Sunday, June 22, 2014

School Festa Junina

The wonderful season of Festa Junina is upon us once again. 'Tis the season to eat lots of canjica, paçoquinha, cocada, pé-de-moleque, bolo de fubá, quentão, caldo de feijão, caldo de mandioca, milho verde, and all the other yummy-ness. :) 

As usual, the girls participated in the presentations each class did at school in semi 'caipira' attire. Neither of them like to wear the straw hats, put ribbons in their hair, or wear the makeup that goes with the 'caipira' look. Laura's always the different one in her class, but since the important thing of these festivities is the celebration of [this part of] Brazilian culture and to have fun, I don't insist that she/they wear/put on what they don't want to. 

Our caipiras ... come to think of it, Laura's dress looks like something from Anne of Green Gables, with the puffy sleeves and all. 

Our pretty girl:

Posing:


The school sets up several inflatable toys for the kids to play in before the presentations. Naturally, Laurie played, and played, and ran all over the place, and ate, and played some more. By the time it was her turn to dance, she was a mess. I fixed her up, but somehow from the time I left her with her group to the time she got on stage, she was a mess again. Sigh. Her dance was the cutest thing, though. 

 Alina's turn:
 



Inhotim

Last month my brother invited me to go with him to Inhotim, an open air contemporary art museum. The last time I'd gone was back in 2009 with the folks and most of my siblings. The place is HUGE and since the purpose of our visit was to actually try to understand and "absorb" the art, we only went to 4 or 5 of the galleries in the space of a few hours. It was a most perfectly enjoyable day! 

On our way home we stopped at a roadside restaurant for a hearty "mineiro" lunch. We then continued on our way, up and down the winding hills of Minas. I didn't take all that many pictures, but the few I did are below. :D

A bird and fish in one of the lakes:


Rafa liked this piece of art:

The Cosmococa gallery ... interesting experience:


A lovely wooded area ... reminds me of Petropolis:



Resting a bit in one of the many lovely gardens:

This little fellow showed up: