Topanga Earth Day

What an AWESOME day!

The only bummer was, that it was TOTALLY HOT. But otherwise, what a great time we had! It started with yoga. I did some until it was just too hot to continue. (It had to have been 90 degrees at 11am and I really didn't want heatstroke.)








So I went and checked out some of the booths for a bit and then joined Craig and the girls at the opening ceremony. It was a BEAUTIFUL peace ceremony where we wished peace on every country in the world! People who wanted to participate lined up to get a flag and then would wave the particular flag and we would all say "Let there be peace in (name of country.) Bella and Lala both got to do it. But Lala LOVED it and did it about 5 times! As time went on, I thought I would like to go through with Ceci. So I got in line and was totally thrilled when by chance I ended up with Mexico's flag! A little later, we did the last flag--the United States. It was pretty cool that Lala was again the flag-barer!! Everybody of course, cheered like crazy for our country (and for little Lala!) It was so neat! Then, to end the ceremony, our friend Woody came out with an Earth flag and then Stephanie came out with a peace flag and they waved them together. It was really a beautiful ceremony. We felt very blessed to be a part of it-- to be able to wish peace on all the countries of the Earth! I know the girls enjoyed it very much.




Of course, throughout the day there was fun happening all over the place. Great music, great organic food, great eco-friendly things for sale, and fun activities for kids in the play area. We ended up shopping from a vendor who started the fair trade labels called Jedzebel and Ecogirl. I bought the girls these gorgeous Jedzebel skirts made from recycled saris. I bought myself an Ecogirl organic cotton blouse which I love!

Another really cool thing that happened-- we bought a $1raffle ticket, and Lala pulled out a $25 certificate to Pat's Topanga Grill! We were pretty happy about that!

We really enjoyed going into Visionary which was a remodeled trailer that is a mobile eco-boutique! It was really cool!

We had lunch from organic green truck on the go--delicious food!



One of the performances was by the Topanga Belly Dancing Troupe!












Bella and Lala had to have these cute baskets-- they bought them with their own $.

The time flew by until we had to go. By the way, here is the tail of the biodiesel bus that drove us up the hill! It was super-cute!







The Circus




I know we are CRAZY, but we had been given tickets to the circus, and we really wanted to use them! We caught the 7pm show. Can you believe how crazy we are to go to the circus after a big (HOT and exhausting) festival? It was really fun, and pretty cute! I especially enjoyed the trained doggies. We loved our fez hats and kept singing "Ain't never gonna do it without the fez on!" These shots were some of the highlights of the show.