Live from the field

Last night when I got home from work the kids were both asleep in preparation for the late night at Carrasauga. We began the night at the Greece pavilion with the kids coloring Greek flags and writing their names in Greek. Then we headed to Cyprus where they fed us tons of food including some fried cheese which was the best cheese I've ever tasted. Mazie watched and fell in love with the belly dancer and I am afraid to say we are going to be having our 5 year old mimicking this belly dancer for a long time to come. What can I say? There is nothing I could have done honestly. Because they gave us tons of food and the kids had already had their souvlaki, they weren't hungry. Drew was fasting so who had to eat all that pork? You guessed it. Drew called it taking one for the team. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera so I have no pics of Mazie belly dancing. We also went to the Phillipines, India, and Egypt. It was late and Leo complained of his brain hurting so we didn't do much dancing. We did buy Leo a light up sword however. We came home with a plate full of fried lady fingers. Sorry, I can't remember the Greek name but they have walnuts in the middle and are dripping w/ honey. Daktila? Not really sure.
We tried to sleep upstairs to keep Kuma company and hopefully get a better night sleep but at midnight the kids weren't doing so well in the same bed and the giggles weren't stopping so we had to go back downstairs. We thought the late night might encourage sleeping in but Leo is one for sticking to a schedule and demanded breakfast early this morning. You guessed it - a fried egg which I told him I would only make for him on the weekends. Then we shlept (Is that right?0ut for garage sale hunting. It is sunny and warm and they were out in full force. We discovered that on this side of the tracks people are stingy (a childs bike with a hole in the seat for $80! and books at .25 each). On the other side books are only .10 each. So, here is a list of our find:

• 3 Mickey Mouse glasses from 2000. We had 1 we bought in NYC at Burger King. It was our favorite glass so we decided to get them all and now we have the complete set.
• A Barbie bus ($3.00) We passed on the Barbie suitcase filled with tons of small accoutrements
• 2 Gap sweatshirts for Leo
• snow pants for Leo for next winter
• 2 sets of new golf balls - why I have no idea
• Books for the kids (Judy Blume for when Mazie learns to read)
• Squirters (not guns but you fill em with a bucket and they squirt)
• Some Superheros and little hand held video game thingy's
• Batman lunch box with thermos
  We did pass on the tv trays that Drew had growing up and he said were great for forts as well as some retro chairs that were really sweet.

Now we're getting ready to head back to Serbia, Hawaii, Mexico and Greece. We hope to hit Germany and Canada tomorrow. Unfortunately the face painting has left Mazie with a severe rash on her face. I'm hoping the Benadryl doesn't put a cramp in our style. I brought it in case Leo ate something and had a reaction but it turns out these days its Mazie we worry about. There's a ban on pesticides in our city and the dandelions are in full force and she seems to be severly allergic to them. We weren't able to go to the park across from the street sale we found which had a rock wall. Too bad.