Happy Father's day!

I would like to wish a happy father's day to the most important fathers in my life. My dad and my husband. I'll always be daddy's lil' girl in his eyes. All the wonderful childhood memories with dad, bring tears in my eyes when I start thinking about them. Time goes really fast, thus creating as many good memories as possible is imperative. Brian you're the best dad to our kids. Whether it's the moment you spend telling Bebe you love him; tickles Ndamona's feet, picked up a phone and call your daughter, and tell her you love her; plays a kick ball with Berhane, or when you brought home that cute little toy that brought a big smile on the kids' faces, those are the memories we're talking about. You deserve the Best Dad of the Year's award! We love you, and looking forward to the many more good memories.

Exploring Ottawa, Canada

Beautiful view from our hotel room!

View from our hotel room!

This is a candy store. Nothing else but candies. You know I was having a ball. I ate cranchie candies like crazy, they even burned my palate. I learned my lessons. I still ate more candies lol.

Enjoying the weather in Ottawa!

We took the kids to a cute nearby park. We're back again in this beautiful, and buziii city called Ottawa. Ottawa reminds me of Europe al little bit. People here speaks English and French so it's 50/50. Even the street signs read Rue/St. The city is clean, and tourists are every where you look especially from Asia. The first day we took the kids to the park near by.

Cleveland, June 2009!

On our way to Ottawa we went to see our family in Cleveland. Berhane is always looking forward to meeting his cousin Samantha. They danced, sang, and acted like silly bees.

Columbus Metropolitan Library Rated Number 1 in the Nation again!

This is Columbus Metropolitan Library. Picture taken by Helvi

The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), located in the capital city of Ohio, Opened in 1873. Today CML is one of the most used libraries in the country. CML is ranked #1 in the the entire Uninted States for the third time by Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index for 1999, 2005 and 2008. Above you can see the children's area. My children, and I love especially the main library. Children are encouraged to open up a library card as early as one day old. Children area has computers with the internet, a huge playing space, countless book etc. My goal is to have my book in this library, and Ras sheehama's CDs.

Inside the libaray. Ndamona Learning her letters from Berhane.

Outside the Libray (Park). This is the best place to be.

Reflecting back

It has been almost a decade since I came to the US. Much has changed since I migrated to the US. Namibia has changed too, and the young people in Namibia are just doing their things taking the entertainment industry to the next level. On September 11 2001, I left Namibia at around 7am. By the time I reached Johannesburg, all flights to the US were delayed, this ended up to be the longest delayed flight ever. Consequently, we spend about three nights in Johannesburg. Our flight was the first to leave Johannesburg, after the September 11 incident. This journey had so much adventures. Will find time to go into details. Arriving in New York was exhausting yet reliving. Finally, we landed safely, and I was looking forward to drive to Columbus, Ohio where I spend almost a decade. Wow, time flies. I think I'm ready to reflect back in this part of my life. Will blog more later.

Columbus art Museum Egyptology News

Welcome to Columbus Ohio Museum.

Mummy myths were dispelled at Columbus Museum of Art. I have seen the movie The Mummy, thus it made it easier for me to understood the egyptology behind the Mummy.

Here Berhane is getting ready to stamp our passports to Egypt! He's so fascinated about passports and traveling. We've been talking to him about traveling lately. He's also learning Geography (knows a lot about different countries). Examples, no snow in most parts of Africa, winter is southern Africa is between June and August.

Here we made it to Egypt safely.

Columbus Art Festival

More art work..

Berhane was telling a story with the lady. He did so good I was impressed. (Little Red Riding hood). I love the way they encourage the children to use their imagination and creativity.

Spraying art works.

Art work.

About to go on the slide!

On June 6th, we took the kids to the Columbus Arts Festival, Museum, and library. It was a fun day for all of us.

Berhane Performing at school 09!

On May 29, the entire family stepped out to see Berhane performing at his school. The children were so amazing . Age ranges from 3-5 years all in pre school. I really want to big up the teachers, and the kids of cause for putting in efforts to make this day memorable. The kids designed their own t-shirts, how impressive. Enjoy the pictures and the video clips.