My best friend sent me a package and Kendall asked all week why I received a package and he did not! I waited until he woke up to open the cards and gifts. Many thanks to Tia Coreen and Abuela Ginny for the Sno Cone maker and accessories! I thought that was my only gift to open until Kendall told me to 'Cerrado Los Ojos.' He filled the brown bag he decorated from school with gifts from the house for me. Muchas graces, mi hijo. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into the giving.
I needed to find someone to mow the lawn since the person I hired had not mowed in 2 weeks. Cordelia was disappearing in the lawn! I tried to fix my lawn mower but no such luck to mow today. Many thanks to Tomasetti Lawn Care for helping me me out today. Kendall loves the no caminar (no walking) lawn mowers :-)
We talked via Skype with Kevin, Eduardo and Kattya. Many thanks to Kattya for the fabulous chocolate and strawberry cake with candles. We wished we were with in Costa Rica to blow them out and enjoy it with you. Instead I blew the candles throughout the TV. We look forward to next July when we will celebrate everyone's birthday's and milestone of the year in a mas grande celebration!
I made a chicken fried rice dinner and then we watched muchos peliculas: Yogi Bear in 3d otra vez and Rio. Rio tells the story of Blu, a male blue macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female blue macaw, Jewel. He eventually falls in love with her, a free-spirited macaw, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel, a cockatoo. It started with a baby Blu being taken from his family in another country and found in the US by a red headed woman with glasses. Sound familiar?
In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, MN (or Coatesville, PA) a crate with a male blue macaw hatchling falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl (or woman) named Linda Gunderson (or Allison Radwick), who names him Blu. Fifteen years later, Linda owns a bookstore. Blu, highly domesticated and unable to fly, is ridiculed frequently by the Canadian geese that come by the outside of Linda's bookstore.
In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, MN (or Coatesville, PA) a crate with a male blue macaw hatchling falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl (or woman) named Linda Gunderson (or Allison Radwick), who names him Blu. Fifteen years later, Linda owns a bookstore. Blu, highly domesticated and unable to fly, is ridiculed frequently by the Canadian geese that come by the outside of Linda's bookstore.
One day, an ornithologist Túlio Monteiro invites Blu and Linda to Rio de Janeiro on the condition that Blu, who is the last male of his species, mates with a female macaw. Linda accepts and they fly to Rio, where Blu meets a red-crested cardinal named Pedro and his yellow canaryfriend Nico. At Túlio's aviary, Blu falls in love with Jewel, a confident and independent blue macaw longing to flee into the wilderness. The macaws are captured by Fernando, an impoverished orphan boy, and a cockatoo named Nigel, both of whom work for a group of smugglers led by Marcel. While Fernando
has second thoughts about his actions, Nigel tells the macaws that he vowed to smuggle exotic birds in revenge after his role on a television program had been replaced by one. However, because of Blu's familiarity with cages, the macaws are able to flee into a jungle.
has second thoughts about his actions, Nigel tells the macaws that he vowed to smuggle exotic birds in revenge after his role on a television program had been replaced by one. However, because of Blu's familiarity with cages, the macaws are able to flee into a jungle.
Fernando meets Linda and Túlio and tells them that Marcel forced him to capture birds, before cooperating with the two to find Blu. Meanwhile, Blu and Jewel meet a Toco Toucan named Rafael, who offers to take them to his bullodog friend Luiz to remove their leg chain. He tries to teach Blu how to fly, before they meet up with Pedro and Nico. Nigel hires a horde of thieving marmosets to capture Blu and Jewel. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird's Rio-style party, where they perform a duet, but encounter the marmosets right before the macaws are about to kiss. Their bird friends fight them off while Blu's group escapes. Fernando takes Linda and Túlio to the smugglers hideout, where they discover that the birds have already been moved out. Marcel, wanting to leave the country as soon as possible to secure a black market deal regarding Blu and Jewel, explains that he will use the Rio Carnival parade to smuggle the birds to the airport, as all the other streets have been blocked off for the festivities.
Meanwhile, Blu and the others meet Luiz, who releases the chain holding Blu and Jewel. Blu, thinking that his inability to fly will only be a burden to Jewel, argues with Jewel before going their separate ways. Pedro and Nico witness Nigel capturing Jewel. When Blu and Rafael learn from Pedro and Nico that Nigel captured Jewel, they rush to the carnival to rescue her. Meanwhile, Linda and Túlio have spotted the smuggler's parade float and organize a rescue attempt for the birds.
As Linda and Túlio pose as dancers in blue macaw costumes, Nigel captures Blu and the group. Linda and Túlio fail to stop the smugglers on time and Marcel's group takes off in a Short SC.7 Skyvan. On board, Blu destroys his cage using his fire hydrant and releases Jewel. The macaws release the captive birds, but Nigel injures Jewel. Blu sends Nigel flying into the plane engine using the now active fire extinguisher, and the smugglers flee the plane. Unable to fly, Jewel falls out of the plane's open cargo hatch towards the ocean. Jumping out of the plane to rescue Jewel, Blu finally discovers that he is able to fly. Blu carries Jewel back to Linda and Túlio for help. Later, Linda and Túlio adopt Fernando, heal Jewel, and organize a sanctuary to protect the jungle from smugglers. Blu and Jewel raise three baby birds together and celebrate with their bird friends, Nigel is ridiculed for his loss of feathers, and the smugglers are sent to jail.
A fabulous birthday - buenas noches!
No comments:
Post a Comment