Family Runion - Day Twenty Eight

yesterday was the reunion of 1/3 of my entire family... on my mother's side. some of my favourite people were there and from the minute i walked into the door it was filled with exchanges of information of what was happening in the other persons life. it was great to see a lot of those people in such a positive light. there were some members absent from my a long time fight of about four years but i got to see those cousins the following day.
its really great when you have a younger cousin that you always knew had the potential to grow up and be someone you could have an engaging conversation with. the other option at these these gatherings is to try avoid topics like "how fat everyone has gotten." can you imagine a society where THE FIRST THING out of people's mouths, 8 times out of 10, is "wow you've gotten big" OR "you look so great that you've lost that weight" OR "you look so wonderful and skinny." the worst is when they don't say anything at all and then 10 minutes later they nudge the person next to them and whisper; "poor woman, she gained all that weight." if you can suck all that back and still have your sanity, you're in a good position. daniella has even felt how different everyone has treated her since she lost 20 pounds. i think six or seven people, at random, have mention to me in a conversation how great they think daniella looks since she lost the weight.

that's.
CHILE.

during all of this, as i was telling one of my aunts (she was behind the camera) and a bunch of cousins in this picture



about my trip to BOLIVIA, the woman just blurts out at random "BOLIVIANS are so ugly." that one was toughest ones to swallow and continue because of my film in BOLIVIA's objective... i stopped for a bit in shock and moved on. luckily her daughter was there to catch my hiccup with "oh great! here comes the colour commentary." at the end of the day one of my brilliant uncles decided to sit on a the glass table with his son and within seconds went right through it. broke the whole fucking table. i couldn't believe. luckily nobody was hurt but !BOY! did he feel stupid. no one really likes him anyways.

BEN and PABLO stayed in our room the entire time and rested. i decided that it just wasn't worth the hassle of explaining to forty people why the cameras were there.

in the end i had a fantastic time and i ducked out before sunset to go finish the day with my crew to shoot some exteriors of wonderful place LA QUINTA REGION.

(DANIEL, CATARINA, my mom, dad and the crew are in the other room filming - the kids are at the table eating breakfast and singing this super cute song about a snake being the grass - im here in the other room hiding.)