Today is the Floral Float Parade for the KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL (Davao City Foundation Anniversary) and was thinking if we went to see my doctors this weekend instead of going there last weekend, we could have watched the grand parade of beautiful floats. It is always been a big contest among establishments and organizations. The first parade that I have seen was when Mamang was still alive. Ella was 2 then and most of the time she was carried by Mamang. She just loved carrying her piglet. 
This float was made of corn grains, chrysanthemums, anthuriums, dendrobiums, mums and foliages of different kinds. We really enjoyed the event and Mamang, who is the most crazy over flowers climbed on some floats and let me took her photos which is the last photos she had before she died. I must say last because some of the negatives after this event are not yet printed until now including Ella’s 2nd and 3rd birthdays. (sighs)
I hope Crislyn will post photos of the parade tonight so I could at least feel I was there.
We have a 12 hours power interruption from 6am to 6pm today. Since we do not have fans in the church, I did not feel that we don’t have power until after worship when we went inside the house. After lunch we spread a mat on the living room floor. To help Ella sleep, I read her a couple of stories from her favorite children’s books. It is too hot! Ella and Donald has slept and I wonder HOW they manage to sleep without fan.
Ella was very protective of her chicks. She has 5 broiler chicks which she and Donald bought yesterday when we went to the market. She was asking for it for a long time and we decided it is time for her to raise chicken again BUT I told her that they will be “fried chicken” when they get big. She nodded and so they went to the store to buy 5 chicks. I think they are more than a week old because their feathers has turned into white. I have to make sure Ella understood that her chicken will be cooked for dinner because we had a very hard time convincing her last year that her two chicken will be butchered for food. She loved her two chicken before and when they are 45 days old, we decided to sell and just tell Ella that they went home to our hometown to visit her grandma’s grave. She bought the idea of her chicken travelling 3 hours to Kabacan. LOL Now that she is 5, I think she have to know so we won’t be feeling guilty again selling or butchering them one by one. So now that she agrees with the idea of making them “fried chicken” someday, she takes care of them as best as she can and makes sure they have always food and water in their cage.
by Julie, on August 24 2008 @ 10:27 pm
I don’t think we could get chickens, and then butcher them… Jared would be too upset. We watched a movie (The Retrievers) last night, where this family’s dog had 6 puppies, and when they were weaned, the parents gave the puppies away. Jared was SO UPSET, and insisted that he could never give a animal away, ever.
That float looks like the ones they make for the Grand Floral Parade here… Portland (where we used to live) has a Rose Festival every year in late May and early June, and they wrap it up with the Grand Floral Parade. (here are some pictures of the parade: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamadrama/sets/72157605836248046/?page=3 )