These were the three themes during our 3-day weekend. On the rainy Saturday we took Quynh to Worcester to visit two Vietnamese markets as well as Trader Joe's. She wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped and we ended up out-buying her by a ton! Sunday was a spectacular day and we headed to the Big Apple with my sister and visited the Canstruction exhibit down at the World Financial Center, in which very cool sculptures are made from canned foods which are in turn donated to a food bank. We also saw the Journey exhibit, a public art installation in Washington Square Park sponsored by the Helen Bamber foundation and promoted by Emma Thompson. It's theme is human trafficking and it was a gut-wrenching and moving experience to say the least. (Anthony and B. waited outside). Finally we taxied over to the Met where Beatrice and Daddy visited the Samurai exhibit. It was a very full day and B. handled the city like she goes there every day of her life. She especially loved riding minus carseat in the taxis and it brought me back to our first days together in Hanoi. On Monday I took a personal day and we headed to the state capitol building for an official citizenship ceremony to celebration National Adoption month. There were about twenty adopted children and their families and there were some brief speeches, a visit from Uncle Sam, and of course cake and cookies. We were fortunate to see Governor Rell (perhaps my favorite Republican politician) on the way out and she agreed to pose for a picture. Unfortunately all we had was Anthony's iPhone so the pictures aren't great, especially since he had it on "toy" setting so the effects were funky.
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