Parabens, Francisco! Beijos de nos todos para voce...

Parabens para o Pim!

Pim, parabens! Daqui mandamos mil beijinhos pelo dia de hoje... Voce merece!

Amazing caves at the Fernbank...

The Fernbank museum surprised us again today with an incredible IMAX movie, called the Journey into Amazing Caves. It was a surprise to all of us what it really meant to be a "caver", and the frightening experience of diving and swimming in rivers inside caves. Here is the site created by one of the cavers - Nancy - in the movie: http://www.nancy4caves.net/. She reports on her expeditions and establishes great rapport with her 2nd graders... The boys had a lot of fun as usual.

Lilian, parabens!

Our first video on YouTube...

And bear with us, the quality is not excellent - just really a sequence of photos from fun times in our backyard.

Having fun on the trampoline in our backyard.

At the Fernbank again and again...

We just got home from one the places here in Atlanta that we love the most: the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. They have a new exhibit about animals that are active in the dark, but since we got there late, we had very little time for the exhibit, so we could watch their wonderful iMax movie called Africa: the Serengeti. Fantastic and completely inspiring. We became members of the Fernbank right after relocating here, and this was a wise choice. The Ponce de Leon area hides this one extra jewel.

Duke Ellington's Cat @ Center for Puppetry Arts

We went this afternoon for the first time to the Center of Puppetry Arts here in Atlanta...

What a great place! Besides the exhibitions (which are extremely rich) they had the puppet show called Duke Ellington’s cat, telling Duke Ellington’s story having the cat as the narrator...REALLY (really) good!

One can find a few videos here. However, for this kind of performance, there is nothing like the sheer live experience. The artists are competent and engaging. After the show itself, they come out of their black clothing and show the audience how they manipulate the variety of puppets used in the show. It was a real learning experience. Children learn about puppetry and about Duke Ellington in an exciting way.


There is an exhibition on Jim Henson puppetry, and I smiled continuously remembering my childhood days of watching Sesame Street. We immediately became members of the Center!