Weekend of Urban Goodness…

On Saturday morning, R and I pulled ourselves up out of flu hell and drove down to Phoenix for a weekend of fun and frivolity, pitched to The Bee’s cultural tastes…first, the FCC-AZ Chinese New Year event.

We ate:

We watched another girl do some cool spinning toy on a rope, helped out by an older woman…

so we ran over and decided to do it ourselves…

we watched and learned…

we thought we were doing pretty well…

and then we even got our own helping hand (although The Bee was better at this than the seven-year-old; I’m not sure why or how)…

Then we tried the hula hoop…

followed by the purchase of a purple parasol…

followed by jumping on the trampoline toy…

which we did much better at than last time…

thanks, I think, to Tiny Tots Gymnastics…

Then we tried some sticker art…

Followed by watching the dragon dance…

and then we ran…

up on stage with all the kids…

and promptly hugged them (the only kid who hugged!…not sure if that means she needs lessons in appropriate boundaries or whether she’s well-socialized…I’m sort of proud, actually)…

And then we watched a magician…although we clearly haven’t been disciplined by attending school yet since we choose not to sit in the semi-circle with the other kids…

In the afternoon, we went to see the Great Green Room come alive in a stage production of Goodnight Moon. (No pictures. Not allowed.)

On Sunday, we saw the Doodlebops.

we loved the whirligig light toy…

and we rocked out to the music…

Phew.