Beach Time 2011!

We spent the first several days of the new year at the beach enjoying the fantastic weather in Mar del Plata. We drank loads of tetere, which is just mate made with cold juice as opposed to hot water. It is nothing short of delicious! Yum and refreshing, the perfect beach beverage. The boys were jealous of everyone else who was playing tejo on the beach so they bought themselves a game. That was the last we saw of them for hours. Tejo is something like bocce ball, in that you have to throw a small version of your projectile to a location within the court and then you aim your subsequent objects in the same location. Whomever lands the closest wins with additional points being earned if multiple pieces land closer than any of your opponents´. This simple game entertained them for hours until they discovered there was a bit of a cliff that was just begging to be climbed. Naturally, I couldn´t let the boys have all the fun on this one so I had to show ´em how it´s done. hahhahah Though I look reminiscent of a fat spider on the wall I def made it up and over. Thank Casey for taking me climbing with you. I finally found a place to climb where it doesn´t matter if your hands are sweaty! A moist, seaside wall is perfect regardless of your hand humidity!
Here are a few pics of the beach and the enchanted forest we visited post one loooong day at the beach. This place was incredible! It is referred to as the energetic forest. From the moment you step foot inside the trees you can tell there is something different going on. I am not precisely sure as to the cause of the massive change in energy and magnetism at this spot because all the literature we were given was A) in Spanish and B) listed only mystical reasons as the source i.e. ancient Indian burial ground or alien, meteor landing site. Regardless, it was incredible to behold the hundreds of enormous trees bending and arching over one another all reaching toward a specific center point, creating an incredible conical shape. Many of the trees on the outer perimeter have grown nearly completely sideways in an attempt to reach this mysterious center. In the forest you are able to balance the sharp end of one stick on the round side of another, then twist it and the sticks remain balance! This as well as numerous other stick balancing mysteries lend to the idea that there is something quite strange going on in these woods!