Great day

yesterday, Sunday, beto and santi and i went up to Culver to go to church. It was a lot of fun. I got to see a lot of really amazing old friends. I always love visiting there. Of course nobody really wanted to see us, just Santiago. he is always the star.
After church Rona and Sherwood (my other parents) took us out to one of my favorite places "le boulangerie" or something spelled similarly. It's a laid back french restaurant with amazing food, nice atmosphere and rude french waiters. not really. need i say more?
we came home to find three nerds sitting in our living room...shelby, mitchie and nina dressed up for Long Beach church's harvest festival that was last night. Marcus and Gabe dressed up as ninja turtles. they made their own costumes and all five of them looked inspiring to say the least. i am so proud of all of them! and CONGRATS TO MARCUS ON HIS AWESOME GRADES! I OWE YOU AN ICE CREAM!

The harvest festival was really fun. lot's of activities and games for the kids, and adults too. the soup buffet was super delicious and then of course there was all the halloween candy.

Santi didn't dress up. We've decided not to participate really in Halloween. Central american's take on Halloween is much more serious and different than here. I was glad beto went last night though because he said it was much different...and better than he expected and was happy he went and got to see how the church "celebrates" the season.

santi had fun but was wiped out. he fell asleep in the car and so that was an easy way to put him to bed. i was so tired too i went to bed at 9pm.

today we had a fun time with aunt cindy. she took us to breakfast at polly's. we came home and played and called "aunt rhonda", our friend from honduras who's visiting her home state of georgia for awhile. then i took a much needed nap and santi's still napping.

tonight we've been invited over to the house of some great friends. they are the parents of my best friend from high school. they just live a few blocks from here where she grew up. i'm really looking forward to it. thanks alan and linda! it'll be a lot of fun.