Well, we have been keeping busy on the homefront. With hubby starting his pator internship at our church, the car has been around a lot less then when he was solely running the home-based business, but it seems we have been able to get out of the house more often. Funny how that seems to work.
Today we went to downtown Chandler for the Multicultural Festival. It was a great day. We spent about four hours there and made out pretty well! It was free admission, although we did pay for luch which was a taco-style fry bread and a sweet fry bread for dessert. The man running the booth had John 3:16 posted on his banner so that often sways us in the direction of supporting those fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. It happens that this gentleman was a widower. His wife died two years ago, and as he says with a smile, "She left me with three girls and her fry bread recipe...what more could I have asked God for?"
We went to an oral presentation of the history of Chandler that was performed by a character actress. It was very good because it held the attention of our children. We were actually the youngest couple in the group...I think everyone else was over fifty. It reminded of how our society has drifted so far away from grabbing the wisdom of our elders. I want our children to see that we really can learn from the past and those who have been there first.
We got to watch performances by Samoan (sp?) dancers that included all the island shaking of the hips and beating of the chest as well as a fire dance. We watched a Babylonian dance as well as a dance from Mexico in all their beautiful dresses. As it was wrapping up and we were heading out, they made an announcement that the library was having a sale on all the books they brought out to sell. Get this...$2.00 for all the books you could fit in a box! It was great! We walked away with 24 National Geographics...almost all of them have maps in them which is why I grabbed them up for schooling, as well as about 50 others. Great family day!
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• Jan. 17, 2006 - Good Friends
The multicultural festival you went to this weekend sounds awesome! You were telling me a bit about it during our chat, but I enjoyed reading the longer version on your blog. That really is a smokin' deal you got on those books! ;-) And, mmmm.... fry bread!!! Makes me miss living in the Southwest! The Samoan dancing reminds me of our trip to Disneyworld when we were fourteen and we went to the luau at the Polynesian Resort. Good times.
God bless you today, chica!