Nicknames
Those of y9u who know Dana well know that nicknames often emerge with her. Yesterday we spent the day at Iguaçu Falls, some of the most amazing waterfalls in the world. Iguaçu is actually a group of about 200 waterfalls all throughout a large horseshoe canyon--far larger, higher, and with greater waterflow than Niagara, and it's set in the middle of the jungle!
"Jungle Surfer" (Maddie) One of our first activities was to hike down to the bottom of the canyon and take a boat past some of the falls and INTO two of them. It was an awesome experience, and Maddie especially loved getting soaked. She was wearing her O'neill surf shirt to keep from getting burned, and one of the boat guides asked her if she was a surfer, leading to her nickname as "Jungle Surfer" Given by Phil.
"Felipao" (Phil) in Portuguese means "Big Phil" and is given not so much because of my large size, but because it was the name of Brasil's soccer coach in 2002 when Brasil won an unprededented fifth World Cup championship.
"Senhor Shutterbug" (Hans Ashlock) our friend who is traveling with us takes dozens of photos every day of the beautiful scenery, his beautiful wife Tracy, and mundane shots of us traveling in a bus, walking into a restaurant, etc. He's also an excellent travel companion because of his flexible nature and continually upbeat personality about whatever we're doing. Nickname given by Maddie.
"Butterfly Girl" (Tracy Ashlock) is a woman of many talents. One we discovered on this trip is that she is a butterfly expert gained from a love of butterflies since childhood. Iguaçu Falls has many different kinds of butterflies everwhere, and Tracy was naming many of them for us. They seemed to like her also, as several landed on her and stayed calmly on her hand at different points. Maddie gave her the nickname.
Claire and Dana have yet to land nicknames, but I'm sure that by the end of our trip, theirs will have emerged also.
"Jungle Surfer" (Maddie) One of our first activities was to hike down to the bottom of the canyon and take a boat past some of the falls and INTO two of them. It was an awesome experience, and Maddie especially loved getting soaked. She was wearing her O'neill surf shirt to keep from getting burned, and one of the boat guides asked her if she was a surfer, leading to her nickname as "Jungle Surfer" Given by Phil.
"Felipao" (Phil) in Portuguese means "Big Phil" and is given not so much because of my large size, but because it was the name of Brasil's soccer coach in 2002 when Brasil won an unprededented fifth World Cup championship.
"Senhor Shutterbug" (Hans Ashlock) our friend who is traveling with us takes dozens of photos every day of the beautiful scenery, his beautiful wife Tracy, and mundane shots of us traveling in a bus, walking into a restaurant, etc. He's also an excellent travel companion because of his flexible nature and continually upbeat personality about whatever we're doing. Nickname given by Maddie.
"Butterfly Girl" (Tracy Ashlock) is a woman of many talents. One we discovered on this trip is that she is a butterfly expert gained from a love of butterflies since childhood. Iguaçu Falls has many different kinds of butterflies everwhere, and Tracy was naming many of them for us. They seemed to like her also, as several landed on her and stayed calmly on her hand at different points. Maddie gave her the nickname.
Claire and Dana have yet to land nicknames, but I'm sure that by the end of our trip, theirs will have emerged also.
posted by pdana | 2:38 AM
4 Comments:
Well, well, well. It's raining and flooding here in Northern CA, and many of us have to drag ourselves back to work tomorrow, but at least we have the nice image of you all trekking through beautiful jungle with butterflies landing on Tracy....
I'm reading your blog everyday. It sounds like your days in Brasil are ALMOST as wonderful as my days at my desk in the astronomy department!
I'm so glad for the cunliffe's birthtrek adventure. On a much more modest note: we spent five quiet days in South Lake--the weather was dreary but the girls were wonderful...it wasn't Brazil, but nice nevertheless.
It's wonderful in the midst of our grey Berkeley days to see Brasil through your eyes!
Miss you guys a lot, but your blog is helping. I myself have one last day of freedom before I'm hooked up to my computer monitor again... ah, freedom!
Just got back from Taiwan and am catching up on your birth trek/blog. I'm enjoying your posts and will continue to follow along.
Traveling mercies and revelations to all!
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