MEXICO

hi i only have a minute because we are so busy with the mural but i just wanted to say thanks to everyone for calling on my birthday. we went to some hotsprings in the state of Morelos it was fun. not warm water at all but still fun. for our anniversary we went to this amazing restaurant in coyoacan called the danzantes and we had a private room! i couldnt believe it miguel planned everything it was just perfect. we ordered a bottle of wine to celebrate and we had no idea how much it would cost. lets just say that was the most expensive dinner either one of us has ever had. definitely worth it though. then this saturday for miguels birthday we went to Puebla and ate cemitas and went to Africam Safari. this time we went in my friends car so we got to stop and basically be face to face with tons of free ranging animals. giraffes, elefants, tigers, you name it we saw it right up close. we went on a small speed boat in the lake there and then later on that night we went to cholula for dinner. (i will explain more about what all these places are later). well it was great. it was such a fun week. take care, i will ask miguel to write if he has some time today so he can give a better description. love you all, char

I dont know if you guys know but I been doing Capoeira here in Mexico, well this past weekend the school that I go to had their opening inaguration party and they had a 3 day Capoeira worshop. they invited mestre Cobra Mansa who is very famous and knew a lot about it. We had 5 hour movement clases and in between the teachers showed us a documantary and they Capoeira mestre gave a whole presentation about birimbaus( an instrument that is used in capoeira that makes a sound like woa woa woa something like that) Even though Charlotte didnt take tha whole worshop she attended the birimbau presentation and we were so lost because the teacher was speaking in potugees and well we could understand anything, well just a little but it was very interesting because the teacher had just gone to angola in africa and he did a study of the other types of dance forms they do in those towns and how it realtes to the brazilian capoeira. Well it was all very much fun exept for my back that is swollen from all the exercise. Well right now Iam doing all the grocery shoping and charlotte is in her painting class. We wiil write some more later take care con mucho amor- miguel

well, miguel auditioned for the Amalia Hernandez Folklorico teacher program and he was accepted! He starts next week. its a 2 year program and he will learn alot of the dances that the company does. when he leaves, if he wants to he will ba able to get a job teaching folklorico basically anywhere he wants too. he also enrolled in some dance classes at the UNAM to stay in shape. He is relieved that he finally made a decision and is going for it. I am starting a mural on tuesday of next week. its going to be in someones house. they are making a club inside of their house and my friend and i are doing a huge continuous mural throughout the entire club. we have 6 weeks to finish it so i hope we can do it. as soon as we get some pictures i will post them. i started taking pilates for my back. i like it alot and hopefully it will help. Im actually on my way over there right now. so ill be sure to write later maybe miguel will come and write a blog. take care everyone. dad tell joe we said happy birthday and please say hi to the family. love, char

i just got 2 more pictures framed so ill get pictures of them so you can all see. i have been painting alot and working on designs for the mural. we are really excited. supposedly we have 6 weeks to finish it instead of a month so thats a relief. we will probably start sometime next week. we already have our design and the colors and everything we just have to make it look pretty so we can show the people. the huevona site just keeps getting cooler. we have shirts and wifebeaters now so mom you better order one. haha just kidding. they look really good though. later this week you will also be able to check out some photos of miguels hip hop class. we are trying to put up a video too but its a little tricky. we just recieved a letter concerning miguels visa basically letting us know we were just supposed to wait. big suprise. what did they think we were doing? well, anyways talk to you all soon. love, char

hey everyone i just wanted you to all see the great job my dad did redoing the huevona site. you can get to our blog through www.huevona.com also. talk to you all soon. love,char and miguel.

this whole week i think the earliest we have gotten out of bed has been about 2pm. I guess its the weather or something that is just eating at our energy. Or its the fact that we have just finished watching season 5 of 24. Its soooo good! Well, other than that its our normal lives, im painting and miguel is dancing and teaching. Ill send more pictures soon. Take care miss you all so much I hope you are all planning on a trip to come out and visit us. love,char

Hey Charlotte is writing in the other computer at the same time as me, we are writing a blog at the same time, ha ha. Yes we have been here for a year now and it seems like we are barely fineshed traveling. We have been trough so much this past year, yesterday we were talking about how we feel like it´s been a lot of experiences and how when we were traveling we got to do things that we were never expecting to do, like that time when we were in Lagunas de Chacagua and Charlotte asked me to go with her and we followed a group of people and we ended up freeing some sea turtles and we were just amazed by it, and even though we dont have any pics of that event it´s still so alive here within us. So now we are trying to look for jobs and do all that fun stuff, and well litle by little we are getting a few jobs. Iam teaching Hip Hop at the school where we practice Capoeira, and now and then I do modeling for art calses, and Charlotte is getting a lot of people interested in her tutoring, she is going to start a conversation class and will see what else. the time we have been here its been a little hard for us because we wish we could see you guys more often, you know go by and eat something from your fridge or just watch a movie, or talk , and to me it´s different to just talk on the phone than really talk in person and I think it´s like that for everyone, well in simple words I miss you guys and hope to see you sometime in the near future, At course I could never feel lonely beacuse I have my favorite person in the world, Charlotte, and may I say she is great to be with and be around and talk to, at least there is someone here that I could really conect with in many levels. Well take care everyone and we will post some pics soon, Con mucho amor y cariño Miguel.

hi everybody!!! yesterday was one full year for us in mexico. what did we do to celebrate you ask? ummmm.... work. we also ate soup and tostadas. we didnt realize it was such a special day until one in the morning. Im tutoring english to different people and miguel is teaching break dancing. its cool i have some new paintings im working on so ill send some pics soon. wow i cant believe its been a whole year. i know ive been back to l.a. but the visits were so short they barely count. part of me feels like ive been here for five years already and another part feels like we just got here. we have just been through so much this past year i cant believe it. all the things we have seen and experienced its just way too much to grasp. well, hope everyone is doing well. dad i wish i could go see eddie with you. everyone we miss you mucho and hope to see you soon. love, char(and miguel but he is writing his own blog right next to me)