October 4, 2006
Easter Island
Now we are already the second time in Easter Island. The first time when we were sailing from Galapagos to Easter Island end of September 2004, Sabine was also pregnant and today Salina is already joining us by the clean up of Hanga Roa harbor.
We have a warm welcome. We are glad to see our friends again and are very thankful about the hospitality of Erika's family, which runs the very peaceful guest house "chez Erika".
The only shock today is the traffic. In 2004 the horse was the common mean of transport. Today there are already too many cars for the total of 40 km of roads on this small island.
In the school some students performed a local dance for us to say thank you for our TOPtoTOP presentation. All of them participated in the TOPtoTOP drawing contest afterwards!
We climbed also volcanoes. They are not active anymore and you find in these remote craters a lot of endemic species. On one volcano you see how they have cut the Moais out of the rock. Further down you will find them all over the place.
October 18, 2006
San Martin de los Andes
From Easter Island we went with Andri to do more school visits in Patagonia.
After a nice time with family Heise in Porto Varas close to the vulcano Osorno, we spent quite a while in the area of San Martin de los Andes, where Salina met her new boyfriend Piedro in the hostel Puma and a lot of other friends.
The students of the Escuela del Sol also participated in the TOPtoTOP drawing contest:
In San Martin we found again a very interesting eco project for our school presentation: Thanks to the trampa de peces, the lake has 30% more fish!
!?! What was happeening at Dario's birthday at the 16th of October? Here the storry by Maud & Joost Verboven from the Netherlands cycling around America:
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October 25, 2006
Andri is born!
We were still travelling yesterday and tonight at 1.14 a.m. Andri was born: 3380 g, 49 cm, very fast and super healthy!
Pictures will come soon. We are so happy!!!
Please contact us untill tomorrow under the phone number 0056 63 246 137 and after tomorrow under 0056 63 212 705.
Your friends,
dario, sabine, salina and andri
October 28, 2006
1st day pictures!
Here some pictures of Andri's 1st day on earth:
Muchisimas gracias a la Clinica Alemana de Valdivia, Doctor Fernando Herrmann, Doctora Luisa Herrera and Madrona Alejandra Mauzo! Luisa and Fernando we know already from Salina.
... and more:
- beautiful birthday with blue sky and a lot of sun; view from our room.
- just after the birth: the two need some rest.
- first talk between father and son.
- the proud father with his son.
When Andri is not sleeping than he is the clown:
In den letzten Wochen sind wir uns wie "Maria & Josef" vorgekommen. Auf der suche nach einem Spital sind wir weit gereist. Gluecklicherweise wurden wir ueberall herzlich aufgenommen. Ueber unsere Geburtsodysse erzaehlen wir beim naechsten Mal ... jetzt geht es wieder ans Windeln wechseln. Fuer eure Wickel-Tips auf Telefon 0056 63 212 705 sind wir euch dankbar.