A few additions to add...

Have a few additions to posts made in the past as I couldn't see these as new stand alone posts.

1. Flowers. Seriously the flowers here are crazy. Little works of art... or cold blooded killers- check out the carnivorous pitcher plant!

2. Beer tasting. Michael, the fearless leader of the Caracas beer appreciation club found the Tovar motherlode. Tovar was not represented at the previous beer tasting as it can be hard to find. Imagine our excitement then when we found out it would be featured at a "tasting" at the Topotepuy gardens.

We were ready to earn our beers, but had no idea that first we had to take the garden tour.

 Notice how we are clearly the delinquents at the back of the class just waiting for it to be over. As Adam said: "I try to keep my learning happening on the weekdays."

Having a hard time giving this one a caption- fill in your own.

 With the tour over we were surely close to having a beer, we even found the big sign... but alas

Michael and Nadjib 

 There was-I kid you not- a powerpoint presentation on the process of making Tovar beer- presented by the brewmaster himself. As the talk was in spanish I was only catching every 5th or 6th word at best and was starting to seriously wonder if there was beer at this thing at all.

Paul and Mike as riveted as the rest of us.

But in the end our studious listening skills paid off as the Tovar flowed like wine- note the happy faces, these are because we just put in 2 hours of hard waiting for this beer. 

that first beer was tasty, what do tell, shall I have to do for a second?

 Again, with Venezuelan beer it is all perspective. Was it really that good? Or was it because we had to endure so much before drinking it? Or was it because we misunderstood when they told us to have 2-3, we thought they meant each time we went to the bar we were to take 2 to 3 with us. Sometimes it is handy to be an emerging second language learner.

3. Beisbol. We decided to go to another game. This time it was a Sunday afternoon family game. We decked ourselves out in La Guaira finest and cruised over to the stadium. 

We are probably the two biggest Tiburone fans in all of Colorado.

Maybe I got taken for a ride or maybe I didn't understand when the guy told me, but I bought 2 tickets out past 1st base, and 2 behind home plate, oops. This is also the reason why there are no pics of Luca and Lisa, they got the home base seats.

It was another fun game, The Tiburones won but I still didn't get to see a beer shower due to the absence of any home-runs. Guess we will have to go again.

they weren't selling that hat in the giftshop.

Yes it does Jay-Z, yes it does.

 4. Beer tasting. One last note on perspective. Polar Ice didn't score that high at the first beer tasting but I will tell you straight up: At the ball field this stuff is pure gold. You give the beer vendor in your area a little head nod and he pours you a beer. Each time you do this you put the new beer into the empty old one. At the end of the game you count how many cups you have all stacked together and pay. 20 Bolivares a cup- not too shabby.