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We don’t have any videos to post yet, so for the moment enjoy this video of our friend Randy’s adorable puppy.

In Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, we paid 30 cents to feed the pigeons.

In a place called Punta Tombo, in southern Argentina, you can walk among the largest colony of penguins outside of Antarctica.

At the zoo in Mendoza, Argentina, the lions were very talkative and only two feet away from the intrepid hedgehogs.

Iguazú Falls, Argentina, is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. (This video is a little bit noisy: it’s the fault of the millions of gallons of water pouring by in the background!)

Tim turned 30 in Arequipa, Peru. Some local Peruvian musicians were playing at the restaurant where the hedgehogs had dinner, and Jessica got them to play “Happy Birthday”.

In Huacachina, Peru, the hedgehogs went sandboarding. Tim tended to do pretty well for a few seconds, then it would all go horribly wrong.

High in the Andes mountains sits glorious Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas.

Deep in the Amazon Rain Forest, we were taught to fire a blowgun. In the distance (too small to see in this video) a papaya is masquerading as the “monkey” Jessica is hunting.

On Isla Española in the Galapagos, the wave albatrosses do an elaborate courting dance. Listen closely to this video: the sounds they make are adorable.

The Galapagos Islands are named after the giant tortoises that inhabit them (galapagos is Spanish for “tortoise”). The hedgehogs came across these two tortoises on Isla Santa Cruz. (We were whispering to try not to scare them, so you might have to turn up your volume.)

On our last full day in the Galapagos, we were sailing for Isla San Cristobal, and the airport. Imagine our surprise when hundreds of dolphins surrounded the boat, giving us a real Galapagos send-off. (Very windy video, so you won’t be able to make out much of what anyone is saying. Make sure to turn your volume back down if you just watched the tortoises.)

In Malaga, Spain we enjoyed watching some performers juggle fire while riding unicycles!

In Muslim countries the call to prayer can be heard five times a day as it is sung by someone at each local mosque. We were particularly fond of the call to prayer that came from the mosque located behind our hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. If you listen closely you’ll also hear other calls to prayer echoing off the city’s buildings.

Our primary reason for visiting Turkey was to take a hot-air balloon ride over an area called Cappadocia. This video shows what it looks like when you first leave the ground in a balloon!

Floating high over Cappadocia…

We stayed for 17 days in Cappadocia in a town called Goreme. While there we took many walks among the “fairy chimneys.”

Hundreds of years ago, early Christians carved churches inside many of the fairy chimneys of Turkey. This video shows some particularly gorgeous paintings inside the “Dark Church.” (Named so because little light reaches inside the cave.)

In this video, Tim walks through a particularly large fairy chimney. This video is rather long, so those viewers with slower connections might want to skip it. (Also, the light changes often during the video as he goes in and out of different rooms.)

There are lots of walks to go on in Cappadocia. One of our favorites involved navigating down a rather steep stone ladder of sorts.

When in Turkey, one must drink apple tea and smoke it from a water pipe too. Don’t worry, Mom and Dad: that’s only tea that Tim is smoking!

Now here’s something really amazing: the hedgehogs are actually mailing postcards! We’re at a mailbox in Istanbul, Turkey, located between the Blue Mosque and the Aya Sofia. Few postcards have been mailed from such a picturesque location!

It’s Christmas in Thailand, and we’re ready to celebrate. At a Bangkok supemarket, we bought a ridiculous quantity of Christmas decorations with which to entirely cover our hotel room.

One of our favorite rooms ever, at a place called the Blue Lagoon on the island of Ko Chang. The asthetics of mosquito netting are underappreciated by many people.

In the delightful Cambodian town of Kampot, there is a traditional music school for orphans and the disabled. They practice nightly, and visitors are welcome to stop by to listen. Might be rather loud.

In Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, we witnessed the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Here, two men in a dragon (or is it a Fu dog?) costume balance on a giant ball as they roll across a see-saw.

Ah, the infamous tarantula video! Here, Jessica consumes a deep-fried tarantula, as described in this post. Not suitable for arachnophobes.

In the shadows of looming Angkor Wat, a gang of monkeys fight over some fruit. Very cute.

There are no words to describe how enormous and breathtaking the temples at Angkor are. This video was taken while we explored the temple of Preah Khan, a few kilometers northeast of Angkor Wat.