Lil' Rumi Boat

First, a few clean-up items: 1) The Navy won 2 out of 3, the best 'our side' has ever done. We then went on to play many many more games, from 3-on-3 to 6-on-6, and drank many beers with them. An excellent time, and a great Spanish lesson. 2) The next day we played the "employees" of the restaurant at which the games were held at (none of the players worked there), and got slaughtered 2 games to zilch. However, later, during the following hours of games and drinking, we had a match of 4-on-4, a strong four on both sides, with a wager - proposed by them - for the losers to go swimming in the ocean. We won handily. 3) Our public has spoken, and the font for Rumiko is Font #4 (see our previous posting for an example). This is the theory, anyway. We'll see how it turns out when Lisa actually tries to paint Rumiko in that font. Now on to the main part of our life here - the Bercovich Boat Yard ( Talleres Navales Bercovich ). Luckily, in a way we did not under...

It’s April – several weeks since our last posting – so we thought it was high time we wrote something. For starters, we’re several shades darker than when last we wrote (although some of the “tan” disappears at the end of the day, down the shower drain). And we keep noticing muscles that were not part of our Reno bodies. It’s good to remember that our arms can serve a purpose other than acting as a conduit for messages from our brains to our computer keyboards. Most evenings our rediscovered muscles ache from the day’s activities. Part of the strain has definitely come from contorting ourselves to fit into tiny spaces in order to clean them, sand them or replace hoses, etc. We just realized we have not taken any photos of ourselves in these awkward positions. It’s probably for the best. It wasn’t pretty. The majority of our arm pain, however, comes from repetitive motions like sanding and scrubbing, and removing and tightening screws. But it’s all very much worth the pain. We’re seeing...