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It’s a Family Affair en America del Sur

The last 2 months have been crazy! We have had 11 guests, mostly my family and we went on a trip to Colombia to meet up with Ian’s family. We are exhausted!

It all started with an incredible and memorable 4 days shoot with a show you all know and love. More on that in a few months! SORRY!

Following this, my oldest brother Andrew, sister in law Shira and two nephews Zachary and Spencer came to stay with us! It was so cool and different having the WHOLE house full. It was a great way to kick off the Udin Argentine tour.

We had a few days of yucky weather but we still got out and did everything we wanted. We even went on a hike with the boys which was awesome and they killed it! Their last full day, we took them to a beach Ian and I had never been to called “playa sin viento” which means beach without wind, ha imagine that. Really though, NO WIND and just around a corner, our favorite beach was pretty windy. Glad we found it at the end of the summer... Anyway, the kids went kayaking, we laid on the beach and overall had a great time!

Just a few days later my other brother Eric and sister in law Diane, came to stay with us and again, weather wasn’t the best so no beach time for us but we still managed to bring them there! Eric, having never left North America was on his first out of continent trip of his life so Ian and I had to make sure this visit was well worth it! We went to awesome restaurants including La Salamandra Pulperia, omg is this place amazing, we went to the beach at night to see the amazing Patagonian stars which was pretty awesome having the beach to ourselves (seen below) and even had them drink fresh water from the earth. With just 2 full days in Bariloche, we had to cram everything in and I think we left them with new amazing memories to last a lifetime!

Next up was my parents staying with us for about 10 days so this visit we knew we could spread a few things out since we had the time. We also wanted to go on the 7 lakes drive which Ian and I had already done with Ian’s aunt and cousin, but crazily. (we did it all in one day!)

With my parents we took the 5+ hour journey through the 7 lakes and stayed in San Martin de los Andes, an amazingly cute beach town at the end of the drive. Throughout the ride, every single sight was unbelievable. On our way back home to Bariloche, we stopped for lunch in Villa La Angostura right on the water. Their entire stay, we had impeccable weather! Sunny, hot and not a cloud in sight. I can’t say the same for the previous 3 weeks, sorry! I loved having my entire family here all within a few days of each other and I miss them terribly!

The day after my parents went back to NY, Ian and I flew to Buenos Aires and this place is something else. Though we spent 2 weeks there prior to Bariloche, we still managed to enjoy new adventurous things of this city. Our main reason for going to BA was for Lollapalooza!! 2 days of music, culture and food! What more can you ask for!? We saw a few bands that we had already seen and some new. Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, Alabama Shakes (my fave from the 2 days), Mumford and Sons (Ian’s fave), Of Monsters and Men, Eminem, Florence and the Machine, Noel Ghallagher’s High Flying Birds and more. It was so awesome to see these artists in Argentina! The funniest thing to us was hearing the Argentine accents singing the songs we sing back at home.

After about a week in BA, we flew to Colombia to spend about 10 days with Ian’s parents, sister and her boyfriend. What a whirlwind of a trip that was! 3 days in Bogota where 2 of those days I got hit with altitude sickness (this place is 8,000 ft above sea level!) Still an awesome city. Then we flew to Periera which is the coffee region of Colombia. Here we took a tour of a coffee plantation and we were able to see the entire process of growing coffee to then knowing what good and bad coffee tastes like! 1 year ago, if you asked me to have some coffee in general, I would have likely turned you down.

Look! It’s me holding coffee cherries!

We also took a hike in Periera among these awesomely tall wax palm trees and about 1,000 cows just sitting and mooing right as we walked past them. So cool. Our last three days, we went to Cartagena! This was my favorite of the three, despite the heat and humidity of this place! The colors of Cartagena were amazing and reminded me a bit of New Orleans even though I’ve never been and Ian’s parents said it reminded them of Cuba with the colors. Our last day in Colombia/ Cartagena we had no plans so Ian’s dad arranged for us to take a boat out to the Rosario Islands.

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Suited up, off we go on the boat. After about 45 minutes of driving on the Caribbean Sea, the Skipper Eddie asks us if we want to go snorkeling. UMM, sure... I slowly get the flippers on and the mask with that tube thing on to then take the flippers off, I was a tad nervous. I get in the water and the heavy breathing ensues. After I calm down and ignore the fact than I am in the middle of an enormous body of water, I take Ali’s hand and put my head under the water to look.

Check us out! We are in the middle of the Caribbean Sea!

HOLY SH**!!!!

I assume many people have done this before but excuse me for this being my first time. WOW! What a sight!! This water was clear and from above you see turquoise blue and dark blue but under water is a whole new world (wrong movie). The coral and fish were amazing and so cool and even though we weren’t equipped with waterproof cameras, I will never forget what that looked like!

What an awesome trip and now back at home in Bariloche among the lakes and mountains, it’s hard to have a bad day.

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A 3 day coffee rush in Zona cafetera

We were pretty happy to leave steamy Cartagena behind, as we took a flight inland to Pereira with budget airline VivaColombia (where we both had to wear a fair portion of our clothes in order to pass the carry-on baggage allowance!), one of the three cities which make up Colombia's 'coffee triangle' or zona cafetera. After a night in Pereira we were ready to get caffeinated, so we hopped on a bus and headed for the lush, green, coffee-plant-laden hills, deciding on the pretty little hilltop village of Salento as our base. A jeep taxi (they call them Willies locally) brought us to our lovely eco-farm hostel La Serrana, perched on a hillside around a mile out of town. If we hadn't have felt like exploring the area we could have easily stayed here, swung in hammocks, watched the incredible rolling clouds and hills, and chatted with a local inquisitive pony (we christened him Enrique). In fact, we did just that for our first afternoon! WILD COFFEE But we weren't in Colombia's zona cafetera for hammock time, we were here for coffee, so the following day we decided to have a bit of an adventure. Rather than taking one of the (many) local coffee finca/plantation tours, we opted for a 4 hour hike to a (not very nearby) sustainable, organic 'wild' coffee farm called Sacha Mama. Our gamble to step away from the beaten track paid off as our day at Sacha Mama turned out to be one of the top experiences of our entire trip so far. The scenery on the way was beautiful undulating hills, broken by the occasional dairy farm or coffee finca. Our route varied wildly, from single track road, to track, to path, to hillside scramble, and the only directions we had to follow were the occasional 'SM' letters spray painted on trees or fences. We walked through bullock-infested fields, passed local workers panning the river for gold and began spotting some impressive birdlife. We arrived at Sacha Mama in a breathless state at around 11.30am...coffee time! Sacha Mama turned out to be a simple smallholding run by Pedro and his wife. On arrival, they invited us into their home (which they had built themselves), where we sat in their open-air living room, gazing out into their garden and discussing local birds and coffee politics as we sipped some of their delicious coffee. The visit wasn't for the faint-hearted: neither Pedro nor his wife spoke a word of English, so we really had to dive in with our Spanish and give it a try. After coffee we (for it was just the two of us on this tour) headed out to see the farm, wandering beneath a canopy of wax palms, macadamia and other trees, beneath which the coffee plants grew. These were not the regulated, neat rows of coffee bushes we had seen on nearby hillsides, instead lone coffee plants had grown into small trees, and as we passed them, Pedro pulled down the branches so we could pick the juicy red berries. He explained that coffee is a shade plant which needs time, and the shelter and companionship of other plants. Here, the coffee lives in harmony with the other vegetables and plants which are grown. After an hour wandering the hillsides, collecting berries, trying the odd windfall fruit and seeing dozens of beautiful butterflies, we headed back to the farmhouse, where we rolled the berries through a hand-cranked skinning machine, before leaving the beans to ferment and heading off for a simple but delicious lunch, made from fruit and vegetables from the garden. In the afternoon Pedro showed us beans just like the ones we picked, which had been drying in the sunshine for a week or so. We collected a few handfuls of pale, dried beans and headed up the opposite hillside, eventually coming to a shack on the hillside which contained, bizarrely, an entire cafe, complete with myriad different coffee machines, a counter and a till! Pedro explained to us that, in the past, he had run a coffee shop in Salento but now all of his coffee was kept for visitors...but he still had all the café paraphernalia, so he keeps it up here! After lighting a gas hob, a small toasting contraption was put on the flame and the beans we had brought along were dropped in. After a while, the toasting smell turned to coffee smells and the beans darkened, till eventually they were ready. Pedro hauled them out and asked us to take them outside and spread them on a tray so that 'the wind could cool them down'. Finally, our coffee bean journey was complete as Pedro scooped up the beans we had roasted, ground them up and made us a completely delicious cup of coffee, which we enjoyed in near silence, to a backdrop of Italian opera which played on the stereo in the 'café' atop the hill. We had made the journey from bean to cup, and, as we ambled our 4 hour journey through the hills back to the hostel, we reflected on an incredible coffee experience. Our other days at La Serrana were spent enjoying the delicious evening home-cooked meals and hanging out with other travellers around a large communal fire at night. We also wandered around Salento, enjoyed amazing coffee at Café Jesus Martin, and took in the long but incredibly worthwhile day hike through the Cocorra Valley, where we gained stunning views of the surrounding area and saw gigantic wax palms growing on the hillsides. We left the zona cafetera behind feeling like we'd found our favourite part of Colombia so far.

#colombia #periera #salento #jesus martin #coffee #la serrana

Friday night in Periera.

-male strippers really aren´t that interesting

-Danced so much salsa and cumbia , my feet were on the verge of death

-People kept asking me where I was from and at one point I just said I was from Bogota until the guy I was dancing with was from Bogota too and my plan backfired HAHAHA

#awkward moment #salsa #cumbia #dancing #periera

Periera.

So second night in Periera..

And nature decides to go completely crazy

never been through storm like that in MY LIFE.

I thought a nuclear bomb had been dropped on top of us.

IT WAS SO LOUD.

AND NOW WE HAVE NO WATER FOR 3 DAYS.

oh well.

At least I lived through that horrendous storm.

#periera #no water #nuclear bomb #I thought the sky was falling