disclaimer

all of the below photos from the party were taken by my brillant and talented roommate, amanda. otherwise known as the snowflake artist.

disturbing sweet potatoes

we wanted some christmas cheer in our apartment since it still feels like spring here so amanda cut about a million snow flakes out and hung lights. it just feel christmasy in here. she is now the new snowflake artist on the team. the one of the coffee cups is my personal fav.

this is some of our stash that our moms brought us so that we could celebrate Tday with our friends here. a lot of it has been there for a couple months much to our friends amusement when they openned our cabinet looking for a cup. "you are so american" they would say.

here is the final product. yes! the turkey is wearing a bikini... matt, amanda and i worked for two days to get it all togther and i think everyone enjoyed it. they weren't sure about why we would make something as sweet as the sweet potatoes and then put marshmellows on top...i think that disturbed them a bit, but otherwise they liked it.

this is me and clara

this is sera, david, raquel, suso and irene. they got the good spot. by the food.

here are some other friends. in all we had about 15 friends come...we were so glad they could come and share the day with us.

wanted a change

purple is the new brown right?

You Know You've Had Too Much Coffee When...

- You answer the door before people knock. - Juan Valdez has named his donkey after you. - You just completed another sweater and you don't know how to knit. - You spend your vacations visiting "Maxwell House" - You speed walk in your sleep. - The Nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse. - You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse. - You grind your coffee beans in your mouth. - You sleep with your eyes open. - You have to watch videos in fast-forward. - You're the employee of the month at the local coffee house and you don't even work there. - You walk twenty miles on your treadmill before you realize it's not plugged in. - Starbucks owns the mortgage on your house. - Instant coffee takes too long. - You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug. - You help your dog chase its tail. - You speak perfect Arabic without ever taking a lesson. - Your first-aid kit contains 2-pints of coffee with an I-V hookup. - You short out motion detectors. - You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore. - You lick your coffee pot clean. - Your eyes stay open when you sneeze. - You chew on other people's fingernails. - All your kids are named "Joe" - Your only source of nutrition comes from "Sweet & Low" - You buy 1/2 and 1/2 by the barrel. - You can jump-start your car without cables. - You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee. - You forget to unwrap candy bars before eating them. - Charles Manson thinks you need to calm down. - You've built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers. - When you find a penny, you say, "Find a penny, pick it up. Sixty-three more, I'll have a cup." - -When someone asks, "How are you?", you say, "Good to the last drop." - Your birthday is a national holiday in Brazil. - You go to sleep just so you can wake up and smell the coffee. - You named your cats "Cream" and "Sugar" - Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position. - Your 3 favorite things in life are: coffee before, coffee during and coffee after. - You can't even remember your second cup. - Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London.

dali

yesterday aj, her mom, irene, pilar and i went on a whirlwind trip to everything dali...we started off in figueres, the home of the dali museum...it felt like we were walking through his bizarre mind...it is a piece of art in itself. figueres he is a master of optical illusion, cubism, surrealism and photorealism...he contradicts himself and makes inanimate objects have life. i like that. this one above is a side proflie of himself and also a woman reading. see it? this is a living room but also a face. the nose is a fireplace and the lips a couch and the eyes paintings. this is a ceiling showing dali and gala, his wife, ascending to heaven...i like the perspective and the use of drawers.

this is pilar, irene, ms. joan and aj posing as munchkins in the car of dali in the middle of the museum

we then went to pubol, the town where dali and gala lived..museum had closed but we got to pose for a few photos we then headed to girona for a little cafe and dessert...nice town too.

amanda's poble nou

tonight was amanda's night. she has been working for months now on a photo exhibition of this area of town that we call poble nou (new town)...it is a great part of bcn. it a real community feeling. it is also going through a growth spurt with a new renovation project that the government has recently begun there....her photos were her way to capture a bit of the old poble nou. they are now in a cafe on the rambla there called cafe hemisferio. if you are in/near here come check it out! if not, you can see the photos on her flickr page following amanda's link to the right. amanda laughing...one of her favorite activities pilar, irene and mar...there to show support for the inaguration nicolau, clara and mar talking with amanda jonas showing off elephant. he is even making the official elephant noise. can you tell why he is one of my favorite people? caleb and matt lynn and lindsey me and mar

humphrey

please accept my humble apologies for this post...it has no point except to show a few pics from the other night. aj and i had a halloween party for a few of our friends here in bcn. this is mar and i posing for ya. matt carved the pumpkin. i think it was the first time for most to see that. this is me, irene, pilar and matt. these are some panellets (almond candy) that susanna brought with her. it is really typical to buy from the local pastry stores right now. and they taste pretty good too. i put this one up so that you could see amanda's costume....are we american or what? everyone loved it. :) oh and this is humphrey the pumpkin. we giggled like schoolgirls when we found him at cortes ingles...i mean it's not like we marked ourselves as american or anything...hehe