Car Shows and Smores

So this week is a Car Week in Monterey.  There are several big car shows and auctions going on. We love to go see what there is for sale (not that we can buy any of them, this is a sale for very rich people), and just enjoy looking at all of the beautiful cars.  Everything from vintage cars to newer high end sports cars like Lamborghini, Bugatti, Maserati and Ferrari.  I wasn't sure how much the girls would enjoy it, so we only spent a couple of hours there.

Eliana LOVED the sports cars, she was all about the really fast looking ones.  I think I will worry when she is old enough to drive.

We saw this BMW 300 and told Sabrina that it was just her size!  Surprisingly, when I asked her which car was her favorite at the end, she said that this one was.

After the car show, we went and got dinner and then went to our friends, the Filceks to roast marshmallows and make S'mores.  They said that they hadn't made S'mores before, so this was a first for them.

The rest of the day, the girls were busy doing laundry, packing as much as they can, weighing suitcases and generally getting ready to go home.  They will go to San Francisco tomorrow to tour the city, but will be back tomorrow night to spend the night.  Then Monday morning, they will leave us to go back home to Venezuela.  

We are going to miss them a lot!  They have been very fun to have around.  

Brownies and Silly Games

A couple of nights before our students from Venezuela were scheduled to arrive, I got a call from an EF (That's the organization that does these Homestay visits) coordinator.  She had a Chinese student who was not happy where she was, it wasn't clear why, and would we take her.  As we were only expecting two Venezuelan students, we agreed and just before I picked up those girls, a leader brought Cherry over to our house.  Cherry is from Gwangzhou, China (near Hong Kong, sort of).  As she was on a different track than our other students, she was gone last weekend to Disneyland and missed out on the archery stuff.  So these are the first pics we have of her.  She has already gone home and we miss her.  She was very sweet, helpful and fun to have around.

Due to Sam's employment situation at this time, we don't have a lot of extra money to go out to do things that cost money.  The girls have been shopping at the mall a few times, and we took them to the movies once.  But, most of the time, we play games here at home.  Last week, we taught them to play a silly game called "spoons", made brownies and then Meghan taught them the "cup song" from the movie "Pitch Perfect".  (You can see a video of people who are good at this here)  If Sam can convert his video to a format I can post, I will post video later.  They also spend a lot of time dancing to the Wii's Just Dance game, which they love.  I don't have many photos of that, because they would just be back shots of them dancing....

But here are some photos that Sam took of brownies, spoons and cup games.

Eliana and Sabrina

Ellie

Sabrina

Cherry

Now we have Venezuelans!

So, the last post was about archery, and so is this one.  We have three new students;  Cherry, who is from Guangzhao, China , and Sabrina and Eliana from Caracas, Venezuela.  Cherry is on a different "track" than the Venezuelan girls, and was off to Disneyland this weekend, so we haven't been able to do very much with her yet.  But, this weekend, we took Sabrina and Elly shopping on Saturday. Then, on Sunday afternoon, our friend David came over again to teach them a little bit about archery.

Both of them did very well at it!  Sam took lots of pictures.