Big Dino and the Unexpected Wedding
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Mar 01, 2006
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Plaza Huincul,
Argentina
Friday, April 20, 2007
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I had planned to go away in the afternoon, back to the lake district and the Andes.
In the morning I went to visit the museum in Plaza Huincul (that{s what I had come for originally). It hosts the fossils of Argentinosaurus Huinculensis, the biggest dinosaur in the wooooooorld. Yes sir.
Actually they found "only" a few vertebraes and pieces of a hip, but that was enough to classify the owner as part of the titanosaurus familly, who are the big herbivorous dinos.
The fossils were found a few kilometers from Plaza Huincul, hence the name. There were a few other exhibits in the museum, including some items that belong to the "history" of the city, founded a century ago around the oil industry.
The "real size" reproduction of the skeleton was impresisve, but that was all. What had really struck me on the day before was really the view of fossiles on their dicovery site: fossiles still trapped in the rock, slolwly being excavated, suddenly giving these "animals" a reality which felt... real!
As for fossiles, the locals all have petrified wood and bones at home, that they found in the countryside around the city.
Back to Laura's for lunch (we finished the tartiflette with some famous Argentinian steaks).
And then off to decoration workshop: the neighbourg was getting married, and Laura was in charge of the decoration of the wedding/dining room. So I figured out I could go give a hand before leaving, and Jessica came too, and we did a fabulous job.
And then we were invited to the wedding too. So I stayed.
The wedding was nothing huge, it wasjust a civil wedding to officialize what had been a couple for already a long time. But it was really nice, and I was at the table with all of Laura's familly: parents, brother and sister with their partners and even the little niece!
There was the ceremony, and then the food, and then the dancing (at which I am hopelessly bad), and everybody had a good time.
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