Mexico Fest 2007!

Today Khileen (UC Bio friend and lab partner), Jennifer (College Writing friend) and I went to the National Museum of Natural History to go to the Mexico Fest. It was so much fun! We got there in time to see some dancers perform and then each painted an animal! I painted a bird with a gord boddy, cardboard wings, and clay eyes and a beak. Khileen and Jennifer each painted a dried bean pod that rattles when you shake it. They're really cool and we got MANY complements while we were making them. One older lady (a volunteer) came up to admire mine and then I guess went and told her friends because then they came up to admire, too. The ladies kept saying how we should take art classes and just loved our animals. They were really sweet. It was great to get to do an art project. College students can do art projects, too! =)

We also went to a really good restaurant and walked across the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol on the way there. The sludge at the bottom of the pool had become all dried up like thick chips and made an almost explosive crackle when you walked on them. We also were thrilled to encounter quite a few dead fish skeletons, too. Then Khileen almost walked under a squirrel that looked like it was going to fall off the branch it was on, while she was singing a song about the dead fish of the reflecting pool. Other funnies: we got on the wrong train on the way to the Mall and then I got stuck in the doors when they closed on me, and on the way back Khileen accidentely got on a different car than us so we had to communicate through the glass door and run to join her at the next stop.

Overall it was a fun and funny day. Hope you like the pictures! I think I'm going to work on some homework for a bit and then watch a movie tonight. =) Should be fun.

~ Kaia