The Afualo Family: An Olympic and ABBA weekend

Sunday, July 29, 2012

An Olympic and ABBA weekend

Those are two weird words for a post. That's what our weekend was filled with though. The Olympics and ABBA.

I love the Olympics. I'm trying to get my kids to love them too. Now that everyone is old enough to understand the games we thought we would have a little fun with them. This year is even more fun because the Olympics are in a city that we love.

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I think I love this more than the rings down in Sydney in 2000.

We all picked a country that we would support during the games (of course we really only want the U.S. to win). Adam- U.S., Lily-France (there's a suprise), Noah-Brazil, Damon-New Zealand, Rachel-Australia, Nana-United Kingdom, Papa- China. We decorated the house with Olympic flags and flags from the countries we are cheering on. We are also keeping a medal count for our country.

For opening ceremonies I tried to sell the kids on English food, but they weren't to excited by that. We settled for a union jack flag appetizer, hamburgers and Olympic cupcakes for dessert.

The kids got to watch the ceremony until 9:30pm and then finished it up in the morning. They kept track of the number of athletes their country had. It's been fun this year. I know a lot of people said that the opening was boring, but I loved it. It had bits of craziness and silliness, but I loved seeing Kenneth Branagh, J.K. Rowling and Mary Poppins and Voldemort. They didn't sell me on a nationalized health care system though.

Saturday we camped out in front of the TV and squeezed chores into watching the Olympics. It's a good thing we have a DVR. It makes watching it easier. We've loved every minute of it so far.

Saturday night the Mortensen's and Grandma came down to go to the Summer Pops with us. They had a tribute to ABBA band. It was fabulous good fun. We love Summer Pops. It's the best thing to do during the summer. I think my sister sang along with every song. We met some parrots on the way to the concert.