Spring is in the Air

Happy Father's Day!!! We are still doing great! We have our "cultural" moments (like when a high school kid kept following Dana around the gym as she worked out so that he could practice his English. He not only had no manners, but now personal space as well. He took pictures with his phone too. Weird), but overall we feel great! We just wanted to share this random picture of us staring off in space at McDonald's. This is what we look like when we don't know anyone is looking at us.

It's been getting in the high 80's lately. May not seem so bad, but when there is no air conditioning in buildings and you have to bike everywhere, it seems a lot hotter. Our face and arms are so tan and it's only the beginning of summer. Dana was asked if she spoke Spanish by a local in the gym the other day all the way in Asia!!! (Everyone thinks she's Latino!)

John's hair was becoming ridiculous and he kept putting off the hair cut do to fear of the barbers here (you should see their hair). One day in class he out of no where decided he wanted to shave his head! He shaved his head when he was younger and he said it made him look like he was 10. But, he went through with it and Dana shaved it off!

Before picture on the left.... ridiculous. The new John is not John. His new name is Carlos Martinez. Nice, right? (He's shaved his dirty mustache since the after picture - to Dana's great relief!)

We've had some fun birthday parties lately. (John's is the 25th of this month btw.) One party (to celebrate 4 birthdays - John's included) was themed 1969 where Dana was a flower child. John tried to do hippy, but only looked Vietnamese, so he went with that instead!!! He got this SWEET board game his friends made. It's exactly like Ticket to Ride, but in America. They even put our hometowns on it - Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Spokane, Farmington, and our friend's hometowns). We're gonna play it Friday. Here's a happy picture of us receiving the game - 1969 style:

We miss our garden. However, Dana successfully planted an herb garden. It brings us joy to see the progress and growth they are making. It's not even been 2 weeks and they've all sprouted! From left to right she has Oregano, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme (yes, like the song) Basil, and Chamomile. She thanks her mom for giving her a genetic green thumb and her brother Justin for giving her the seeds! We'll keep the growth posted!

A Little Taste of Home

Hello, and welcome back to our blog! The past few weeks have been very busy! Language learning has been getting better and we are pretty much fluent now! (Yeah right!). But we can read and write some really cool new words and get around the city for the most part. Dana usually does the cookin' around here and one night we found some colorful bell peppers, tortillas, salsa and chicken. We ate delicious fajitas and green chile cornbread that night. It was kind of like Applebees to be honest. While Dana cooks an awesome meal John usually try's to be productive and wash dishes or sets the table.

So we were walking around our city and found a really cool looking building that we wanted to show you below.

We also wanted to show some random cultural pictures that gives you a better idea of what we see day to day. (Thank you "Russian" friend for letting us borrow some pics!) Enjoy!