Outdoor Adventure

I lead both Tia and Sara's Brownie troops and both groups had fun earning their "outdoor adventure" patch last week. I really was at a loss trying to think of how the girls could get out on an adventure hike in this "concrete jungle". Jakarta has no parks and there are not even sidewalks on most streets.

As it turns out, "no plan" often leads to the funnest adventures.

On Monday Sara's 2nd grade troop went for an adventure hike through the jungle (rice padi their school classes had planted) and pretended they were all being chased by tigers, snakes, etc. They ended up meeting with the boyscouts to create artwork of their own jungle.

On Wed. Tia's 3rd grade troop met at my house. Just as we began preparing for a short walk around the neighborhood, it STARTED RAINING. (REALLY HARD). Somehow my co-leader and I found umbrellas for each of the 13 scouts and off we went. There was plenty of complaining in the beginning but by the time we'd wading through our 2nd ankle deep "river" flowing down the flooded streets, most girls were laughing, splashing each-other, and "singing in the rain". Of course they were all completely soaked when we returned so they all just jumped, fully-clothed into our pool.

I guess this warm rain IS a benefit to living near the equator. :-) Love ya, Paula

Easter

Happy Easter Everyone! We've had a nice Easter day here and hope you all are enjoying yours.

Sara was our family member extra excited for Easter this year. She made her own recipe of cookies and left one plus a carrot for the Easter Bunny last night, and

woke us all at 6AM this morning.

In no time she and her sister had found all the eggs and goodies hidden by the Easter Bunny. Tia even convinced our kitty, Loui to help.

After Easter brunch at one of our favorite restaruants, Din Tai Fung, we watched the 3D Dragon movie. It was cute.

I'd read the Easter passage from Sara's children's bible several times the past week and was pleased to hear Tia eplain to Grandma the reason for Easter. "The day Jesus came back to life". It's fun to hear them explain their beliefs in their own words. The other fun book we read today was The Velveteen Rabbit. Such a sweet story.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter and a nice weekend!Love ya, paula

April Fool's Day

Happy April Fool's Day Everyone! Tia and Sara tried to drink their juice with breakfast but they couldn't suck it up through the straw cause it was jello. Gotta love giggles first thing in the morning. Then when they opened their little boxes of rasins at lunch, they were filled with chocolate chips. :-)

Sara's been playing with the whoopie cushion all evening and the next morning with Daddy. :-)