Quinta Ames

When we lived in Venezuela we were always amazed that the streets weren't organized by a numbering system.  Each house was named and that name displayed out front, usually on a tile plaque.  Our driver, Daniel, would drive up and down the street looking for the house by its name.  It always seemed like such an inefficient system (or non-system) but we got used to it, and when leaving Venezuela we decided to have a tile name plate made to take back to Calgary.  One day I told Daniel that we were trying to decide what to call our house.  He seemed so puzzled that I didn't know our house name and that we used numbers instead.  Then he surprised me even more with the question, "then how do you find your way around?".

Once again I was reminded that life is all a matter of perspective and mine isn't the only one.  Since that time, a "Quinta Ames" tile plaque has proudly displayed the location of each of our homes.  Today Brian hung the sign to indicate that we are officially here.

As we've been meeting many new people here, we've learned that a common practice is to exchange cards with contact information.  It's a nice practice that prevents writing a phone number on the back of a napkin and then throwing it away or losing it.  So here is another indicator of our residency.