My Year of 2009 in Status Updates

2009 STATUS UPDATE.
(a year of status updates)

I used some Facebook App that collected all my status updates from this year.

**JANUARY**
-necista usar su espanol mas.

**FEBRUARY**
-is not Jesus - no matter how many people call him.
-wants to create, imaginate, and travelate.
-misses Jackie.
-resembles Frodo Baggins.
-wants to know how and when he will die. Preferably in his sleep at the age of 60 en route to his vacation pod on Mars.
-misses the busy, productive life
-will wait until he is 94 before he skydives. There are equal thrills to be had on the ground.
-is wanting to start something BIG.
-is thinking the wise words of The Beets "BIG! Think BIG!"
-is selling crack cocaine. Who wants some?

**MARCH**
-is wondering if its weird to make friendship cards instead of business cards... ...like the asians do.
-Matt is Vote for Shit Sandwich.
-has had it up to HERE with compassion
-is missing Tally faces and places
-is in a state of optimism
-loves chance encounters
-wishes he could be sponsored by letters, like in Sesame Street. If given the proper amount, I would wear all things "M" and speak only in words beginning with "M" or had "M" in them. And end all conversations with "This interaction was brought to you by the letter "M"
-peed his pants once in the first grade. i was wearing my teenage mutant ninja turtle pants that day. who would've thought a day that started off so ninja would end in such disaster.
-I just blocked my mom on Facebook. I mean, come on, Mom! Its like SO embarrassing! Being friends with your mom on Facebook is like having your mom chaperone the middle school dance.... ...I should probably block her friends, too.
-prides himself in parallel parking
-had an Amelia Bedelia moment today
-the first 10 seconds of staring at the sun hurts, but after that... its not that bad...
-... when the music hits you, you feel no pain
-made a funny typo tonight while charting on a patient... My patient was on a "low fart diet". Hehe. Fart = Fat

**APRIL**
-April Fooled himself this morning. He thought he had to work tonight but then found out he didn't. What a jokster he is to himself.
-está lleno con vida.
-Truth is a horrible partner to play hide and seek with... it can't stand to stay hidden for more than a moment.
-just got to translate Hail Mary's and an Announting for a Spanish Patient and an African Priest. Work can be fun sometimes.
-If my plane crashes today... its been a wonderful life and I love you all very mucho. And... Bethany can have my iPhone. :-)
-wonders why people save dreaming for sleep
-knows it's full of dangers but can't help but talk to strangers.
-cannot wait for clowns, cotton candy, and the FSU Circus tonight.
-misses Quito and his Ecuadorian family.
-thinks long car rides are the best catalysts for creativity.
-wonders what applications his friends would have if they were iPhones applications
-is so happy he got to meet his favorite family band, Save The Ship.
-thinks his visit to Tally couldn't get any better... unless he found a million dollars under his airplane seat.
-has a Tallahassee shaped void in his heart again.
-is boycotting Facebook today by only updating his status 3 times today. Join me!
-give me !'s not ?'s.
-is gonna blink and hold it for the next 6 hours.
-can't find this new website called "gooogle.com"... is it 3 o's or 4o's?
-wants to save the world one tourniquet and tape at a time.
-loves lives, licks, and lyrics...
-we're always gonna be kids... its just that some of us grow to hate recess or fear drawing outside the lines.
-... must... be... productive...
-Nuevo Pelo = Nuevo Mateo
-can't wait for mates...
-felt like his patients were taking CRAZY pills!!!
-has a new stance on cussing. Cussing is like farting - it's OK to do it around some people and when you're alone driving in your car.
-is matt, his mate, and mates - todate.
-caught like two an a half Z's this morning. Maybe. How frustrating. I need to get my sleeper checked.

**MAY**
-flowers in space.
-writes his name on his toothbrush and is proud of it.
-needs his ideas to turn from caterpillars to monarchs.
-has made monarchs. :-)
-it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright... i cannot wait.
-chase dreams, not damsels.
-loves real world recess and nap time.
-every thought a thought of you...
-psycho killer, kiss of death...
-is living the life: 3 days drug-dispensing / 4 days day-dreaming.
-work sucked last night.
-is sun kissed and Barton dipped. Whose up for some hacky sack?-
-is raising rims and fixing flower trims.
-my mom is ecto-cooler than yours!
-late night brainstorms are the best to go to sleep to.
-life sucks. but life's great. there's beauty in the balance.
-is thankful that he worries about things higher up on Maslow's Pyramid than what others battle for on the base.
-needs a light.
-shadow am I! ...cause I'm not something, more like the absence of something.
-i'm always RW, when you're FF.
-needs a blackcat. pow!
-wrote a song - one more life goal accomplished.
-come January 2010... anyone wanna teach English in South America? or Raid the streets of London? Or cross the sea and get some culture?
-I don't know how, but I can.
-wants to live like Joe Chandler... live off my savings for a year. i need to number crunch and see if that's possible.
-work = work.
-feels like he's on an end of the year field trip to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. He kinda wants to join the group riding Back to the Future but also wants to join the group riding JAWS. Choices...
-Barton Springs tomorrow afternoon. Who's in or who's a fish out of water?
-the new mewithoutYou album... like Bible stories on a Sunday School felt board. The sound is soft and childish, yet the meaning runs so deep.
-is so so SO thankful he has the time to star gaze, freedom to ponder, and the resources to express... things people have died for and that i take for granted every minute.
-had been needing a good impromptu dance house party. more on the radar i hope.
-dance rock parties in small living rooms = good times. reminiscing and missing potluck dance parties of old.
-wants knowing without going.
-communication is the easiest major but the hardest thing to do well.
-hardly art, hardly starving.
-is preparing for Armegedd-Your-Groove-On Terminator Dance Party tonight.
-Summer Camp Arrakis!
-Now I gotta unpack this crap.

**JUNE**
-... your aquarium beats 20,000 leagues under the sea.
-freedom starts with zzzzzz.....
-is now carless and debating whether to buy another or just live by bike.
-i need to be a pond not a puddle, a rapid not a river
-sleep now moon...
-wants to stay in the Realms of the Unreal.
-mewithoutYou tonight at Emo's. Who's gonna be there?
-wants to add "can rollerskate backwards" to his resume.

**JULY**
-i hope mewithoutYou will still write songs in Heaven...
-is thankful for sound and music... and so many other things. (I finally got an audio device installed on my computer... imagine a computer without functioning sound.
-camping is intents.
-wishes he had the ability to fly whenever he laughed, like in Mary Poppins
-grrr... life's unexplained endings... like the feeling of leaving an A.C.T. question blank.
-why save dreams for sleep? dream with eyes wide open.
-tyypo.
-wants his super hero friends to stop what they're doing and come save him from his boredom.
-random road trip to the beach to shoot a music video. why not?
-sunrise & filmsets this morning.
-truth be told, i love falsetto.
-lives in an aquarium of clouds...
-thinks the Hawaiian shirt is more a costume than an actual shirt.
-I'm on a plane! (with my flippy floppies)

**AUGUST**
-I used to judge a person by how many toys they had in their room. Does that make me shallow?
-I ain't know nothing about birthing no babies!
-24 to freedom.
-today is crammed with creativity.
-finger painting ideas in my head today...
-is working on videos...
-using the power tools in my brain.

**SEPTEMBER**
-i can watch the trailer for Garden State for eternity. what a great trailer.
-i grow more creative as i tire... i think its because i become so close to sleep, i can peak into a dream
-Halloweenus.

**OCTOBER**
-is somewhere in los nubes.
-i asked my sister what song she wanted for her wedding video. She responded, "Kings of Leon. Your sex is on fire".
-Love the clima.
-wHy DoN't i TyPe LiKe ThIs MoRe OfTeN?
-Pam starting a vomit chain reaction.... the best Office opener ever.
-Jim & Pam's Wedding. Hands down... the best episode yet.
-is anyone familiar with the new internet craze... a "chat" "'room"? who wants to join mine? my user name will be "soccersupertonesdude7" - it'll be fun.
-Any ideas for fun, creative meals to serve for 20 people?
-ya know what we need??? a lil party in the USA.
-What's everyone gonna be for Halloween?

**NOVEMBER**
-"New York, I Love You" is to "Paris Je Taime" as "Matrix 2" is to "Matrix 1". (aka. Don't waste your money on it. Big actors, horrible story lines.)
-is practicing the choreographed Chris Brown "Forever" wedding procession for my sister's wedding tomorrow.
-sitting on the plane, I just realized Northwest Airlines has a great logo - simple yet very creative.
-sleep is the line that splits night from morning.
-wants ideas for a children's book concept or storyline. i'm wanting to complete another life goal.
-Improv in Austin. I feel so Austiny right now. My finger on the pulse of the city.
-I continually fall more in love with mewithoutYou everytime I listen. A great line... "The strawberry said to the tangerine / "my face is red but our hats are green"
-Never get into staring contest with a kid. They always win. :-/
-spent thanksgiving dinner with his patients, not his parents. :-/
-i want to climb up the side of the mountain... i want to swim in the river and lie in the sun, i want to try to be nice to everyone.

**DECEMBER**
-Man. It's a crazy night at Crackenridge.
-me gusta migas.
-don't hurt my fillings... I visit the dentist today :-(
-Hey! It's snowing in Austin!
-when Tebow cries, God cries.
-does anyone know how much a miniature pony costs? (christmas shopping)
-inspiration only comes at night... man! no sleep... but it was worth it.
-if someone leaves facebook, they cease to exist. fact.
-i update my status, therefore i am.
-called off from work for the night. I feel like a kid sent out for recess.
-all I want for Chistmas is to not hear 'Christmas Shoes' this season.
-art holiday in the hizzouse.
-arrakis art holiday = success
-art holiday and finished a song in one day... wow. talk about a creative climax for the year.
-let's cross the sea and get some culture...
-Julieta... me casarás?
-the only thing that keeps Austin from Heaven on Earth is beaches, peaks, and golden streets.
-To all the jews out there... happy harmonica.
-Santogold never ceases to snag my ear by the drums
-Orlando has a major a rodent problem.
-In Orlando for the day... hoping to run into a member of N*SYNC or O-Town. (fingers crossed)
-I'm at Karaoke Night, and I'm really tempted to interrupt the first person to sing Taylor Swift to say that Beyonce had one of the best songs of all time.
-Watching "Far & Away"... I wish I was Irish.
-Sometimes all I want for Christmas is to see it all with fresh eyes. Thanks, Tiny Tim. Thanks, George Bailey. Thanks, Sufjan Stevens. Merry Christmas Everyone!
-Man. I love my old high school friends...
-Hey Guys, when Santa comes to your house tonight, can you let me know. I want to know when he's getting close to Port Charlotte.
-its official. i am a website. www.dearmattmiller.com
-i completely agree with Pitchfork's #1 song of 2009 ::: Animal Collective "My Girls"
-merry present-giving-holiday-of-your-religion everyone!
-My conclusion after seeing "Nine" and "Me and Orson Welles": I would rather be a man of great character than a man of great creativity. Its sad to see greats so few, with both of the two.
-the addiction of creation is the questioning of what's next and the excitement that comes with that.
-old friends and new food.
-i hate inside statuses... its like not getting picked in kickball.
-I want a three-name name, like Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
-My sister: "Matt, you need to stop that bad habit..." // Me: "...What bad habit?" // My sister: "Singing... randomly...high pitched like that." // Me: " That's not gonna happen."
-is doing some self life-coaching.
-being away from Arrakis makes me miss the house love so much. i dont think i'll ever be able to move out... marriage... first child... retirement... funeral... memorial... statue. :-)
-I will run my future family like a co-op. We will take turns cooking, have labor hours, have dance parties, have around the world with milk and baked goods, and have art holidays.
-up in the air... heading home to austin.... yeah, "home" sounds like the right word.


(besides music references... all status updates are original and copyright of matthew gregory miller :-)

Clouds

I wish this was my bedroom window. :-)

great ad.

so true yet so unhealthy. but a great ad none the less.

Great Ad: Volunteer!

I like this concept for an ad on volunteering.

Unattended babies.

Look at all these unattended babies outside a ride at Hollywood Studios.
Irresponsible parents.

Tight Rope Walkers

"Tight Rope Walkers"
-Shoes on the telephone line in my neighborhood.

Guess Who: Arrakis

This is a game of Guess Who that I altered and made into a personalized photo album for the house I live in. So my 20 housemates and friends of the house are in their own game of Guess Who.

Put the lights on the tree!

We got a Christmas Tree last night!

new video i made for a friend and his non-profit "Change Africa"
check it out! let me know what you think.

My mom is ecto-cooler than yours.

My Mom is Ecto-Cooler Than Yours!
(A song for all the mothers out there who pack lunches)
A song by Matt Miller & Lauren Shows

Click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbsVHGnvLCI

Or play the YouTube video below to hear the song:


Twelve o'clock the lunch bell rings
We file down the hall and my heart sings
Headed to the cafetorium
Where the floors smell of bleach and they stick like gum

Its lunch time now and lunch time rocks
I got my hand on my Mario lunch box
We stare at the light to let us know
Red light, yellow, green light, go!

Its time to grab some grub
And my mom packed me this awesome sub
Now Timmy I don't want to switch
For your grody bologni sandwich

Cuz between the lettuce, there's love letters
In the sandwiches, there's good wishes
They say I love you bunches
These are the highlights of my lunches

Now Timmy don't you get so mad
Just because your mom's not quite as rad
With my sandwich in fourths
Its obvious that she's ecto-cooler than yours!

Yeah, my mom is so cool
Yesterday I got a pizza lunchable
She's got blackbelts in patty melts
She's the lunch time master, no one past her

Read this post-it note prose
Its got my name with x's and with o's
Cuz my mom's the shiznit
So take your Capri-Sun and suck it. Suck it.

Beneath the fruit cups and the fruit roll ups
She sends me hugs
And hot chocolate in travel mugs
I love her bunches
She packs such awesome lunches

My mom's the best! (Gives me skittles when I ace my spelling test)
Yeah my mom's the bomb! (Never sends me tuna or salami)
My mom is great! (Always putting good stuff on my plate)
Yeah, my mom is the bomb!
Yeah, my mom is the bomb (the bomb dot com)

Now Timmy can you say the same?
Your peanut butter sandwich is just so lame
But my mom packed me a chicken patty
And I bet my dad can you beat up your daddy.

****

So this song was written with A TON of help from Lauren Shows. She writes songs under the moniker "Shoeshine Pickens". Her songs are really cute and really well written for sounding like a 5 year old. Jk. :-)
Check out her much better written, much better sung songs here:
http://www.myspace.com/moreofthisnonsense
My favorites are "I Miss Cherie" and "Hayley and Ian are Sweethearts"

Documentary is a synonym for Life Sucking Creative Project.

I love watching documentaries... especially ones about interesting people whom have overcome amazing challenges in their lives. Here are a few I recommend.

America Movie:
This is a documentary about a guy who will stop at nothing to get his horror film made. This is the perfect example of self determination... and its so dang funny.
(Skip to 25 seconds into the YouTube video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N2Jz1en4w


My Flesh and Blood:
This is a documentary about a year in the life of a woman who has adopted around 11 special needs kids. Its such a great documentary to see the love and outlook on life that these kids have despite their horrible disabilities and deformities. Very cute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIhXB5c0cA


Mad Hot Ballroom
I love thinking like a kid sometimes, so I love documentaries based around kids. This is the perfect documentary about pre-pubescent girl-boy interactions. And what better way to address these issues than by making them dance with each other. A great doc about a NYC after school ballroom dance competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLtWi1DXmKQ


These documentaries last about an hour and a half. But the audience never realizes that these documentaries took at least a year or more to create, shoot, and edit. The art of film making is a long and tiring process. Documentary is even more tiring due to its independent nature, small crews and lack of a large audience.

I took a documentary class in the fall of 2007 and realized the pain and struggle of making a documentary first hand. Although the final piece was only 10 minutes, myself, the others, and especially Molly Smith collectively spent over a hundred hours of our free time to shoot this documentary. We drove to Georgia, Miami, slept on floors, slept on couches, slept in cars, sacrificed time with friends, logged and organized every word recorded, and edited till our eyes and ears bled. But in the end, we created a magnificent documentary.

Although I finished this documentary over a year ago, I am finally uploading it for the world to see. I would like you guys to watch this when you have a free 10 minutes and tell me what you think. I am very proud of this documentary, and even more proud of Molly for finding this story and sacrificing so much of her time to tell it. And I am very proud of Ray Bellamy...

This is a documentary about Ray Bellamy, the first black football player to play for a major university in the South - The University of Miami. Not only did he overcome adversity on the field, but also challenged diversity in the classroom. This doc brings me to tears every time. I'm not sure if its because it was such a big part of my life for a semester or if its because of Ray's story.

I hope you guys enjoy.

"A People Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV3vq6hlffg

Isla de la Poopa

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Isla de la Poopa

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 4:25pm

On Tuesday of this last week I spent 12 hours in Puerto Lopez. It was a quick trip and I actually spent more time on the bus there and back then I did at the beach. 20 hours on bus, 12 hours on the beach. I had only a few days to see Ecuador and thats all the amount of time I had to see the beach.

The beach was cool but I can see beaches anytime in Florida, so I wasn't too excited about the beach. I was mainly there to see 2 things...

1. I got to see Isla de la Plata...

Isla de la Plata means "Island of Silver" in Spanish because of its white cliffs. You can see the white cliffs in this picture.

The tour guide says the cliffs are white because of the massive bird population. And what do birds like to do?
Poop.
The tour guide told us that the cliffs were white because of bird poop. At first, I wasn't sure if he had translated his English correctly. However, after a second and third questioning, he affirmed that the cliffs were white because of the birds' feces.

However, I am still not sure if this is true or not... so I may need to do some fact checking. You would think the poop would run away after a rain. Right?

Isla de la Plata is considered "The Poor Man's Galapogos" due to its population of exotic birds...
Like the Blue Footed Boobies. Seen below...

Also, there are another kid of Booby, seen here...

They are called the Nazca Booby. When nesting, they like to make a white ring around themselves (for some reason). You would think the ring is made of something natural like sand or chalk or White-Out. But its not. Its made of their own poo. They are a lot like my little sister Bethany when she was 12 years old... they have a common interest in playing with their poo.

Here is where the tour guide says the Sea Lions are...

Do you see them?
No?
Well, neither could I....
Its because they aren't there. I think the tour guide was lying to us when he said the island had Sea Lions...


2. The second thing I went to Puerto Lopez to see was...
THE WHALES!
Whales in Spanish is Ballenas.



Here is a picture of me and one of the whales...

Actually, this is the best picture I got of a whale.

Sorry the picture of the whales looks like one of those UFO sightings... the kind where the UFO actually looks like a spec of dust on the camera lens. The whales never got too close to the boat. They were always about 100 feet away or more. But, a few times they did poke their heads out of the water. However, I was never quick enough to get a good pic. I think the whales never got too close to the boat because of this kid...

This poor kid was blowing chunks off the side of the boat the whole trip. And if you were a whale, would you want to get close to vomit?
I wouldn't. Poor kid. Poor whales.

Here is a pic of my meal, while I was eating dinner by the beach & reminiscing.

Well, my trip to Puerto Lopez was quick, but fulfilling.


P.S. - The original title for this note was going to be "Boobies & Ballenas!!!" But after thinking about it... I thought it was too middle-school boyish... Now I am more mature than that.

What kind of movies do Pirates like?

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What kind of movies do Pirates like?

Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12:07am

Movies about Pirates... duh.
Like this one...

Oh yeah... Pirates like Arrghh-rated movies, too.

Or this one for the kids...

Since I have been in Quito, I have become quite the pirate.
In Quito, on just about every street corner, there is a store full of pirated DVDs. Now some stores are more professional than others. Some actually make the DVD cases look legit and cover the DVDs with designs so that the DVDs look like the actual.

However, some do not go to such great lengths. Some DVD cases are just photocopies from the movie's website. And the DVDs are just white, blank DVD-R disks.
But what do you expect for $2?

But I think I have become addicted to buying pirated DVDs. This is my collection so far...

Yes, that was High School Musical.
No, it wasn't for me.
It was for Brandon Wade because he opened my eyes to the miracle that is High School Musical 1. However, this copy was a defect. The movie worked fine but all the words were behind by like 3 seconds. And you know, I cannot sing along unless my lips are insync with Zac Efron's.
But what do you expect for $2?
So I returned it for another movie.

Now, some of you may be wondering... pirated DVDs... didn't Metallica or someone like that tell me that was wrong? Well you are correct. Pirated DVDs are TECHNICALLY illegal.

BUT! The congress of Ecuador are making pirated DVDs and CDs legal for the sake of the poor. So many people in Ecuador make a living off of selling Pirated DVDs. So instead of shutting down these businesses and putting these people in jail. They are going fix the problem by making it legal... makes sense, right?
So TECHNICALLY it won't be illegal in about 2 months, so I don't have a guilty conscience.

However, I did get a guilty conscience after I bought "Que Tan Lejos" for $2.

"Qué tan lejos" translates to:
"How much further?" in English
or
"Are we there yet?" in Annoying little kid

"Que tan lejos" is a great independently-made film about 3 people on a road trip through Ecuador. Two girls, strangers, are on the same bus headed from Quito to Cuenca. One (named Tristeza) is trying to stop her lover from marrying someone he doesn't love. (I think I like the movie because I have a crush on her. I am a sucker for hippie Latino girls. However, this changed when I saw her in the Bonus section of the DVD where she had a uni-brow in an interview. A little too hippie for me.) The other (named Esperanza) is from Spain traveling through Ecuador. A third man joins them (his name is Jesus... it made me feel really guilty for buying the pirated movie... WWJD :-/ ). But its a great movie if you want to see what Ecuador is like - the mountains, kids selling chiclets, Quito, Cuenca, la playa, late buses, famous Spanish singers, and Liga... haha.

Here is a link to the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnzrllQlzQ

After watching it, I felt like the Independent Film Gods were going to strike me dead.

To make up for it, I am going to have you guys buy the legit DVD for me! Haha.
Here is a link to the website where you can buy it for $20.
http://www.medulafilms.com/siloin/

Actually, I am going to buy it when I get back to the states (because its next to impossible to find a legitimate DVD store in Quito... haha).
But you should buy it to support Independent Film in Ecuador.

Que Lindo, Mindo

Que Lindo, Mindo

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 9:39pm

I love the challenge of thinking of some cheasy, somewhat catchy title for my posts... "Que Lindo, Mindo" means "How Pretty, Mindo"... and it rhymes if you didn't notice. I should be an Ad Exec, like Mel Gibson in "What Women Want".

Anyways... Mindo...
Mindo can be describes in two words...
Mariposas... aka Butterflies

Cascadas... aka Waterfalls

However, the waterfalls at Mindo were more like this...

After a 10 minute truck-bed ride, we reached the top.

We had to cross a big chasm to get to the waterfalls.
It looked a lot like this one:

Well, actually like this one:

It was a pretty canopy top to look at from the basket on a string that carried us from one side to the other.
Here is Katrien (my Belgium friend, one of 3 of us) in the basket.

We had to walk for quite awhile...
Jenny (my French friend) wasn't the happiest about the long walk.

Here I am telling the girls, "Don't eat that! It will kill you in 30 seconds."

I know a lot about poisonous plants of South America. I wasn't a cub scout for nothing. Plus, I like to tell girls what to do. Liberal, atheist foreign chicks love it when guys tell them what to do.

We also had to cross a river by rope...

Okay, not really. There was just a random rope in the path.

We walked for about 25 minutes before we reached the first waterfall.

We had to cross a bridge to see the waterfall really well.

Once again, Ecuadorians don't care about the safety of their tourists. At some parts there were big gaps in the walkway.

I was proud of myself (quite prideful) for not falling or slipping on the way down to the waterfall (one of the persons in our group fell - it was quite funny). However, when I decided I wanted a picture of me on the rock with the fountain in the background, I slipped.

I hate a wet sock & shoe.

Luckily my backpack was on or I would have really hurt my head on the way down.

Then we headed to the next waterfall. It was really big and had a spot for swimming. So I decided to make my way towards the swimming hole.

Here I am not sure if I want to dive in. It was pretty dang cold.

Here I am having trouble breathing in the water because it was so DANG cold.
I was only in the water for about 15 seconds. I had my full of Ecuadorian waterfall swimming adventures.

I was exhausted after a long day of walking and swimming.

Peak-a-boo with Cotopaxi

Peak-a-boo with Cotopaxi

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 6:12pm

(Note: I wrote this note about a week ago and I didn't even realize the pun in my own title until just now (peak-a-boo & mountain peaks). Even my subconscious is cheasy... I'm hopeless).

About 2 weeks ago, I went to see Cotopaxi - the world's highest continuously active volcano. It erupts about every 15 minutes.
We were lucky enough to get this picture when we were there.

Haha... just kidding. It erupts more like every 15 years... which is still pretty active. But it is one of the most symmetrical volcanoes.

However, when we visited it, it was behind clouds for most of the time.

The family and I drove up as high as our car could take us and stopped to walk. We then walked up the slope for about 15 minutes before we decided that none of us had the lungs to reach the snow.

However, as we were walking down to the car, we were blessed with a few snow flurries.

Hmmm... taste good.

And finally, Cotopaxi peaked its peak through the clouds.
We were able to take a few pictures of Cotopaxi's peak.

¡Que symmetrical!

And since we weren't able to reach the snow peak, we found a little patch of dirty snow by the edge of the road. Nicky was determined to have a snow fight. Kids.

See the snow ball flying at the camera!?

And I joined in on the action.

By the end, everyone was throwing snow balls.

What great fun