I thought I’d share some of my favorite pictures that my mom sent me from their trip in Maine. I am so jealous!!

This is my mom’s best friend, Pirjo.

This is my mom and Pirjo being crazy!

Here is my Dad in front of Pirjo’s son, Dan’s house.  Wow.

My parents- aren’t they great?!

A little more BFF craziness!

Isn’t it great to have a BFF- one of those best friends where no matter how long it’s been, it’s so easy to pick right back up again?  Yep, I got me one of those- Lesley.  Tomorrow, I’ll be boarding a plane to visit her.  So, at the same time my mom is with her BFF, I’ll be with mine. 

You can see more from our knitting party at Amanda’s.    Tomorrow, Bailey and I are off to Florida, to visit my best friend, Lesley.  Not sure of her computer stats, so I’m not sure I’ll be blogging much this week.  If she does have a puter available, I will definitely post pics.  Bailey and I will be gone until next Tuesday.  We got a fabulous deal at www.spiritair.com with our flight costing $19 each way.  Wowsers!

On friday night, I attempted to teach the sisterchicks how to knit.  It was difficult!  I didn’t realize how hard it is to teach someone to knit, let alone 5 people at one time!  I’m not used to doing it in slo-mo, so I was messing up.  Finally, after teaching them how to cast on, they picked up the knitting in no time.  If you want to see pics, go see Staci’s blog.

Dress like a cow, get free food?  Enough said!

We were greeted with the sound of employees ringing cow bells. They then took multiple pictures of us and then let us pick anything off the menu! We got $24 worth of lunch- for free! Yay Chick-Fil-A!null

Bento boxes and Bollywood.  What the heck?  What are these two “b” words? 

Bento boxes are a lunch box system used in Japan. Here in the US, they are primarily called laptop lunches.  Look at this fabulous, and environmentally friendly lunchbox!

Here is a more traditional bento box, as used in Japan.

Our school lunches are so unhealthy, so I’m going to really, really try to make the kids lunches this year.  Now all I have to do is convince Dave to let me spend $70 on two lunchboxes!!! 

Look at all these yummy lunch ideas! 

Can you stand it?

Now for Bollywood.  What is this Bollywood, you say?  Bollywood is the Hindi-language based film industry in India.  I’ve always been intrigued by the dancing and the stories- it’s so beautiful.  I LOVED watching the first Bollywood dance on So You Think You Can Dance tonight!  I thought that Katee and Joshua did an amazing job!  They were just so fabulous in such a hard genre.  I can’t wait to see more from that choreographer.  Check it out and let me know what you think.  The dance starts at 1:19 on the video.