Block Party

There was a block party last Saturday.  S found a flyer and it sounded fun, so we went.  It did not disappoint. They had games, dancing, singing, a little food, and other stuff.  It was super fun.

My favorite thing about this block party was the free hair cuts offered to anyone!!!  The boys didn't need a haircut quite yet but I wasn't going to pass an opportunity to avoid paying for 3 haircuts!  I wish I had a video of the glare the boys were giving me but it might not be as funny to anyone else.

The games were awesome, pick up sticks, chess, checkers, and tick-tack-toe.  All game pieces were huge and you played them walking around.  They also had stilts, drawing, and other things I didn't venture to find out.  I am still not very good at my Spanish, (I am trying not to get frustrated with myself).

And of course it ended with a live band and dancing.  Okay, actually they ended the party with live Lucha libre, (wrestling).  S and the older kids stayed for awhile for that but the younger ones and I went home.  I don't know if I will ever be able to attend another block party and not be disappointed. :-)

Book Fair, One of the largest in the world

Getting ready to go on the bus.  Yes we had to wait it the shade, we were sweating in the sun.

This is us entering the fair.  It was huge!

 I had to take a picture of theses Harry Potter books.  I am not a Harry Potter fan, but I might collect the books if I get to have those cool colors on my bookshelf!  This whole fair was filled with super cool book displays!!  I might become a book collector just to have cool book displays around my house.

 My Girls love Roald Dahl.  But they weren't willing to read them in Spanish.  Wimps!!

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had a booth at this fair.  I heard that a local stake was running the booth the booth.  I wasn't sure what to expect.  Would it be small, I didn't know.  When we found it, I was amazed at the beauty and grandeur of it.  I don't know why I was so surprised at how large the booth was.  The church never disappoints!  We had to go so Helaman could visit with his friend Captain Moroni!

The picture behind C and Z is a puzzle.  If you look closely at the top left you will see how many pieces there are.  Way too many for me, but I am sure there are a few of my family members that would love to try a puzzle like that!

 This is an example of the types of cool books at this place.  There was everything.  Unfortunately, for the kids, the only books we bought were English grammar books for the kid's homeschool.  They were not happy about that.  Luckily for me all the books were in Spanish or otherwise I am sure the kids might have asked for a lot more books and we might not have been able to afford a flight back home. :)

We ended up ending the day with a perfect dinner of tacos.  I am sure you all were surprised to see soda.  We usually don't order anything to drink.  We always have our water.  Everyone is so confused when we don't order any drinks.  It is pretty funny.  But in this situation the soda came with the meal.

Cookies

Okay here is a funny story!

We have not been having a lot of sugar or treats lately.  So, apparently, we having been having sugar withdrawals.  I finally decided to make some cookies.  I splurged!  Butter here is kind of expensive, but we were desperate! :-)

X and I got together and started baking.  We had a few bumps as we started, (butter here is only sold in kilos) and the measuring system is different. This wouldn't have mattered anyway, as there where no measuring cups of any sort to be found in our apartment.  We were not going to let that stop us though.   X found a cup that looked roughly similar to the measuring system that I was used to.  I guessed with the amount of butter, and luckily, I didn't have to refigure 2 eggs. That one was easy!

Once everything was mixed, I realized that this apartment does not carry a baking sheet.  So I told X to look around and see if there was anything I could bake on.  She opened the cupboards and found a round metal sheet.  Well it would work.  Who knows, maybe here, baking sheets are round?  So we washed it and used it.  It worked like a charm.

After we all enjoyed our cookies, S asked what we baked the cookies on.  I said I don't know we just found a round sheet and used it.  S then said, "You didn't use the garbage can lid to bake the cookies on, did you?!!?"  When I looked at our round baking sheet, I realized he was right! Hahaha
 Oh well! At least we washed it first, and isn't that what cooking is for anyway, to kill all the germs?  In my defense, the lid looks nice.  I mean it is not like Oscar the Grouch's trash can lid!

our trash lid cookie sheet