SoS Children's Village Canada, Talent in the Tent

Last week the girls and I attended a fund raiser for SOS Children's Village at Earnscliffe. Murray was out of town and couldn't attend. The event was an exhibition and sale of artists' works, paintings, photographs, pottery, jewelry. There were lots of very nice nibblies, and punch in champagne glasses, which made Sarah and Caroline feel very grown up. In fact, the mini hamburger sliders and other yummy things on sticks served as our dinner, so all we have to do to round off the evening was go for ice cream at the Rockcliff Dairy Bar.

The proceeds from the event went to the very first all Canadian funded Children's Village in Ondangwa Namibia.

Summer time, summer time

Summer looks like it's finally here and the village has come to life once again. Last weekend was the community association picnic. Caroline was still in her art class, so we didn't get there very early, but it was still nice to chat with everyone. The weekend before that was the Sunday School closing program, potluck and picnic.

This weekend the main attraction was the Family Fun Day at the school. There were bouncy castles galore, games, the ever-popular firehose challenge, and really great hamburgers supplied by The Works.

Cultural Pursuits

Sarah has joined the Navan Young Players and a couple of weeks ago they put on their end of season play, "Stage Fright in the Stacks." Sarah played the part of Tiny the bookworm beautifully. We were very proud, as she suffers from stage fright so even signing up for a theatre class was a big step for her.

Here she is with her opening night bouquet (closing night too, as a matter of fact).