Okay. I'm *mostly* here looking up my cookie recipe.

But I thought I'd update you all on yesterday, aka Burmese New Year.

We all went out (to Elise's new school, yay!) and, after a brief period of eating food and (for me) making special emergency trips for some urgent supplies (you know what I mean, and if you don't, I'm sure you can guess)...

After all that, we ran around splashing each other with semi-wild abandon. Hey, it's the reason for the season!

Today, it is rainy. This is much less exciting than buckets of water.

Off-topic, am I the only one surprised that nobody in the last book ( Minor spoiler )