hemos vuelto

we’re back. after getting up at 5am, fighting through the san jose airport, unsuccessfully trying to buy some duty-free parfumee stuff (reasons given by three different counters: 1. it’s a liquid 2. it’s too late 3. it’s a liquid that is not liquor, which would be ok because it’s a different liquid), swapping window seats with canadians, spending a couple of hours at the lax tomorrowland-themed “encounter” restaurant, and then finally being allowed to fly up the coast, we arrived home last night. mika is ok, and after giving us the silent treatment for a night, is back to her yappy self this morning.

lots of pictures to sort through, which will be flickred eventually, and perhaps retroactive blog postings, just to make you scroll back and forth and not know when i’m actually done with my trip. whee!

books read while gone:

• orhan pamuk - my name is red
  
• salman rushdie - haroun and the sea of stories (exchanged at a book swap at lapa rios)
  
• michael chabon - the amazing adventures of kavalier and klay (liberated from book swap at la costa de pepito)
  
• johnathan lethem - men and cartoons (bought from echo books)

the next vacation we take that’s over two weeks long i resolve to just bring my copy of gravity’s rainbow and finish it instead of continually running out of things to read.