Happy Holidays!!

Dear Friends, I wanted to send all of you my best wishes for a wonderful time with family and friends. And a great 2008. A big hug Sonia Paz and family Click here: http://badaboo.free.fr/merryxmas.swf

Christmas Party

Hello everyone,

I just got home from a Christmas party at my friend Jan Potter.
Our Women's Community Center got together and we all brought food, there were about 14 of us, between old and new members, mostly women only two husbands.
I drove with Jennifer and her husband, a lovely couple, both attorneys and under 40.
we are both part of the board of directors and we presented the old members with diplomas of gratitude and a potted plant.
Jan's home is located on a hill, with great views of the city lights, it remained me of my old home. She decorated the garden and the home so pretty, with lights everywhere and inside she had a table decorated with miniature homes, a little town over a white snow like setting all aglow. Beautiful.
We all brought food, and she made a delicious soup, she is famous at Christmas with her soup, she feeds the fire department and they love it.
After we ate, we played "The White Elephant Game" each of us brings a wrapped present, and each chooses a number, number one open a present and then number two opens her, if she likes it she keeps it, if not she takes number one, it is all good fun and by the time number fourteen chooses, the gifts have change hands several times.
I was number three and got a barometer, very pretty, my friend Angie took it, I got a mystery book, then eventually I ended up with a tree decoration. Angie lost the barometer to Sue who is sending it to her niece in Norway!!!
We had a lot of fun and I spent time with Jennifer sharing Russian words, as they are going to Moscow to adopt a two year old boy in several weeks from now.
I just got home, it is cold outside, 40 degrees and I am in bed.
I have a great virtual x mass card I will send you all, but I will mail it next Sunday.
Until next time , a hug from this side of the planet.
Sonia Paz

Pachi y Pablo

Dear Friends,

After many hours of hard work and ( a major migraine by the end of the day)
I have created two new web pages dedicated to my old Chilean musical duo "Pachi y Pablo"
I wanted to leave something behind in cyber space of my singing years.
We only recorded one little 45 with two songs.
One of them "Que Maravilla" ( How Marvelous) hit the first place on Chilean musical rankings, staying for 16 weeks as a number two.

( it gave me a gold record)
We were very young, Pablo was 21 and I was 20, he was in the

Music school and I was in the Drama school, both at the University of Chile.
The Chilean public loved our fresh clean cut looks, they enjoyed that we sang in many languages ( Pablo was the son of the Chilean Ambassador to France, and I was the daughter of the Air Force Attachee to the Chilean Embassy in Rome) so he had perfect French accent and I did great in Italian songs
We had plenty in common, were very good friends, and pretended on stage to have a crush on each other..lol
the fans loved it.
And so for two wonderful years we were the toast of the town, with fan club and all.
Looking back now, we were very lucky to be young and talented at the right time and in the right place.
Here are the links to the new blogs, please leave me comments, so I know what boo boos to correct if any.
xoxoxo
Sonia Paz

http://www.myspace.com/pachiypablo
http://www.elblogdepachiypablo.blogspot.com/

http://usuarios.lycos.es/coyan22/videos/Videos14.htm

http://deletras.cl/music/Pachi+Y+Pablo/_/Que+Maravilla

I have added a video

Hello my friends,

I have added a video from an Argentinean comedy group called "Les Luthiers"
They have been around for 30 years or so. South Americans love them, very formal in their tuxedos, with funny home made instruments, they have incredible talent, their voices and music is great. But what they sing about is the fun part.
I hope you enjoy them, there is a English translations to go along with it.
Please scroll down my blog page.

Sonia Paz

A funny video of our family

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A wonderful day with my grandson Zachary

Hello everyone,

Today was wonderful, I spent it with my grandson Zachary who is 3

He arrived early, brought in by his other grandma Kai, as soon as he was here he asked me to go to the kitchen and said "Grandma Pachi please make me a big glass of " Milo with warm milk" (I brought Milo from Chile, a kind of chocolate malt) and we climbed in my bed to play with my laptop. I uploaded a bunch of toddler's games and he remained entertained for a long time painting and seeing baby animals.

We got in my car and went to the store " Dollar Tree" and we bought a pile of toys and things for Christmas.

Later we went to the airport and we had lunch in the terrace of the restaurant that faces the runway, since whenever he comes for a visit (he lives in Nevada near Lake Tahoe,) he loves to watch the airplanes take off and land, when one comes for a landing he counts from 5 down and when the airplane touches the ground he yells " touchdown! " he makes me smile, I am sure he will be a pilot some day.

He had french fries with ketchup and an orange juice and I had a bowl of fresh fruit, (of course he took all my grapes)

On the way home we saw smoke over one of hills and like a good fireman's son he is, he asked me to "go and investigate" so we started off to watch and there was a fire on the hill, luckily there was no wind and the firemen already were extinguishing it, airplanes and helicopters were throwing water.

Hopefully they extinguish it completely, because winds are expected tonight and it would be horrible if houses burn like in Malibu last month.

Later we returned home and Dimitri got from school and they sat together to play videos in the living room. It melts my heart to see them side by side happily, the uncle and the nephew.

Soon Kai came to pick him up and he went away; "promising to return tomorrow and to spend the night with me ".

We went with Dimitri to the store " Vons" to buy buffalo wings and roasted potatoes and

we took them to the school, where I fed 45 soccer players!

All of the moms take turns, feeding once a week the high school soccer team.

We just arrive home and I am in my bed, it is cold, (the weather guy says that will freeze tonight, hopefully my plants will survive)

Dimitri is down stairs doing his homework and everything is peaceful.

thank you, thank you, thank you universe…

~~~~~~~___/)~~~~* Sonia Paz

Pascale's new post

Dear Friends,

I am pleased and proud to announce that Pascale Baron has been promoted to

Executive Director of Mellowswan Foundation South America.

She will oversee the all of South America Mellowswan Foundation's work, and will bring the deformed orphans to Santiago, Chile to have corrective surgeries done by Chilean doctors.

Also we welcome Claudia Castaneda, Maria Jose de la Barra, Ignacio Luengo, Alvaro Vergara and Kimberly Oram to the Chilean team.

I am so happy that Mellowswan Foundation has young people working for our cause, it gives me hope that my dream will continue for generations to come.

thank you, thank you , thank you universe

Sonia Paz