This event is Halloween and people in Argentina don’t really celebrate because in Carrefour they were skipping it and going straight to Christmas. There wasn’t much to buy but we DID find this funky skeleton who’s really got the moves:
And then we decided to make our own decorations. We made bats, spiders and pumpkins and lots of other games to play at our party.
We are living in an estate and we have some lovely neighbours and we invited them over for our party. There were 2 twin boys at the age of 6 and a mother and father. Their names were Martin, Nacho (who are the twins), and Tatiana and Eduardo (who are the mother and father).
Our family dressed up and Daddy was a a crazy gaucho:
Mummy was wicked witch:
Rob dressed up as a scary skeleton
Bella was a villainous vampire
And I was a spooky black cat
We hid the games in our bedroom (until it was time to play), and scared off invaders with our spider corridor trick:
These are some of the games we played and made:
The slime bath we made was sticky and icky and it was very Halloweeny because it was bright green.
We did bowling which was very cool because we made the skittles ourselves. We made them out of beer cans, black card and chalk. I made Daddy, and Mummy and Rob drink a lot of beer to get enough cans to make the game!
We paid some traditional games like pass the parcel, musical statues, pop the balloons, apple bobbing, tube stacking, and stick-the-spider-on-the-web. We got candies as prizes for all the games.
We made a game where there were 3 different compartments in a box and you had to stick your hand in and guess what was in the compartment while your hand was in it. We put ketchup water in one, mushed banana in another and dried pasta in the last one. Everyone said “euwwwww, thats disgusting!”
The last game we played was donuts-on-strings where you have to eat the donuts without using any hands.
After that we had a wonderful candlelit dinner that Daddy cooked on the Asado.
After dinner our final game was toilet papering people to make them look like a mummy. It was very fun and toilet paper went everywhere.
And guess what happened the next morning to the 3 donuts that were left over:
We love you Pinto!
(about an hour north of BA) for the entirety of October and November. The house is a wonderful mixture of modern and traditional (think huge glass walls looking out onto a blazingly green garden, with tall beamed ceilings and roaring log fires for the cold nights). There are about 150 large plots of land here where wealthy Argentinians ‘weekend’. The compound is fenced, and consists of nothing but horses (everywhere – literally), houses, a communal tennis court, and the clubhouse (which warrants a blog post of its own). It backs onto the reserve (direct access) which makes for great hacking and picnics by the river. There is tonnes of security so the girls can cycle around and enjoy some yet unknown freedom.
around for the last 10 years. We pick grapefruits and lemons from trees in the garden for breakfast / G&Ts respectively (actually the grapefruits go quite well in the G&Ts too….).
Wildlife abounds, my favourites so far being the burrowing owls, lagarto lizards, white-eared possum, fireflies, and the hares that race around in search of a better blade of grass…… I have resumed my early morning runs. Its deliciously flat going, but still throws out spectacular nature and sunrises to tickle the endorphin highs.
the terrace in case there are carrots involved. Whilst we like the familiarity and proximity, it does result in a fair whack of poo-picking, but the girls negotiated a rate of 30c per poo (it was supposed to be 25p per poo, but Em pointed out that the pound is weak against the dollar, and we pay in dollars, so it should be 30c………… so i capitulated on the condition they do their own maths). 
In La Boca (a very colourful place where there are houses of all sorts of colours), we went to a museum about sculptures/art. There was an amazing exhibition all done by Alexander Calder. The art was mysterious. It was put together in loads of bending twiddling ways. He was a sculptor and an engineer because there was something you could wind up but there wasn’t an engine in it. 
