What a weekend!

It was a great weekend Allhomdulliallah! Baba was off and we were up and about early Saturday morning. Our first stop was in "Opa land" we went to a Greek festival, we had so much fun. We walked around looked at few things they were selling, but the truth we were there for the FOOD yes we love Greek food well WHO? does not like it.


We had a nice plate of roasted lamb right there in the spot this kind of food reminds me of New York when baba and I started dating. Gamila you loved the meat, Samia you were a little hesitant because you did not want to get your little hands dirty.

After baba mention of taking a drive to see the house, is not that far from New Orleans anyway so we drove that way and I know baba likes crab and there are some good places to buy crab so I figure I will tell him to buy some and we could come home and cook them. Nenas the house is finish yes finish almost, is so pretty we are so excited.

Nenas I take this opportunity to talk about being modest. Always remember to be humble, don't brag about what you have or what you got. Abuelo and Abuela always teach me that being pretentious is not a nice trait, it just shows how empty and how much material things mean to you. Samia and Gamila always remember that simple things makes us very happy.


Finally we got home to cook the crabs and like always we call Zetu she is the expert in seafood and in the conversation crazy Guido tell us how to differentiate the males from the females so baba and mami just made the cooking a biology lesson along with a crab race. Samia you did not want to get close to the crabs Gamila you on the other hand wanted to dive with them.



While we were driving back home I am not sure how the conversation started the only thing I know was that baba promise Samia to go and pet the goats???? Okey I look at baba and ask him where are you going to find goats to pet? and his answer was THE ZOO...so nenas as you can imagine Sunday at 9:30 AM we were at the Zoo.

Samia you took control of the map and the whole time said to the right to the left, I just love to see how much you have grown. Is in places like this I can see your changes because I always can compare it to the last time we were there. Mami just wanted to go straight to the petting zoo, but I then felt bad so we took the scenic long hot route. The zoo here in Baton Rouge is very hummmm...not many animals to see, although they do have a nice petting zoo and playground and I have to be nice the giraffes are always out and about.




After petting the goats we headed to the playground..this another place I can see how different you two are.

Samia you the cautious here you are crossing this little bridge going turtle speed and holding on to the bars. Milo here you are crossing the same bridge running and not holding on to the bars.


Samia today was the first time you went down cover slide not sure how to call those, well I should also tell you Samia the only way you will go on it was because I was going up the opposite side, thank God they are wide if not it would not had being a pretty picture.


Samia you have become my little princess so I made you this gown and you asked me to make one for Gamila after the two of you had them on you told me I needed my princess dress. So you went and go it for me, and requested the princess to take pictures and the best part you wanted mami to put her mono like you. Here we are:

Zooless and Monkey Einstein

So today we went to the Zoo well I should say to the petting zoo. Hopefully I don't offend any of my Baton Rouge friends but the Zoo here makes me sick. Literally I feel in a store that is about to close its doors and has being on sale for the last couple of weeks you find a pair of pants here and then the shirt there, empty racks. The same here with the animals a field of 1 acre to find a little deer as big as my daughter. A hippo that looks that he has not eaten on ages or maybe he is a dwarf and I am not aware of it. Seriously is insane to take that long walk to find nothing that is why I go straight to the sheep at least they have like 6 of those and we can brush them. Samia even wants to kiss them (I know gross, gross, but how can I explain to a toddler that they are dirty)




Maybe that is the city girl that comes out, or maybe I got spoiled in Egypt zoos were you feed the elephants even take pictures with them, you feed the monkey, even the tiger and lions get feed by us, or maybe the zoo in Miami that you can even rent a bicycle and cruise around the whole place and find people with snakes around their neck for you to pet them. Okey I should stop now or else the next time I want to go out with my Baton Rouge friends I will get bad looks or darts coming my way.

Why do we compare????? in some cases is a good thing but then in another way it can be a bad thing, or maybe comparisons were meant to be kept like an inner dialog....I being breaking my head thinking of something that can not be compare but everything that crosses my mind can be compare mothers, dads, daughters, children. Nenas I would not tell you not to compare but always be open and try not to be tooo judgmental BE OPEN!!!!

Today while I was at the playground with some other moms and I saw in their faces how concern, worry or scare they were the second they can not find their child in this

playground I wonder why they don't put microchip in children the day they are born..seriously dogs can get them why not children it would save us so many headaches.


So after all of this fun we come home 5 o'clock hits again and another day not knowing where we would be moving to....this is driving me insane as of last week they were talking about the Panhandle now they moved us 800 miles back to Louisiana. So I decided to get all of my frustration in poor Milo's hair and here is the result, I would call her my Monkey Einstein...