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We took a ferry from Tarifa to Tangier, Morocco. We arrived in Tarifa around 10am, parked the car, and bought our ferry tickets. In Tangier we were bombarded with tour guides when we got off the boat. We managed to walk into the city and avoid all the guides. We explored the city. We walked through the market full of fresh meat, produce and seafood. We had lunch at Hamadi restaurant. I had vegetable couscous, Ryan had lamb. After, we all had hot mint tea and Moroccan sweets.
After lunch we went shopping- Moroccan rug shopping. We stopped in a shop and Mohammed attempted to sell us rugs while we sipped on mint tea. We bought a large blanket. After shopping we wandered back to the boat.

We brought in the New Year in Spain.  On New Year’s Eve our Spanish family all gathered at La Misa for an amazing dinner with multiple courses – seafoods, meats and more!  After the meal we all gathered in the living room to sing and watch the New Year’s broadcasted on TV.  At Midnight, we ate 12 grapes, one grape at each bell.  Then we headed out to meet up with friends at a bar.  Happy 2013!

We participated in the 2012 Lowertown SantaCon bar crawl.

 

We dressed Christmas-y.

 

 

 

 

 

There was a fire show mid-crawl.

 

There wasn’t too much to survive. The fresh snow confused the dogs when we went out for our morning walk. Dolores peed right outside the condo building door in the snow. When I finally got the dogs to the dog park, they ran hyper through the snow – well, Chata plowed through the snow and Dolores bounded.

The great thing about living in a condo is we don’t have to shovel sidewalks or the drive.

The St. Paul Union Depot celebrated their grand re-opening. It was neat to see the finished project. It is a beautiful space now. Maybe one day we will even take a high-speed train out west or somewhere.

 

We soaked up some Mexican sun, or rather burned under the Mexican sun, while visiting some friends.

There’a always time for a crab fight. Carrie won. Twice.

On Thanksgiving we went for a hike at Frontenac State Park, just south of Red Wing. Hiking around we found a ravine full of rusted out classic cars.

 

The weather was beautiful when we started out. We drove home in the snow!

Ryan has been excited about living on a houseboat for over a year now. He has been looking and researching life on houseboats for awhile. So, we finally toured a St. Paul Marina (Watergate Marina) and looked at a couple houseboats.

Check out this link to visit a blog of one of the families that lives all year on their houseboat in St. Paul.

We visited the Science Museum of MN in downtown St. Paul. We saw Tornado Alley at the Omni-theather and explored the exhibits.

We added 2 new pennies to our flattened penny collection!