In Photos: November and December

Artic Monkeys Concert

Hello everyone!

Now it's time for the summary of what I did in November and December :D I was going to make a post of each month, but I had few photos of November, so I merged the months.

We are going to start with the pics of November, with this one of the birthday of my boyfriend. It is a little bit blurry, but I love it :)

In the first week of November was the Arctic Monkeys' concert, with The Hives as warm up show. It was awsome!! I ended up falling in love with The Hives, they were very entertaining in the show.

The Hives

The Hives

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

During november I had to work on a pumping tests in Los Andes. This city is really hot, we worked in full sun, with UV shield clothes, with nearly 40°C (104 degrees Fahrenheit). It was very interesting, I learned a lot, but the heat was unbearable!

I also finished Destiny! I am thinking whether to buy the expansion. Well, the photo shows what happens when you play alone in Destiny. 140 Kills !! Insane! You spend over an hour per mission XD

And here I leave you some pics of things that happened during november:

Gin "helping" with the laundry

Beautiful night of november

In late november, I received my Dalek dress . I love it: D

Then came December and raspberries began to appear! They are my favorite fruit and if there is something I like of summer, it's that summer is the season of red fruits! (in everything else, I hate the summer XD)

Yummy!

The first days of december, we took advantage of the nice weather and went to train beach volleyball with my volleyball club. It was very entertaining but it was awfully hot!

I appear here! I'm roasting XD Photo by Clubvolley


Photo by Clubvolley

Few days before Christmas, I went with some friends on a mini trip to Viña del Mar (Viña is around 2 hours drive from Santiago). It was very relaxing and I slept everything that I wasn't able in the whole year! I spent more time sleeping than awake XD

View from the apartment of Pilar

And during the trip we went to a japanese cafe. I had never been in one and tasted very few japanese sweets, so I ordered a degustation of sweets, to find out what they taste like.

All of us complicated with the menu. No one knew what to order XD

In the next photo you can see the coffee that I had, along with peanut butter Mochis. Mochis are the round sweets that are behind the coffee cup. These candies are made with glutinous rice flour, giving them a rather chewy texture. I must say that I found these candies are a kind of acquired taste. I had tried Mochis previously, because I experiment making the ones that come stuffed with ice cream and initially I hated the texture, but as more I taste them, they have been "convincing me".

Coffee and Mochis

Koala cookie, that came with the coffee

In the next picture, you can see what came in the sweets degustation. I already forgot what each one was, but all these sweets had in common that they are actually a little dry. In Chile we are accustomed to European pastry, which is more "wet", so usually we do not find much "grace" in these type of sweets. It was very entertaining to taste something so different from what you normally eat and I suffered a lot eating up the sweet that was shaped like a rabbit! It was too cute and I felt sorry for "kill it".

Japanese Sweets... This rabbit is still in my conscience XD

Eating the Sweets

After the coffee, we ended up at a christmas fair, looking for gifts. 

Photo in the christmas fair: Pilar, cute christmas tree and me. Photo by Pilar

When I return of the trip, Gin was waiting for me ... it seems that she missed me.

And finally came the holidays of the end of the year. I didn't decorate much the apartment, I was very tired and the end of the year came very fast. Still we put up a christmas tree and we didn't have a star, so we use Patrick XD

Our Christmas tree is tiny but we decorate it with a lot of love. In the photo, you can see part of my collection of Caveys. At the top, along with Patrick, we have Christmas Tree Cavey and Vixen Reindeer Cavey . Below,  between the branches is Camo Cave, who use his skills for camouflage.

In the above photo didn't appear, but just one day before Christmas I got the cutest ornament that I have bought. I love the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, so just as I saw this Disney ornament, I bought it.


And as part of the tradition, the company where I work gave us a Christmas box full of things to celebrate Christmas and New Year. I tried to take pictures, but Gin was too curious and wouldn't let me XD


I spent the Christmas Eve at the home of one of my sisters and I could celebrate with my two sisters, their mother, Titín and my nephews. The dinner was a delicious barbecue with many salads. The celebration was very fun:D! A curious fact about Chile is that almost all celebrations are with barbecues, it is a kind of a habit of the country. 

Loooootttttssss of gifts! 

The men preparing the barbecue

The beautiful table prepared by my sister

Cute table decorations

Selfie with the tree XD

The house owners and organizers of the dinner, my sister Ximena and Titín

Finally came the new year celebration. I celebrated with a group of friends at Pilar's house. She made a very nice dinner and I prepared the Jelly Shots I showed you in the last post.

Waiting, hungry XD

The Dinner: The ever present Duchess potatoes

The Dinner:  Duchess potatoes and stuffed Chicken

It was a very entertaining celebration. It was a great way to start 2015!

Well, that's the summary of November and December. I hope this year will come good for you!

At Friday I should post the summary of the second part of my vacations of 2014! It's about Huilo Huilo, a really beautiful place. So stay tuned ;)

Hugs for everyone!

PS: Some of these photos were taken using my cell and edited using the Beautiful Mess app or PicMonkey. Others were taken with my camera.

In Photos: October 2014

Hello everyone!

Now is the turn of what I did in October :D

Some of these photos were taken using my phone and edited using the app "A Beautiful Mess" or "PicMonkey", some others were taken with my camera.

Beautiful sunsets from the balcony :)

Photo by Sebastián <3 p="">

Gin 'helping' me during a cleaning day at home. She hides in the nightstand when she hears the vacuum cleaner XD

I had a lot of work in the last weeks of the month. The image below is a map of a region of Chile, where we have to delimit different areas according to their properties. This type of work is fun, but it's very detailed and it gets me easily exhausted.

I've continued playing Destiny, and  I reached level 20. Saddly I'm finishing the game :(
I'll have to figure out with which game I am going to replace it. Also I'm playing Dark Souls II, it took me some time to get used to the fighting style of it.

Also, I went to two concerts this month. The first one was Calenda Maia's. This is a band dedicated to play medieval music. It's really amazing the work they do because they not only play great music and have spectacular voices, but also, they perform scenes from medieval theater. Another interesting thing about Calenda Maia is that they made a detailed study of the costumes, poetry, songs, melodies, instruments and even medieval cuisine. Some of their instruments were made by themselves!

Part of the Calenda Maia's Concert

This group has made several tours in Latin America, European countries and in North America, they have even participated in medieval festivals like the Calendimaggio in Assisi.

Photo by http://www.ellalabella.cl/calendamaia

Photo by 

http://www.eldiariopanguipulli.cl/notas/NOTAS%20DEL%202010/05%20MAYO/04/calenda%20maia.html

If you want to know more information about this group, you can see it at http://www.calendamaia.cl and I leave a video of one of their presentations.

Video by TribuArcana

The second concert was part of the "Festival internacional de innovación social" or FIIS. This event promotes innovation, social and environmental entrepreneurship. Every year, some speakers are invited to perform lectures, they are global and local leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, businessmen, representatives of various groups, students, etc. In fact, the event features a mix of music and speachs.

My friends :D!

 Group Astro at FIIS

Apart from the music and speachs, there are stands of different organizations, food stalls, stands selling innovative products, etc. And all this is done in the Bicentenario park, where you can have a picnic and enjoy the day.

Finally, pics of Halloween! I was sick this year and I couldn't celebrate as I wanted :(

Halloween Cake Pops

Decoration of the office

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween Outfit

Well, I hope I have entertained you with this post.

Hugs for everyone!