Flamboyant!

(FYI: Updates to come...on "family planning" topic and also some news with us here at Asas...future plans.)

Yesterday was YA-HA-HA awesome. Ahh...so full and tiring too, but not nearly as tiring as my days here at the house. Funny how that is.

We had a total girls' day, me and Gillian (and Cass). We went to my favorite place here in this area...well, favorite in the category of what reminds me most of home. We went to the mall in Goiania (the name of it is Flamboyant, hence the title).

This mall reminds me of the Galleria. Yeah, it's pretty dadgum nice. You will see in one of the pictures Gillian took. In fact, for more pictures and her take on it, go to her blog (link on sidebar).

Anyway, it was fabulous. We got to the mall and went to watch a movie, grabbed a bite to eat, went to the bookstore and just veg'd for an hour (my idea of one part of heaven...reading uninterrupted and people-watching while drinking a nice chocolatey coffee drink). Cass is of course the perfect baby, so none of this was a problem...she just went with it. After my hour of bookstore was up, we went to get our hair and nails done.

We each had one lady on fingernails, one lady on toenails, and a guy doing our hair the whole time. At one point I even had 2 guys drying my hair...one on each side of my head. I felt like I was in "hair and makeup" on a movie set or something. :)

After we felt thoroughly pampered we headed home. The day was yet to be done though. We had a wedding to go to.

Yep, it was a full and fabulous day. You can see for yourself. And you WON'T want to miss the display of astounding cuteness in the video at the very end (you'll have to tilt your head...don't know how to rotate a video).

Cass just hung out for the first 1/3 of the movie, then I fed her, then she played and pooped, then diaper change, then yeah...she was out. All of that basically without any peep out of her.
I should've thought to get a shot of her watching the movie (I'm sure that huge screen and surround sound were a bit overwhelming). But, no...just the credits. I think she enjoyed her first movie experience. ;)
Trying to find her thumb...but it's her right hand...she never finds that one.

We spent a month in Dallas a couple of years ago...lived right down the road from the Galleria there. Me and the kids went often (they had a great indoor play area) and I knew that mall very well by the end of our stay. I think this mall is even bigger than the Galleria in Dallas...and super nice.
Gillian's before shots.

Pampering in full effect.
After shots.

And now, the out-of-this-world cuteness!! (see below...this was taken while in the waiting area of the salon...oh, and I wasn't even touching her...no tickling or anything like that involved)
She drew quite the crowd. The stylists there really got a kick out of it.