Sao Vicente Island

the bay of mindelo (monte cara in the background)

casa cafe mindelo...>>:...the cafe

casa cafe mindelo (www.casacafemindelo.com) need i say more??!?
there is much more to mindelo then the casa cafe mindelo but this is a good example of what there is...

mama at the cafe

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dada at the cafe

weekend in Maio Island

we went to Maio Island for the weekend and I got sick so spent all of saturday like this. Good thing we stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast called casita verde (http://www.casita-verde.de/) so it was more tolerable (if one can consider being sick tolerable)

we went to the beach at the end of the day...i enjoyed the seabreeze but was still not quite myself

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mama insisted on going to the salt marshes and she was almost turned into salt. she sank in knee deep and lost her slippers...also got covered in black sooth that burned her skin....uncle tony who is from maio said that if it was the rainy season (the one time mama was happy it barely rains in cabo verde!) she would have been swallowed...i did not know all of this but knew something was up and screamed as loud as i could (i have a lot of practice screaming so that was no problem). i am glad my mom survived the salt monster

it got hot...mama will tell you since she lost her flip flops at the marsh ....she was walking abrefoot in the heat ...yeah...cobble stones get hot in the mid day sun

some images of maio

composition in blue.white and orange

under the pier

Ruby and Neyma

mama´s activities at the research center

semi-official photo of cidlotians

mama and tia andreia got an article published in the paper. they are saying something about framing it...

they are organizing some big event called art.urban occupation.development and this means mama is working crazy hours and therefore i am acting up a lot to make her life even more difficult

me, my hair and i

it is only my mama who i do not allow to brush/comb/touch my hair
here is a masterpiece hairdo by jandira my new nanny (she cooks for me, bathes me, puts me to nap, cleans my mess...i let her do my hair and i listen to her (as opposed to my mama)

my favorite color is pink (to mama's horror) and i LOVE everything princess (mama hates this...says something about fantasy, disney brainwashing, not strong women role models, etc. but i have no clue what she is talking about, every time i say 'princess' she says 'no, they are just girls' but it does not stick with me.
i tell her all the time she is a princess, i am a princess, dada is a princess, vovo is a princess...
i am not sure but i think mama sometimes is close to loosing her mind...

my forced-for-the-camera smile

cheecks are still going strong

pointing to the princess on the pink ball (ooops i hear mama screaming!)

my new (empty) apartment

with borrowed furniture

i like brian...

outing to Rui Vaz

we went on an outing with mama's coworkers from the university. we went to rui vaz (inland) and had a great lunch. i ate catchupa and ran around like a chicken without a head...as usual.


sr. salvador, sr. ze marques, chissana e andreia


me, mama and andreia

mama and andreia (cidlotianas-mama's partner at theresearch center)

me and leticia

i take flrowers...i put flowers in my head