Soon after his first art show in Palermo, we took city-slicker Henry to Mendoza province for a dose of the farming life.

Mendoza + San Rafael

Now that he's 2, Henry requires his own seat on flights. It's an expense but a privilege he enjoys thoroughly. On the flight out (pictured), he drew. By the time we flew back 5 days later, he had grown tired of sketching (we brought out those same crayons and pencils at many a Mendocina meal), but we had a new trick up our sleeves. We downloaded a 6-minute Donald Duck clip from youtube.com (with Danish subtitles, but I don't think he noticed) to play back on board. I think Henry watched Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie scrabbling in the snow oh, 7 or 8 times. Meanwhile, I read the newspaper front to back for the first time in a long while.

(Click on the image above to see a small album of Mendoza/San Rafael photos.)