Comida Mexicana (video)
Our friend Mar came over today. Along with Shari and Shari’s Mom, they went to the market here in Ixtapaluca, and then came back to our house and cooked a fabulous meal. See Shari explain the finished product! 🙂
A Real Kids Christmas Play (video)
Hannah and Nathanael decided on their own to put on a Christmas play for us. The play was performed in our house here in Ixtapaluca. I thought you might enjoy getting in on the premier. 🙂
I understand some of you have had some trouble viewing our videos, so I’m going to try a few videos through YouTube. Hopefully it will mean a little better video quality, and something a little easier to view for some of you. Let me know what you think!
Note: I had some trouble uploading this video, so I’m posting it a little late, but dating it back to when it was made.
Most Popular Posts of 2008
A little disclaimer here – due to technical difficulties, I actually only have information from March to December. Still, this is probably pretty representative of what the most people read this year. Here they are, from least popular to the winner:
- I’m cold. Deal with it. I realize it’s horrible to start with this post when my parents were recently experiencing a wind chill of -50°C. But stats are stats.
- Want to see our house? Go figure – one of the most popular posts of 2008, and all I was doing was sending you to someone else’s blog.
- Reading through the Bible – in Spanish Yep, I’m still working on it! I see Alan is doing a reading plan too – go Alan, go!
- Poverty and Community Interesting, considering this blog post I read recently…
- Doing our kids’ homework I really need to do a new post on homework. I got stories. But this is from last year.
- Kenya, English, Leaks and updates on everything I guess it’s appropriate that an update on everything should be a popular post! And, of course, it included a leak story. You’ll be glad to hear Shari’s Dad fixed one of our leaks last week. Another one down….
- We have (most of) a house! Renting a house in Mexico. The inside story.
- Watch these films (free download!) These are still good. And I’m excited to see they’re working on dubbing them in Spanish. I watched one or two with a friend and tried translating, but I think it will be a few more years before translating is really my thing. Sad thing is, you cant’ get them free by themselves anymore (although you can still watch one or two online).
- I’m coming to Calgary, Canada I was! I did! Too bad this post wasn’t more popular at the time…
- Canadian Christian charity fined $23,000 Here it is, the #1 most popular post of the year. No, it’s not directly about our ministry in Mexico, but it’s bigger than that, and certainly worth a read. And don’t miss the comments! We even heard from someone with the organization that was fined.
And here’s one more surprising note. I’ve included here the most popular posts that were written in 2008. But the most popular post of 2008 actually wasn’t any of these! It was a post I wrote back in 2005 – How to peel a pineapple. I can tell you’d prefer I stick to food topics…
Winter Fun in Mexico City
After getting some advice from our friends the Poulettes, we decided to go down to the Mexico City Zocalo for a little winter fun.
The highlight of the day was supposed to be ice skating, but there was an 8 hour wait. So much for that!
However, Nathanael got the chance to go tubing in the snow. And Hannah and Nathanael both built snowmen (little ones – you’ll see). We also got to visit the market and the Sanbourns restaurant at the house of tiles, so we had fun.
Having missed the skating at the zocalo, we decided to try out our skating rink here in Ixtapaluca today. As far as we know, this was Hannah and Nathanael’s first time on skates! It was fun, but I think we all used a lot of muscles that we don’t use all that often. 😉
So here’s some video and pictures – first downtown Mexico City, then here in Ixtapaluca. Grandpa and Grandma Winger were along, but only Grandpa went skating this time…
At the Mall on December 26
I thought my Canadian friends might be interested in this. I went to the mall – actually, two malls, here in town on the 26th of December. They were open. But they were dead. Not too many people around. Nice and peaceful, actually. Never seen them so quiet.
As I walked out in a parking lot, thinking how different things probably were in Canada, I glanced down and saw a licence plate that said Beautiful British Columbia (I don’t think I’ve ever seen another Canadian plate here in Ixtapaluca, except people we know)!
I guess old habits die hard – that mall has probably never seen such a high percentage of Canadians!
I wasn’t at the mall looking for deals, I was actually getting what I hope will be the last prescribed drugs I need for a while. I’ve been fighting some kind of stomach thing since before conference (at the end of November). I was actually quite sick at conference, then got a little better, then worse again.
Anyway, after several doctor’s visits, I think I’m on the mend. The doctor things I’m probably somewhat undernourished after all that time, so he’s got me on some super-vitamins for a while. Between that and the turkey, I should do fine… 😉