Dance Recital

It's dance recital weekend!!! The girls are dancing and dancing and dancing some more!!! Here's a picture from each...

A big thanks to my secret pal

I wanted to thank my pal in my blog. I am still in awe of all the wonderful things that she sent me. And most of all because whe really thought about it and gave me things that she really thought I would like and she was right!!!! Hemp yarn and an Eiffel sweater pattern, lace up gauntlets pattern and hand dyed yarn, cool skull stitch markers, kisses, lego gummies, pirate band aids. WOW!!!!

Outerbanks

The family and I had a nice Spring vacation to the OBX. It's always fun at the beach even when it is cold. We played in the sand, kayaked the sound, played in the sand dunes and drank as many lattes as we could in four days.

Continuing with the Tibetan Monks

So they finished the mandala yesterday, it was finished for ONE hour and then they destroyed it!!! Then they poured it into the creek. Today we were walking along the creek and saw some of the flowers that they used to destroy the mandala with, so we took pictures of those too! We did enjoy the beauty while it lasted!

Day number 3

The monks are almost finished!! It is an amazing process-- and then today, they will finish and dstroy it in a closing ceremony. My daughter asked thim if they liked to destroy it-- they said -"yes, that is part of the process. You know it's only there for a short time, so you enjoy the beauty at the moment. "

Day number 2

Here is the mandala after the monks working on it for two days...

Tibetan Monks

The Tibetan Monks are here to bless a new building at the University. Today was the opening ceremony and they started the mandala which will take three days to build. Then on Thursday they will destroy it in a closing ceremony to show the impermanence of things. It was really neat watching-- we will go everyday to see the progress. On Thursday night they will have a show, doing their chanting and dancing.