went to the lilac festival of courseand after we had dinner at the boxwood cafe! organic, local, cute, lovely.. tasty food tasty tea.. was a lovely sunday, I like to go to these activities more for the people watching, seeing all the interesting people that live here, soaking up cultures, buying some handmade goodies (I got rock earrings)
lots of the stuff at the festival is the same as all those places.. people go to Thailand buy stuff for a dollar and come back here and sell it for 50 bucks. Being one that has been to Southeast Asia.. I'm toooo smart for that silliness
HOWEVER
weeeee got adorable soft comfy fuzzy handmade slippers!
a wonderful blanket
and a toque! (thats looks good on both of us!)
successssssssss!!
they are from Nepal.. and all the money that we spent goes straight back to Nepal and helping kids schooling and stuff!! OH MAN those are my favourite kinds of purchaces.. where we all end up helping each other out! we wanted slippers cause our basement is cold and we've talked about getting slippers..
Aryk's house burned down so he will need a toque in the winter...
annnnnd who doesn't like a blanket?
sooo.. pretty much those things would have been bought anyways..
BUT THIS WAY THE MONEY GOES TO SOMETHING AWESOME!
we are excited..
not to mention the slippers are great for sliding across the floor!
Not a POSITIVE note.. but a POSITIVE THING for the FUTURE! please leave your dogs at home.. looking at the dogs at the festival.. they are NOT happy! they are panting and putting their tails between their legs from the heat, loud noises, crowds of people, people stepping on their feet. maybe take the time to take your dogs to the dog park.. they will enjoy that a whole lot more!(p.s this blog would be more exciting but it seems the computer is doing something which I do not know why and will not let me correct anything.. highlight anything.. put in photos.. arrange anything etc.. SOOO its a sign for me to leave it be.. annnnd you get what you get!)