Today Pooks went to school to make a lantern for Independence day in Costa Rica. We picked her up at 2:30 and came home for a little snack and pool time with Sabsy before we all headed out again at 4:30 to meet up with everyone for the town parade.

Ashley heard it started at 5pm so we all met up at one of the supermarkets where it was supposedly starting. Turns out we were an hour early, and at the wrong market (typical CR situation). Apparently 1/2 the town was under the same impression. Anyway, we found the correct starting point, waited about 45 minutes as everyone was arriving with their lanterns and amazing creations, and then finally the band started playing and we headed on our march!

It was about an hour long by the time we got to the finishing point. I made sure to stay close to the band so that Sabs would be mesmerized and distracted by the drums, rather than focusing on the fact that we were walking in a line like a herd of cows in the heat. It worked, and we had a bunch of fun. We saw friends and neighbors from town all along the way and Sophie waved her little Costa Rican flag as we made our way down the road.

I dont have many pics b/c it was getting dark and we were busy chatting and marching but here are a few from our little adventure.

After the parade we piled into the car and waited as the tail end finished marching. Sabs had her head out the window yelling “Hola Jadyel” to everyone who marched by. I dont know what they thought she was saying but she received a great response and yelled strong for about 5 minutes of the ride. We had to pick up the quad 1/2 way back b/c we had gotten it serviced that day. The girls and I rode the quad in the dark and Pooks was completely geeking out yelling Yee Haw as we were riding down the road. We stopped for some yummy ice cream and got home a little after 7:30. When we were walking into the house Pookie looked at us and said “So is Appendix day over?”. She seriously thought we were celebrating the people getting their appendix taken out. Priceless.