P is for Papyrus

A few days ago... actually I guess it was more like 2 weeks ago but I'm just now getting around to updating this... we had fun and relaxing Saturday which started with a trip to the local nursery. I am highly motivated/jealous of Emy and Drew's amazing yard, so I figured we could at least spruce up our 8' x 8' patio... Mario swears I drug him from plant to plant for over 3 hours but the truth is that we visited 4 different places, purchased plants, pots, compot and bark, went out to eat lunch and were home in 2.5 hours. And let the record stand that I offered to go alone, but he wasn't quite comfortable with that either!

At any rate, we ended up with two Papyrus trees that are very fun and have a certain Dr. Seuss quality that I love. When I told the woman working there I was looking for something tall and kind of thin she looked at Mario and then smiled at me - I think she detected a pattern in my life - and then showed us the few options that fit the bill.

I still have some arranging to do - get bigger pots and some kid of stand for my herb plants and not sure what to do with the table, but you see the beginnings.


After our outing to the nursery, we went with our friends Leandro and Jasmin to visit the monument to the Argentine flag that is in Rosario. I've been around the bottom of the monument often (we even took wedding fotos there) but had never been to the top or to the museum. It was a bit cold but we had fun all the same. Here are some pics of the city from the top as well as one truly terrible one of all three of us. Mario might get fired as photographer...