Happy Mother's Day

Here we are, on a beautiful Sunday morning that is dedicated entirely to saying thank you to the people in our lives who have influenced us and helped us grow into the people that we are. 


I am so lucky to have an amazing mother, who is a great friend and is always there to "make lemonade" for me.


I also have the blessing of a second "mother" that has been friend and adviser for a long time. 


What did I do to get so lucky? Two amazing, beautiful women that I can call my own.  It makes me smile when I think of some of the trouble that we have gotten into, the three of us together. Here's hoping that more trouble is in our future!


Today I went to church with my wonderful family and have felt like the queen all day! I know that it won't last, but I will enjoy it while I can. The laundry can wait until tomorrow. 


I got some beautiful drawings from Sofia 

and some beautiful flowers from Beto. 

Today, I even wore a dress. I know, stop the presses. I had Beto take a picture so that everyone would believe me. I know that no one will, if they don't see it.

Enough about me and the dress, here are couple of good shots of us from after church.

We went out for lunch at La Tasca in Clarendon. It is a Spanish Tapas restaurant and Al & I really loved the music, food and the adult beverages. The Sangria menu is absolutely amazing. They had a special for Mother's Day and we got to try lots of different kinds of tapas. I love any place that makes it affordable for me to taste lots of new flavors. 


All in all, it has been a great week and a really nice Mother's Day. I hope that all the mothers out there have a great day. 


Until next time...

Let our new life begin!

Al and Sofia got here this week! Yeah! I can not be more excited! They made it safely on Thursday evening after a couple of days of focused driving on Al's part. The apartment is full of boxes and we have lots of work to do, but it is worth it just to have my family together.


We spent some time doing Washington DC stuff yesterday and had a lot of fun. We toured several of the foreign embassies during the Around the World Embassy Tour. In one afternoon we toured the globe stopping in... 

BOTSWANA

So for anyone who was around us before I actually came to Washington DC, you know that our running joke was that we were going to end up in Botswana. Well, I guess we did, in a way. By the way, Alberto ate a massive worm during the tasting of the "delicacies" from Botswana. It was really large and honestly, it was pretty disgusting. He told me that he was facing his fears. He tells me that it was basically like the caterpillar from Alice and Wonderland. Yuck!


Up next, we toured past Trinidad and Tobago and then on to Peru. Sofia posed for a couple of pictures and they are really cute.

After the photo op with the llama and her mama, we toured the art exhibit in the Peruvian embassy. Alberto found a distant relative.

So although at this point we have been to Africa, the Caribbean and to South America, we aren't done yet. Up next, we headed down under to tour Australia.

It was interesting and we got to see this guy playing a didgeridoo (sp?)...

Finally, where could we finish our tour of the world but....

YEAH!!!!

MEXICO

A beautiful example of the Talavera room in the  Mexican  Cultural Center

So all in all, our tour of the world was excellent. We saw lots of places and ate some interesting things. Sofia was a trouper, letting the grown-ups do some pretty boring stuff, even though she said that she had a little fun. So we decided to take her to do something fun, just for her.

It was a great day and I am looking forward to sharing our new adventure with you, now that we are finally together again.


a bientôt...This is French for Until next time. BTW, they speak French in Camaroon.