HEY everyone i miss u all, so well as u all know we went to our campa and was great i loved it so much!! i will try to explain everything as well as i can, but it was something that u can not explain, it is something u have to do for ur self to know how it is!! well on monday we had to get to school early in the morning so we left the house at 6:30 in the morning and got ther about 6:50 and we were leaving for the beach at 7:30 i dont know why we left so early but jorge and nick wanted to leave really early to get on the bus and get a good seat! well i have to say it i was a great idea to leave early cause i got the seats in the very very back it was great and we had fun the whole ride. we had two buses bus 1 and bus 2 i was in bus 2 and nick and jorge were in bus 1. (the people that went to campa was all 7th, 8th, and 9th, graders of our school and we had to pay money about like 500 dollars and a lot of people did not have the money for it and if u did not go u had to go to school and some kids did, i think that would stink!!) well on my bus we watched movies , fly away home and pirates of the caribbean i think the third one. i sat with marifer my best friend for half the ride then with omar then with huass it was just a lot of fun and LOTS of sleeping!

This pic is of me and marifer early in the morning with our great seats!! ther must me somthing int he water in mexico cause my hair is so curly i love it!

in this pic it is Eduardo and marifer in the bus!!This is my one of my best guy friend his name is omar ! me tried cause well i dont think i told u but the ride was 6 hours and i got really tried cause we woke up early to get to school early!me and huass sleeping on the bus it was long!

so well we get there after 6 hours of driving we did stop to buy chips and stuff and drinks but in this trip we were not allowed to have and candie, chips, or anything bad for u and we were not allowed to take ipods or cell phones but yet everyone did take everything i took like three big backs of chips and candie so we could eat something good at night but the bad part was that mom took our ipods so i could not take it! so the hotel was not that great it was like to queen sized beds and and a bath room and our room had tv with sky so we watched two and a half men and movies. i have to say i hated the bath room it was like a small room with a shower a toilet and a sink but the toilet paper was outside the bath room what were they thinking!! but when u took ur shower the whole bath room would be wet because it did not have the shower sperated from everything else so when u were done the toilet would be all wet and it was just really gross. but we were not in the room a lot so it was not to bad! Also we were seperated in to groups and they were colors i was purple jorge was red and nick was blue the group did everthing together like eat, play sports, and look for turtle in the night (i will talk about that in a little)

this is my friend polla and she was on the purple team but she changed cause she wanted to be with her best friend and and eduardo wanted to be with us!! but we are waiting to be called to eat we at all together everday. the food was good sometime hard but good. the guy in the back ground is moe and was the guy that was in charge of everything!

this is saul, rene, huass,and vanessa and we were not allowed to go swiming we went swiming one day for about like 2 hours and that was it for the 5 days we were there. the part were our hotel was the waves were really strong. but it was so pretty!!

Well everyday before the sun went down we would have a talk about what we are going to do in the night or sometimes there would be great blue whales and we would watch them but they were really far away u could not see them that well but one time we saw it jump out of the water all the way it was really cool to see.

me and marifer!

nick getting ready to let go of his turtle we did this every single night i have to say it was one of my fav. thing to do!! but like the last to day the really dum kids would complain and say " do we have to" and that would make me so mad cause they dont know how lucky they are!!

me with my turtle!! omg look how i got burned!! but right now it looks so good it is a great tan! jajajja i look like my turtle!!

nick and jorge with there turtle this is such a cute pic!! we did this everyday watching the sun set!!

and the boys they think they aer so cool but they are jajaj!!

everyone in my school leting go of there turtle!

Me and marifer then me and saul on the day that we could swim we went to a different part of the beach! it was a lot of fun we would go into the water and the waves were still pretty hard but we made like a human wall and the we would stand there and have the wave push u down i know it sounds dum but it was a lot of fun!!

after swimming in the water it was great!!ok well every night we would eat at like 8 o clock and then we would have the time of rest for about an hour then we would leave at 10:30 to 11 at night to walk on the beach to see if we can find nests of turtles laying there eggs and we did this everynight we would walk about 3 or 4 miles everynight we would come back to the hotel about 3 or 2 a.m. i have to say i did get tried but we would have so much fun. like who gets the chance of walking on the beach and 2 a.m. with ur friends and finding turtles and stuff. we would walk in then dark the only light we would have was the moon. for our searches i saw 3 turtles and 5 nests! the most eggs we got from one nest was 138! they lay about 90 to 150 eggs!! i got the chance of watching two mommy turtles lay there eggs and catch on in my hand!! also to touch the big turles!! we would find a lot of died thing also like this puffier fish and this died snake!! but we alway had a great time~!this is my first turtle that we saw!! well he is the story with this one well so we had a break and so i was sitting by myself cause i wanted a moment to remeber and just to listen the the ocean and think and so i am sitting saying please turtle come out i want to see u and all i see is this black thin coming out of the water and i start to to freak out it was about 9 feet from me and i got into shock and so my teacher runs to me and tell me to go with him so she down not get scared! but it was great she came out right in front of me and these are her eggs in the nursery because we moved them they are the size of a ping pong ball this is the turtle that i cought the eggs in my hand i was something iwould never forget!! well also one of our activitys was that we got to see how people take down coconut and so me and saul shared one we had to drink all the water that sas in it then they cut in in half and me and him and it all i thought i was going to explod!! but it was fun!me after eating so much i the

hammock i love this pic of me!!!

Also we had do this thing that we went to this swamp and we went in a boat and looked at the birds that lived there i love it but i was really hard!!the swamp was as big as 20 football fields it was so big i could not believe it!! me nick and jorge after letting the turtle i think good pic!!

me and nick!

on the last night we had a dace and was great saul does know how to dance he is so cute!! then we had a camp fire then we went to look for turtle again!

my whole school i am with saul in the left side!! we had a great time it is something that i will never forget and i have loved every minute and i wish u were all there to see it and enjoy it with me! i miss u all like crazy!

Hey girl HEY! this is stephanie, and i am here reporting from cuernavaca. The flights coming into mexico went quite smoothly...actually a little tooooo smoothly... i arrived to mexico city with only my purse and camera! i had to check a wheel chair and two carry-on, which i was surprised that i was able to do since there was an embargo. so i got to cuernavaca empty handed.Once in cuernavaca we went straight to a posada and ate, danced and sang (poorly). We were all pretty tired and i was ready for bed. we got back to the house around 11pm and slept in the next day. we all went to a cute cafe called Molienda were we had breakfast and picked up some sweets for christmas. Nicholas and Larissa have really improved on their spanish and are speaking quite fluently. I am not going to lie, but mexico feels different. Maybe its because its not summer, but either way i am very happy to be here! Gee Gee is defintely a breath of fresh air! she is so playful and easy going. Xoch is still the same old bitty, but she was excited to see me. If you yell "Go Get Her!" Xoch will run after Gee Gee all around the yard until she gets tired, which is about two laps around. Later on in the evening, nicholas larissa and i went downtown to do some last minute christmas shopping for mom and dad. we walked around and they showed me around to some places i have never been. I got to see where larissa practices the bass and where nicholas practices break dancing-but i have yet to see him bust a move. Later on in the night the three of us went up the street to the church and then went around the see the posadas. There were a couple of pinatas being wacked at down the street and we stayed around to grab some fruit. Mom stayed home with dad because she had a major case of the runs. poor girl. At one point in the night she actually ran to the bathroom claiming "I POOPED MY PANTS!" we were nervous for the long drive the next morning to El Ajusco. We woke up the next day and got ready to go for a christmas eve get-together at Tio Jorge's house. On our way we went back to the airport and picked up my luggage and then headed up the mountain. We got there tired and hungry and so we ate some at Jaime's house and then took a nap while the kids hung out. Later on, around 9 we all gathered in Tio Jorge's house and started to talk and get our drink on ( and by 'our' i mean our cousins ). We finally got to eating around 1130pm. the dinner consisted of turkey, greenbeans, romeitos with mole, cranberry sauce, and lots of fish dishes and some desserts afterwards. Then we proceeded to open gifts from the family and we finally went to bed around 2am. The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and were on our way back to cuernavaca to have christmas dinner at our house with tia, jose, jose, sergio and his girlfriend. We had the same kind of food and more desserts. We ate, told lots of jokes (thanks to Sergio and his many voices) mainly of poop and farts. we were hoping that the evening would last later into the evening but they have alll left and its only 730pm and it feels like midnight... i feel like i'm getting old because all i want to do is sleep. I think its just my vacation time setting in. Oh, and i almost forgot, for christmas we decorated the font tree with mini pinatas, it looks really cute. we have a lot of eating to do, and im sure we'll fill up the time while i'm here. i have not seen any of my friends , but maybe for new years i will go to DF. and i'm excited because there is going to be a wedding on the 28th across the street. i have a feeling we are going to get CRUUUUUUNKED

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How are all of u guys i miss u like crazy. so i am really really sorry that i have not been keeping in touch but i have been so busy so this is what i am doing. so i am in two bands or orch. one band stinks but i have a lot of friends in it and then the other

one is really good but i am having fun in both them. Also i am on a volleyball team and they are really good so they kind of scare me little bit. lol lol. so this is a pic of kentucky so i thought u would like to see it i thought it was cool. This is a pic of me and nick in Texas at the aquirum it was really cool the whole thing was inside but i was really cool!ok i know i know i am so sexy in this picture i think i should look like that everyday. So i have to say out of all of the pictures this i my favorite!!!!

AS U CAN SEE ME AND NICK WERE REALLY BORED REALLY REALLY BORED!! mom got us gugles for swimming and me and nick wanted to wear them. This year we have gotten a lot of flowers in the yard here are just a few!!

ok i dont know if mom told u about they dude that i coming to live with us he is so funny and he is are best friend his name is jorge and he is 14. he is moving in with tommor monday!! so that will be so much fun u guys would love him. So everything here is very exiting but with jorge coming it will be better i think but i miss u all so much~~~~!

love

larissa

I dont think this blog is workin?

Well it seens like no body wants to blog but ill keep it goin. OK lets see ummmmm ummmmm ohhhhh ohh i know i cook suhi today mmmmmmmmmmm. i did it for ingles even though i dont know what that has to english. any ways we made it with Philly cream cheese cucumbers and this thing that looks like crab legs alredy pulled out its kind of like string cheese it tastes nothin like it but it is flimsy and peels ez. OK now what ummm umm well i had chicken wings today made by mom aka taco mom. What else ooooooooohhhhhhh jorge is going to live with us on monday thats exciting i guess. Today is day of the dead we made a nice altar for u gringos including me (decoraded table) We put candles flowers sugar skulls wine jello ohhh that reminds me i want jello bye....

Wazzzz up

Hey the great mexico experiment is ok. Dad is has an addicion to sweets pan dulce as im lossing my taste for sweets. Except for some candies. Gee Gee aka poddle puppy we think is difentily pregnat. Xocil???? what ever is having a fun experiment off lease mexican style off lease no rules. Larissa seems like she never left Pitt. She still is on the computer as much talks on the phone as much its like the same old same old. Mom is happy she loves it hear but still has a cleaning iration like our house has been trashed like its a bit messy but no comparision to our house in pitt. Over all its good and good ill keep u updated talk 2 u later