Carilo, Argentina (and the long-awaited narrative...)

Here are a few pictures from our last minute President's Day vacation. We headed south to Carilo, a small exclusive village about five hours south of us. Although Carilo is right on the beach, it feels as though you are in a small town in the Swiss Alps or a European Ski Resort. The roads are not paved and lined with beautiful summer homes.


There was a small tidal pool where the water was calm, just before the water break that the kids loved playing in. We have never seen sand like this before. The sand was composed of tiny pieces of weathered seashells.


Argentines love their meat! Lomo mean "loin". Bife de Lomo is a Filet Mingon.


We really spoiled the kids on this trip. It was just two days and they have had a long summer stuck at home with me! They each received animal baloons from a clown in the middle of the shopping plaza (mistake - we had to tote hem around for 3 hours afterward) and went on more than their fair share of carival rides. They loved this little train.


Abe continued to repeat, "Stirring and stirring and stirring a brew..."


This little shop was so cute inside. Gnomes everywhere! I couldn't help but wish that a friend of mine from DC who has a gnome collection (most of which her grandmother painted) was there with me. This little shop almost made me want to start my own collection.


I think that this pastry shop was so quaint, however it almost feels as though something is wrong reading the specials in Spanish - where is the German?



It was too bad that I was there with two toddlers who had no interest in actually allowing Mom to shop.


We also spent quite a bit of time at this Game Room. There were moonbounces, bumper cars and a bucking bull. The mouth of this Nemo opened and closed. They would climb in and wait for it to close before they would go down the other slide on the other side.