{"id":1868,"date":"2015-04-12T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-04-12T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:00:53","slug":"easter-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Easter in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of our cultural immersion, Pablo thought it would be good for us to visit a number of different churches in town over our stay to get an idea of the different worship styles. Our favorite was the one we visited on Easter Sunday. We walked in to a room clearly divided right down the middle. To the right, the congregation, to the left, the worship band\u2026 it was close to half and half, with the edge going to the band. But no this wasn\u2019t a tiny church with a keyboard and guitar, we\u2019re in South America after all. The band consisted of no less than 5 accordion players (ranging in age form 12-60), at least 5 tambourine players, 6-10 traditional guitar players, about 6 people playing a banjo-mandolin hybrid\u2026 oh, and then one little boy with a set of bongos. The service was full of music to say the least\u2026 like a super-powered mariachi band. And it turns out that the little old lady taking notes at the front table wasn\u2019t there for \u201cminutes\u201d or to take prayer requests, she is where you sign up to sing. Kinda like a open mic night, you sign up there to sign\/play\/read the following Sunday\u2026 Rick\u2019s request to sing Freebird<\/em> was unanimously declined.<\/p>\n

Our favorite activity of the day was teaching Guille and Nathan how to dye Easter Eggs and explaining how they symbolize Jesus\u2019 empty tomb and the new life that comes as a result of His rising from the dead. This was a first for all of us to dye eggs from \u201cscratch\u201d i.e. on or own without any help from a kit. We went the professional way, we\u00a0hollowed out the eggs by poking holes in the ends and blowing out the white and the yolk, as opposed to the hardboiled route. We discovered Liz is much better at this than Rick\u00a0(for the record, Rick authored this paragraph. Can\u2019t wait for the comments).\u00a0<\/em>The results speak for themselves\u2026 clearly, somos artistos<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

Apparently no Easter<\/del>\u00a0trip to Argentina is complete without a visit from Rat\u00f3n P\u00e9rez, he is the Argentine equivalent of the Easter Bunny<\/del>\u00a0Tooth Fairy. Yep the Tooth Fairy here is a rodent, a rat to be more specific. This worked out fairly well as most of\"Raton what Rick knows how to say in Spanish is about animals (gato this, rat\u00f3n that, monos get back). None the less he was a constant source of conversation and almost like another member of the family. Oh, and I can\u2019t forget to mention that we got to enjoy the company of Raton Perez\u2019s friends during our stay. Rick made big claims to Guille and Pablo about his trapping prowess\u2026 convinced them to provide some of Guille\u2019s jewelry wire for him to make snares\u2026 it\u2019s been two weeks, we still have two empty rat snares. Rick says he just intimidated them. Which is weird because I swear I can hear them mocking him from the ceiling above our bed. This was one of Guille\u2019s and my, many, \u201cinside jokes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of our cultural immersion, Pablo thought it would be good for us to visit a number of different churches in town over our stay to get an idea of the different worship styles. Our favorite was the one we visited on Easter Sunday. We walked in to a room clearly divided right down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[43,152,169,170,171],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina","tag-animals","tag-argentina","tag-easter","tag-jokes","tag-raton-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}