Viva La Fiesta!!!

Hi everyone! It has been Fiesta week in Santa Barbara (Old Spanish Days) so been to a couple of parades. Getting a full-on Mexican experience with burritos, mariachi bands, lots of colourful dresses, dancing and sombreros. These pics are some of the highlights from the parade I thought you might enjoy. There's the man with the biggest sombrero, the oldest lady on a horse (90), a baby (!) riding a horse, Gabby holding a painted egg full of confetti which you smash on people's heads and myself and Maryanne (Addie's friendly neighbour) with front row seats.

The equestrian parade is one of the largest of its kind in the States. It was pretty amazing! It's true, my admirability for horses is growing by the day.

The second miraculous change is that I've been enjoying the overflow of American consumerism by some more garage saling and second hand shopping! I purchased some denim dungarees (Calvin Klein) for $2 and am eagerly awaiting the return of them into the world of fashion. Oh yeah, and I bought a book for 25 cents which is called (and lists) '14,000 Things to be Happy About'. I'll be sure to list a few in my next post!