We had an awesome time preparing for our HS group's Geography Day.  It was really more like International Day, but who's counting LOL.

We had a very good turnout with 12 countries being talked about.  Each family brought a poster with info on their country, some items from their country, and a native/typical food item.  Given DH's background we chose Argentina :)  My MIL did a wonderful job making a mini poster to go on our big poster, she even taped a map on it and pointed out some interesting things.  Then she came over last Friday to babysit (lunch out alone with DH - yay!) and talked about the things she put down and showed the kids some art and a tea set from Argentina.  I did some more research on my own, but talked about it with the kids as we put the poster together.  They're a bit too young to pick and choose appropriate topics and pull pertinent info out. MIL also made alfajores for us to take, they were a big hit. 

I was so impressed with my big kids and how they went from table to table, listening closely to each mini presentation.  Then they did so nicely when we did ours, although I apparently forgot to let Abby  talk :(  I had asked but thought she said no.  She was OK with it, though, as she got the job of putting the Argentina flag stickers on everyone's "passports."

We had to leave early to get home so DH could go to work (Patrick was home napping), so we missed the flag making craft and a game.  Hopefully this will be a yearly event, though, we all really enjoyed it.