We decided to enter into the spirit of things and head to a Mexican restaurant for dinner and cocktails. When we arrived, we were showered with beads and...moustaches! We popped in to the supermarket on our way home and Sofie decided we should wear our facial hair, so we did. It was lots of fun watching people's reactions as they did double takes and then creased up laughing.
Sadly, I couldn't indulge in too many margaritas as it was up at the crack of dawn on Sunday for a 5K run through Cumberland to support the local charity 'Safe Passage'. The story behind the charity is inspirational. It was set up by a woman from the next town when, after a time working in Guatemala City, a friend took her by the city's rubbish dump. She was appalled at what she saw: young children being forced to scavenge from a massive rubbish dump in order to earn a living for their family. Instead of talking about how awful it was, she did something, immediately selling her car and using the money to start making changes. Her charity now provides many children in Guatemala City with free education and also supports their families in other ways too so they can afford to have their children learning instead of earning. The event was really well supported by the community and was lots of fun, especially as the sun was out after days and days of dreary grey and rain.
However, this joy wasn't set to last as of course we had a field trip booked for today to the Maine Wildlife Park. It peed it down consistently for our whole visit so many of the animals stayed in hiding and the kids got soaked...
Oh well, we learned a lot about identifying the skulls of different animals and I saw my first moose so it wasn't all bad!
Oh and there was also a scary bear loose in the park...
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