Way back in the early days of the summer of 2010, many many years ago, Victoria agreed to drop everything she was doing to accompany Joseph and serve as his translator/caretaker on a jaunt through South America. After the two spent a total of about 12 straight days arranging to put their lives on hold (if you're reading this, then you're probably among the close friends and family who will be receiving some of their bills while they're away... please continue to pay them) and visiting multiple Targets up and down the eastern seaboard, they left the country on August 24th. How will it end? Will the pair ever return? What will they eat? Where will they sleep? Will they finally run out of things to say to each other?

For answers to these and more - in fact, ALL - of life's nagging questions, read below.

Thursday

Alive

Dear Friends, family, and Robert,

You may have been wondering what has happened to us in the last, oh, 45 days. We, with our flawless record of keeping you abreast of our adventures on the southern continent, suddenly, without warning, just like that, vanish from the face of our web page.

So why? Why did we do it?

Now we could make up something about how much time and energy it takes to keep up a blog. We could whine and complain about the emotional investment involved in pouring our hearts out to the world. We could blame our lapse on the hours and hours we´ve spent catching up with Victoria´s family and friends in Argentina, or on the 10 day visit by Joseph´s parents. Or we could make an excuse about the all encompassing laziness that washed over us when we entered the highly-civilized culture in the Argentine, prompting us to drink really strong coffee and eat dulce de leche in lieu of staring at a computer screen all night.

We could make excuses. But we won´t.

The truth is, the internet has been out in Argentina. Venezuela was over watching a movie, had a little too much to drink, got up to tell that same story about finding the jacket in the gutter, and... and when he was demonstrating the part where the old woman tried to grab it from the dog, Venezuela accidentally knocked over the lamp and disconnected Argentina´s router. By the time Argentina got around to calling, it was a Friday, and it couldn´t get an appointment with Comcast until the following Wednesday. Of course, Comcast said they´d stop by between ¨9:00 and 6:00,¨and Argentina couldn´t wait all day, and the cable guy must´ve come when Argentina was out at the post office. Five hours on hold and three more failed home visits later... Chile was over for dinner and pointed out that the router had a reset button on the back... Long story short, the internet´s up and running again, so we´ll be back soon to fill you in.

Apologies for the delay, and all of you except for Josh should be ashamed for not commenting on our absence.
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  1. joshDecember 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM

    it is a great and humbling honor to be shouted-out by this sweet-ass blog.

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