bravery

elias loving some of ada's remaining chocolate milk at starbucks

face painting at the festival.

elias was TERRIFIED of clowns.

jumping. so brave.

up up up to the the top of the slide. so so so brave. then the camera battery died and we have no documentation of the down down down part.

we had a pretty relaxing weekend. shreveport does that to you (mostly by providing few options of things to do.) we did go and check out a little festival at the local broadmoor methodist church. it almost made me want to join. almost. they had free drinks, hotdogs, nachos, pickles, rides, bouncy rooms, you name it. we didn't spend a penny. ada even participated. (for those of you who don't know ada, she doesn't like crowds. they make her do a little funny thing with her hands and then she stares at the ground.) she bounced and slided and ate a jolly rancher and listened to teenage gospel groups. she had fun.

we landed at this little ditty simply because everything else we tried to do failed. hobby store, closed. pumpkin patch, closed. river front park, closed (ok-- closed due to flooding!) stores in shreveport are mostly closed on sundays so their employees can worship. that is what the signs say at least. how can such seemingly holy city have such a large crime rate? we are still trying to put together all the pieces.