Please dad, no more pictures!!

Augus and Enrique

 Awww

 Sofi and me

Silly photo of course!

Los Goldenbergs

Raquel, Marisa, Sofi, Martin and Fer

Sofi and her friends

 Cousin sleepover (+ Tia Veronica!)

 Locos :)

 Also in May, My mom came to visit!! Since she had her camera out most of the time, I only had a couple of photos on my camera. Here is one of the two of us before we went to Alevear Palace Hotel for afternoon tea. We had a great time and did lots around the city. Hoping that I can pictures from her and will post more from her visit soon!

Honey-Versary

When Fer and I were married in April 2011 we knew our life and schedule was going to be too busy to take a honeymoon until we were settled here in Argentina. Last month we were able to spend a beautiful week+ in Brazil celebrating our first year of marriage. Here are some photos from our time in Rio and Buzios...
At a beach-side bar our first day in Rio. I am a little foggy-looking from the awful sinus infection and fever that I was dealing with the first few days. Being super sick is a great way to start to a honeymoon! ;)

View from our table

 The landscape of Rio is impressive. Also impressive are the immense number of favelas (shanty-towns) on all the hills such as this one:

 Ipanema beach

 My hubby :)

 A look out point on our way up to Cristo Redentor.

Thankfully no clouds at this point of the tour...

Because this is about all you could see at the top:

Fer enjoying coconut water after we biked around the lagoon

View of Leme/Copacabana a couple of blocks from where we were staying

Some monkeys/lemurs (??) on our hike to the top of the military base at the tip of Leme.

View of Copacabana from the top

For the second part of our trip we stayed in Buzios, a couple of hours north of Rio.
This was the beautiful view from our suite:

Looking the other direction:

During a boat cruise that we took to various beaches around Buzios (there are ~16 beaches in total in Buzios)

We rented a boogie to get around the area and to explore the different beaches.
Here is Fer with our sweet "Babies R Us" boogie ;)

Beautiful view of the sunset from our balcony

One of my favorite spots to relax

The freshly grilled shrimp on the beach was AMAZING!

Celebrating our anniversary on our way back to Buenos Aires. Fer, I love you more and more each day!