The Boys and I

Manny and Miguel came and stayed Saturday night at Hotel le Amy and Sam, sans Sam. We carved a pumpkin, watched Transformers, watched some other movies. It was same old fun. P.s. to those of you finding instructions of the net on how to cook pumpkin seeds, don't listen to them when they say let them dry over night on paper towels. They end up sticking to the paper towels and you have to peel if off them one at a time. So much fun!!

We Saw Frida!!

The day finally arrived when the opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Minneapolis Walker Art Center. Corina, Farrah and I made it first to the Hayden Hererra talk. Hayden wrote the Biography of Frida Kahlo, from which the movie Frida is based. She talked about Frida's life, and I am sorry to say, I did not learn much, since my class on Frida has already educated me plenty on the life of this wonderful lady.

We left the talk early to head on over to the exhibit, excited as EVER to see our favorite paintings. Corina's is "The Broken Column," shown here, and the REAL THING!!!!!!:




It's a little blurry because I was sneaking photos illegally! Teehee! I had to do it as the guards were looking away. Here is a better image found of the internet:



My favorite is "The Two Fridas," here is my sneak pic of that one!!!



A better pic of that one is in one of my earlier posts.

We were so excited, finally, a lifelong passion of ours has been realized, we saw most of her best paintings!!!!

Yay Tracy!!

It is 11:30pm, Wednesday night. I am up late for nothing, got a mid-term due tomorrow. But I am here writing this crap. Haha! Who cares about school and work, especially when that new Airwick sprayer I just bought and put up keeps spraying every half hour and scaring the crap out of me.

I wanted to mention that I had dinner with Tracy the other night and it was very nice. If you all remember, Tracy was married to my ex-husband's brother, making her my ex-sister-in-law. They got divorced too, and now we are a team of hating the Wegner brothers!! Tracy was attacked in her back yard last October and was in a coma for a few weeks. When she woke up, she decided to move on to something else other than her marriage, so here we are!!



The last time that I saw her this spring, she had the shortest hair. But how her hair has grown, and how beautiful she is, considering what she has gone through. Don't you think?



So keep posted everyone, Sammy is gone for a while and the opening of Frida is this weekend. I'll also be having Manny and Miguel over to play!

I'll put the pics up on Sunday.

Camping!!

So we went camping a few weekends ago. The weather wasn't too bad, although I found myself bundled up like it was 40 below outside. We drove up to lake Vermillion, MN, which is about a few hours north of the Twin Cities.

We left Friday morning, got to the boat launch, loaded the boat, and found our campsite. Here it is:





It was a fun time, trying to get the fire going at night, trying to catch the fish. But poor Sammy didn't catch any, and I only froze my booty off. Yeah, here's me freezing my booty off:





And Sammy, happy as ever, although he wasn't catching any fish:

Corina's B-Day Bash!!!

It was Corina's 37th (my lovely cousin on my dad's side) and we started out at the lovely Bennigans, but made our way to the Rush in Cottage Grove. We had fun and more fun, and Corina was pretty drunk by the end of the night! And our other cousin Tina ditched us!



Just in case you didn't know, I have one thousand cousins. My dad has eleven brothers and sisters, my mom has 13. Most of them have more than one child, therefore, I have 1000 cousins.



I would like to do a family tree one day to see where my family comes from! My grandma Rivera told me once, after I had learned enough Spanish, that her husband came from Mexico City. She is from Castroville, Texas. How I miss her...

Anyways, we had planned to bring our pal Rodney home with us to watch some scare Japanese movies, but it didn't turn out that way. Oh well! Happy Birthday Speedy!! (Corina's nickname is Speedy, since her last name is Gonzales=Speedy Gonzales)

I'm Back!!

I've been so busy with classes, with homework and with fishing. Haha! Not really fishing! But everything else.

Sammy and I went camping last weekend on Milacs Lake and he caught two northerns. Here he is.




I even tried trolling for Walley myself!



But alas, I did not have any luck.

So we've been working and going to school and fishing and trying to hunt and rooting for the Packers (well, not me, I'm a Viking's fan all the way), and we've been getting tired! I had the boys with me this weekend, I haven't seen them in a month!! I was getting withdrawal symptoms! It's my cousin Corina's birthday this week. Stay tuned for more pics!