Apr 12 2010

Other Turts

Sean

HHIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know Turtles of the Trip?  Well, I got a few more. 

First.  Lapiz Lazuli Turt, Puerto Natales, Chile

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Second. Random Awesome Turt, Cafayate, Argentina

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Third.  Stone-like Wood Turt, Humahuaca, Argentina

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Fourth.  Crazy home-made Soap Turt, Salta, Argentina

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Last.  Onyx Turt, Punta Arenas, Chile

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Hello, all who come this far down from the King himself!!  You are rewarded with this post AND this…

                                         THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!


Apr 8 2010

STRANGE SNOUGLIKE WORDS

Sean

So, hi.  I’m going to teach you words from the SNORG, our king Mungo.

Nose…………………………………………………………………..Snorg

Head………………………………………………………………….Stump

Ear……………………………………………………………………….Flop

Tail……………………………………………………………………..Rope

Mouth………………………………………………………………….Cave

Butt……………………………………………………………………..Stink

Tongue…………………………………………………………………..Log

Foot…………………………………………………………………….Rock

Toes & Toenails ……………………………Potatoes & Potato Flats

Teeth-upper & lower…………………….Stalactites & Stalagmites

Hairs……………………………………………………………………Twigs

Leg………………………………………………………………………Stick

Chest………………………………………………………………….Barrel

Eyes…………………………………………………………………..Gloops

Lips…………………………………………………………………Sausages

END OF SEE-ABLES

Belly……………………………………………………………………Sack

Throat & Intestines…………………………………………….Tunnel

END OF UN-SEE-ABLES AND POST


Mar 29 2010

Penguinj Ahoy

Sean

Today we saw some penguins.  Well, actually not just ‘some’.  Quite a few penguins.  At first  we thought it was no good (or at least I did).  Most of the first ones all hid in their Hidey Holes or behind bushes.P1000301

This is pretty disappointing.  Every once and a while you see a penguin head peeping over the bushes.  Once (actually many times) a penguin was standing beside the path.  I was thinking, okay, that’s cool.  But then we saw a fork in the path.  Standing on the branch to the left was a group of 4 penguins waddling around.  ON THE PATH!!!  If Mungo was with us, that would be the end of His Snoug (snog, his nose).  Don’t ask why, you’ll find out later.  I heard some noises coming from the right.  I thought it would be cool to see a penguin Hee-Hawing it’s head off (that’s right, they sound like donkeys).  Once the penguins started to grow more plentiful, we got better pictures.  One posed with it’s back to us.  Mom wanted to see it’s face, but it kept the same position and started wiggling it’s stubby little tail.  Wiggle wiggle then-PUTHHHHH-SPLAT it pooped towards us.  Then a tour crept up behind us.  Some words I caught were-“this white stuff it is their ****(S word, the bad one, not stupid).  We all laughed at that.  The tour group followed us along the way, guide telling the two peoples stoof, like ‘the penguins that live the farthest walk 4 hours to get to the beach to fish. Not a little dad and son trip for a day, but a dad or mom trip for 2 or 3 days.  Then, suddenly the park is filled with the black and white things.  Not Orcas, Penguins.  Look around if you go there.  Once a sign said ‘MAKE WAY FOR PENGUINS’

P1000399 Then the tour guide behind us said that we were getting close to the  beach, and out of downtown.  Downtown is where Mom Dad son and daughter are standing, travelling and sleeping.  At downtown, the tour guide went away, but not without saying ‘don’t touch, once a big man did and the touched penguin tore off his finger, bone and all.  We met up at the supposedly best viewpoint and we caught the guide saying ‘that bird, it’s the only flightless duck in South America.  We ran away this time and started to leave, but the guide stopped us and asked ‘have you gone that way 300m yet?’  We said no, we haven’t and the guide told us we had to, it’s the best part.  And it was.  You had to watch where your feet landed, there were so many penguins.P1000294 That was AWESOME!!!

                                                      THE END


Feb 9 2010

Saturated Salt

Sean

We saw the salt flats today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you think that was the end???  I didn’t.  The salt flats were REALLY COOL!!!  I SHRANK!!!!  Goob, my stuffed person grew!!!  See?P1000830 Dad also shrank.

 

P1000856 Sara did.  Wanna see her?P2090023 Pretty tiny, huh?  This is mom when she shrank.P2090061 The vehicles that took us out were cool.  You know, I think this place would be a good place for a Toyota commercial.P2090027  –buy your new Toyota Land Cruiser now!-  I mean really!  Salt encrusted cars that still run perfectly?  Which one, that or this?

P1000873 These old trucks are for transporting the salt.  Oh, speaking of salt, look what the water did to it.P2090090 

 

If you remember, in Guatemala we saw a place called Tikal?  It was an old ruin that was full of pyramids.  This is what the salt pyramids reminded us of.  Look, the salt water was so salty, look what would happen in about a minute.

P1000826 Hmmm, do you see a horizon?  I don’t.P1000841 See at the middle, there’s a titch of a line?  That’s the horizon.  This is how reflective the flooded salt flats are.  The mountains reflect!!

P1000853 On the way to the flats, we stopped at a Train Cemetery.  It was full of Thomas the Train Engines, or Locomotives.P1000787   Now we stop, rest, wash off and yawn.  Look-King Mungo rested too, after a long hard day of sleeping.

P1000882 The end.


Jan 31 2010

Turtles of the Trip

Sean

Hello!!!!  Starting from Mexico, I’ve  been collecting turtles.  Not real ones of course, but little sculptures of them .

Here are my turtles in order from favourite to least favourite.

 

1. Amber turtle from Mexico

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2.Silver turtle from Colombia

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3.Seed mama turtle from Ecuador

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4.Wooden turtle from Guatemala

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5.Machu Picchu stone turtle from Peru

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6.Paper turtle from Peru

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7.Seed necklace from Panama

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8.Jade turtle from Guatemala, Antigua

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9.Ceramic turtle from Bolivia

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Oops, sorry!  This is it

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10.Wooden turtle from Costa Rica

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And last but not least,

11.Stone (don’t ask what types, I don’t know) turtle from Costa Rica (same place as the wooden one on my b-day)

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I was going to collect SKULLS, but today I found out that a turtle gives you a long life and that a skull scares evil spirits away!  I got a turtle AND a skull today at the Witches Market!  I get a good, long life!!!  Hooray!!

Oh, and for my favourite one can you see it’s cuteness??  Look again!

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Ugh!  Wrong picture again.

Here…

P1000636 Do you remember the tapir?PB020314 Hello!