Visit the Erazone
snapshots.jpg (4251 bytes) More recent snapshots are posted here. Older ones are in the archives.
Christmas 2001 This year's Christmas celebration started with a weekend at the mountain cabin of Norm and Dottie Lord in Big Bear Lake in the San Bernadino Mountains and ended at our home in San Diego. Cristian and Stacy joined us as this is an odd-numbered year.
Click to Enlarge Rick's birthday at the Erazos. Note the unfinished fireplace behind Cristian.
Click to Enlarge With no fireplace mantel (yet), the stockings were hung on the drawers with care.
Click to Enlarge Karina and Chris depart in snowboarding gear for Bear Mountain.
Click to Enlarge Carol and Stacy at Big Bear Lake (with Taco & Camilo).
Click to Enlarge Son & Father at Big Bear Lake.
Click to Enlarge A view of the village of Big Bear Lake from the wildlife trail. Snow Summit (8200ft/2500m) and its ski runs are in the background, and Bear Mountain (8805ft/2680m) is  on the left . The lake is at 6750ft (2060m).
Click to Enlarge Stacy and Cristian at Big Bear Lake.
Click to Enlarge Stacy and Camilo.
Click to Enlarge Camilo and Taco opening gifts.
Click to Enlarge Camilo and his new toy.
Click to Enlarge Taco exhausted.
Tito y Michu The following were taken in early December, 2001 in Santiago, Chile. The occasion is the civil matrimony*  of Carol's nephew Ernesto "Tito" Otaegui and Michelle "Michu" Diemer. The church wedding will take place in April, 2002 (photos to be posted here).
Click to enlarge Carol and Tito outside the civil registry.
Click to enlarge The bride and groom and their parents.
Click to enlarge Awarding the certificate of matrimony.
Click to enlarge Tito's mother and grandfather with Michu and Tito.
Click to enlarge Carol and Tito.
*In Chile, matrimony is a two-stage process. Since marriage is both a civil and religious institution, the procedures are performed separately. Chile is a legalistic country, and has codified distinctions between civil oaths (with their social and legal implications) and religious vows. Since the state, not the clergy, issues the marriage certificate, the state exercises its oversight of the marriage contract (which, like all contracts, requires the consent of both parties to be altered), while the church (if the couple elect to follow up with a church nuptial), exercises its own traditional sacramental role apart from that of the state.