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Jacob surprises me with a poem now and then and it warms my heart so!
Jane's temple dress. Important moments.
Happy Birthday torch for Lavar!
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Little Women
I have tickets for the May 21:)
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Age Recommendation:
Suitable for those 10 years of age and up
Book by ALLAN KNEE
Lyrics by MINDI DICKSTEIN
Music by JASON HOWLAND
Directed by BOB BAKER
April 30 – May 22, 2011
Maclab Theatre
A Lively Family Musical
Louisa May Alcott's American classic, Little Women, is transformed into a sweeping, spirited musical filled with heart, honesty and humanity. This family event celebrates the power of the imagination and all that is beautiful about growing up.
Immerse yourself in a world filled with music as the March family journeys through sadness and joy, innocence to independence.
Featuring participants of the 2011/2012 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program »
“Jo March is the quintessential musical theatre hero. She wants everything, loves too passionately, speaks too loudly,
and is fiercely determined not to 'disappear without a trace.’." –Susan Shulman
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Persepolis
This is the tomb of King Darius - the thought of the time frame and the history is amazing to me. I was very disappointed that we did not visit these sites near Shiraz last visit - this time I was determined. We flew Tehran-Shiraz return on Iran Air,
which I have to admit scared me a little bit!
This experience was truly a highlight of our trip, other than meeting family, for me. I have so many pictures, but the point really is to try to portray the scale - which is truly awesome (in the true sense of the word). The history and the story of Persepolis and it's demise is interesting. There were 4 kings that ruled/lived at Persepolis, beginning with Darius I, followed by Darius II, Xerxes I and Xerxes II. The final king was deposed by Alexander the Great. Darius was, apparently, quite a humane king - having 'written' a sort of code of human rights - that included paying wages to the people who built Persepolis. This fact is important to Iranian people, and specifically to my sister-in-law. She was very proud to point this out to me.
It was relatively hot this day, though it is winter in Iran in December, like here, but it's further south and we tramped all over the entire sight, so Manochehr and I were hot and we stopped for a rest and a wonderful cooling drink that is served to cool people down. I can't remember the name of it, and I'm not familiar with it here in North America. We bought some of the 'seeds' to make the drink here in the summer time. It worked like a charm! We also had a bowl of 'Foludeh', and wonderful Persian ice cream flavored with rose water and lime. Delicious!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011
More from Isfhan
Remember I said that we enjoyed some very large family gatherings? Well, here is one in Isfahan with 22 in attendance for a full meal. It was fantastic; all made by Mano's cousin Mitra.
A shop in the great bazaar from an earlier post...these metal trays are hammered on the premises, along with many other items, like giant copper pots etc. When I say giant, I mean giant...big a enough to camp in nearly!
A picture of the artist that made some of the things that Sorour sent over for Sarra when Maman and Baba came over last time...she still has them of course. While there this time, Sorour showed us the shop and the artist and I snapped a photo for Sarra...it makes the gifts she has a little more precious.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Isfahan
Naghsh e jahan Square, holds one of the oldest, and largest bazaar's in the middle east (maybe the oldest and largest; I can't verify that). This place is heaven on earth if you like handicrafts, workmanship, ice cream (persian saffron ice cream with cream bits in it and foludeh = YUM!!), rugs, textiles, pottery, metal work, silversmiths and jewelry...and more. I knew this bazaar from our last trip to Isfahan 5 years ago - no trip to Isfahan is complete without visiting this bazaar. Even Mano (the anti-shopper) enjoys this kind of shopping. He came home with an antique compass, a replica pug lock (I'll try to get a photo of that for a future post) and a sand in glass timer with compasses on each end (another photo needed). Needless to say, half of what I brought home came from this bazaar - my beautiful table cloth, clothes for the kids, pottery, silver bracelets for the girls etc. We did partake of the ice cream of course, and then we met with family and ate at this lovely kebab house (restaurant) on the second level of the building. See below...the places where you eat are not table and chairs, but 'takhts' (beds) where you sit cross-legged on a table cloth and eat your meal.
Just outside the doors of the restaurant, was a small shop ( they are all small!) where these two girls were working on the art objects that they were selling. We purchases some small hammered and painted plates from this shop.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Amol
We stopped at this hotel for 'Fast Food' which is the name they give
to all American food, like pizza, hamburgers etc.
The marvel is that we think of Manocher as being rather solitary, but in reality he has a monstrously large family! Everywhere we went there would be 16-22 people over for dinner. I will show some of these huge dinner parties in upcoming posts.
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