Semana Santa

Well it's Holy Week all around the world and in most places it is a time of austerity and reflection. But not in the DR. This is the one week (well, one of the weeks) of the year where everyone goes wild, gets drunk, and goes to the beach. I'm spending it shut up in my house cleaning and working on the Somos Mujeres manual which is almost done. I'm terrified of getting hit by a drunk person on a motorcycle and since everyone is wasted by about noon, I'm making sure to get everything done in the morning and then watching Criminal Minds in the afternoon.

My friend Paola came up today and we dyed eggs, but since this was a last minute decision we had to use all natural dyes. We used onion skins, red cabbage, dill seeds, mustard powder, and beets. I also had a little neon pink food coloring so we had that so spice up the earth tones. They didn't turn out half bad.

(Family pic!)

I also did a little decorating to make my new couch somewhat less of an eyesore. The fans are the extras from the wedding and even though I deviated from my typical decor of 70 year old cat lady the room is just a whole lot brighter.