Rio Negro - Amparo Puerta's farm

Hi - yesterday we had a pretty amazing day up at a farm in Rio Negro.  The farm is so beautiful and is simply serene.  We went up with Elba, Sofia, Conrado and Marta, and spent the day there.  Amparo is a sweet and lovely hostess, we were treated with such grace and kindness (just like Lucia, we are so lucky!).  We relaxed and had an awesome lunch. You would not believe that I let the kids ride ATVs (even Joaquin had a little ATV). It was really cool, fun, safe and those things really didn't go very fast.  Adrian went zooming off, Nicolas was totally into it and took the last ride, and Joaquin drove his little truck all day.  We were given another amazing opportunity to ride a really, really nice horse (note the branding).  Adrian was ready to rock and take off but let's just say in everyone's best interest he was led around the lawn.  Oscar and I also were led around, let's leave the real riding to the professionals, shall we?  Such a beautiful horse, wow.  Tomorrow off to Rio Negro and Farallones so blog will be updated Monday.  (By the way - Garzon is fine and the meeting with Chavez went well.)