Argentine happenings

Today is a national holiday here because of ... the Census!  That's right - everything except for emergency services is closed and technically you are supposed to stay inside until the Census folks come and find you.  Being the smart chicas that we are, we stocked up on food yesterday knowing that restaurants and grocery stores would be closed today.  Very happy about that - and, lucky for us, the Census guy came around 10:30 this morning, so no more waiting to be done.  I can't imagine this happening back at home, but I'm sure for all my working friends it would be a welcomed day off!  


Last week my parents visited and we had a wonderful time!  I think they will be writing a guest post so I won't say too much here, but I think a point that can be mentioned more than once is that my parents rode horses!  I never thought I'd see the day.  It was so much fun!  Check out the photographic evidence:

I will post more photos of the trip when there's a post up about it.

On Sunday, Caitlin and I did the hash run again.  I figured since I will be running the McDonald's 5k this Sunday (Halloween!), I better go and see if I can actually run 5k.  Fortunately, I did that and more, even following the "wimp" route instead of the "macho" route (not afraid to admit that).  The McDonald's 5k this Sunday will be my first ever race, so I am excited and ask that you please send me good thoughts. :) Those of you who know me well know that running was never high on my list (it never even came close to making said list), but recently I have been running - and wow - actually enjoying it!  I don't know what's come over me.

Going to check out what's happening outside.  It probably would have been a whole lotta nothing, but as I'm sure everyone heard, former president Kirchner passed away today and Plaza de Mayo looks pretty packed from the news.