Carmen: February 2008

Monday, February 25, 2008

Lake Worth Street Painting Festival

Once again we went to the street painting festival in Lake Worth and we loved it. People are so talented! It rained for a short time after we arrived so some of the paintings were wet when we saw them but they were still beautiful.

I posted all of the pictures in the Picasa album so hopefully you can see it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mayanfamiliesphotos/LakeWorthStreetPaintingFestival?pli=1

After the festival we went to the beach. We did not have any towels or change of clothes for the kids but they went in the water and had lots of fun. They were nude on the ride home!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Kooky Pens

If you have never heard of Kooky pens you are a lucky person! Don and I have heard so much about them it is sickening. Lots of kids around here are collecting and trading them and Carlos and Titi have started too. They do not talk about anything else! The moment they get off the school bus they start asking me if I can take them to the store to get more and then we get home and they want to run to the computer to go to the Kooky site to watch the videos made by kids. Then it is Kooky this and Kooky that and they know all the names and they are surprised I cannot remember which is Gunther, Thurston or Mystee???

They want to get one or two for Valentine's so I went to the store this morning and they only had 4 different ones. Last Friday they had so many. The salesperson told me they had sold 800 last week. Then I met the mother of one of Carlos' classmates at the supermarket and she told me she had just gone to another store and that they were out of them.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Farm Tour

Yesterday we went to the annual tour of the farm where we have our vegetable subscription. This is the second year we attend and this time Mema came with us. We had a really nice time and Mema said she enjoyed it too.

We were able to pick some tomatoes, carrots, turnips and greens and like last year, the kids loved pulling the carrots from the ground. Titi got some nice purple and white carrots! She was wearing her cool shorts from Guatemala and she looked cool!

After the tour we had a potluck lunch. I brought a shrimp salad. Most, if not, all the dishes were vegetarian and they were really good. I love trying new dishes. We met a Japanese man and his photographer daughter, very interesting people. He designed gardens at Morikami. She is trying to start a community garden and I hope she can do it.