The Superbowl in the Land of Sand

I enjoy watching the super-bowl.  I enjoy perusing "Pinterest" for cute, football shaped edibles and then never making them.  It's even fun to explain to the locals that the Super-Bowl is the World Cup of "Futbol Americano."   However, since sand has entered the equation- and none of the teams I REALLY care about are in this Super-Bowl 50....I'm hanging in there to hear the National Anthem preformed by Lady Gaga and to watch Bruno Mars, Cold-Play and Beyonce preform.  Is that so wrong?

And since I don't know how to 'live-tweet' I decided to live "Facebook" the event.  Sorry if that was annoying, but I found myself enjoying the game more, watching for note-worthy events.  When Panthers celebrated with a new dance or the commercials started, I perked right up and began paying serious attention to the screen.  Go TEAM!  MOVE THE BALL TO THAT OTHER SIDE!!!

Anyway- Football is not big in the D.R, but I'm thankful I can watch the game in English.

Go TEAM- Whoever yours may be.

And BTW, when I google image searched a "child playing football" this is what they gave me...but the colors are right?

Groundhog Day- 2 February 2016

SO.....many people may not see Groundhog Day as a new beginning- but watching the movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray, I felt like I could begin again.  Blogging, that is....

We live in the Dominican Republic.  You cannot see the ocean from my front window.  It's about an hour drive, from my house, to the first safe beach.  PARADISE, right?  

We have freckles.  All of us- 6 people in my family- and we all have freckles.  That's not usually a problem in Utah, but living an hour from the beach presents a potential for problems...for those who have freckles.

I'm going to share my BIASED insights of living life in the D.R. and more specifically, the equally biased insights, of life in the Foreign Service...   

AND the paradox of living in a Caribbean Country for a family of "Freckles."

One of our first trips to the beach here

LOOK AT ALL THOSE FRECKLES

She who has the most freckles, loves the beach the most

She makes freckles look amazing

He who has the least freckles....tolerates the beach

This kid is my ZEN master with or without the beach