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Friday, November 10, 2006

Arte

Descobri que o melhor jeito de ter sempre brinquedos novos - e os brinquedos mantem este status de 'novo' por apenas um ou dois dias - Continua.....................depois............


Bonfire Night

Diz a estoria que: In 1605, thirteen young men planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Among them was Guy Fawkes, Britain's most notorious traitor.
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. James I had, after all, had a Catholic mother. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer.
A small group took shape, under the leadership of Robert Catesby. Catesby felt that violent action was warranted. Indeed, the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.
But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack, including some people who even fought for more rights for Catholics. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?
The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed. Some have suggested that the gunpowder itself was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.
Even for the period which was notoriously unstable, the Gunpowder Plot struck a very profound chord for the people of England. In fact, even today, the reigning monarch only enters the Parliament once a year, on what is called "the State Opening of Parliament". Prior to the Opening, and according to custom, the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster. Nowadays, the Queen and Parliament still observe this tradition.
On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder, in a tongue in cheek kind of way, whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government. no dia 5 de novembro de 1605.

....Entendeu?? Sinto muito que seja em Ingles, mas para que ter que contar esta historia toda se ela ja esta ali, escritinha, em ingles?
Em muitos lugares a fogueira e o show de fogos de artificio e feito na noite de 4 de Novembro. E foi nesta noite que nos fomos, em um vilarejo aqui perto, super bonito.
Na verdade foi meio um saco, os meninos que estavam tao ansiosos para ir, acabaram se assustando um pouco, com o numero de gente, a fogueira que de vez em quando tinha uns galhos que explodiam la dentro e depois com os fogos e o barulho. Nisto ficavam pedindo para ir embora, tanto que acabamos indo uns 15 minutos antes de terminar o show - o que na verdade nao foi tao mau, pois pelo menos conseguimos sair dali em tempo de evitar o congestionamento medonho que se formaria no terminar da festa.

















Sunday, November 05, 2006

Aniversario da Amanda.

Dia 15 de Outubro, logo depois da nossa viagem para Wales. Neste Domingo fomos passear na casa do Emerson. Era aniversario da Amanda e ela havia tido uma festinha para os amigos de escola. Nos passamos por la a tarde e havia uma infinidade de coisas para comer. Foi super legal e os meninos brincaram bastante com a Amanda.













Adriano arrasa na festa em Wales



O louquinho do papai.


















O Charmoso do Papai














A Alegria do Papai














Adriano em seu primeiro baile














Curtindo o baile














Hummm, este show ta muito chato!


Fotos October 2006

Depois de muitas tentativas e equivalentes desistidas, aqui vao mais algumas fotos. O computador deve estar com algum caso de virose cibernetica; descobri que a pagina do meu blog nao aguenta levar mais de tres fotos na memoria, assim a cada duas fotos que eu faco o download eu tenho que salvar a pagina e retornar para colocar outras fotos, o que acaba levando mais tempo. Mas de qualquer forma aqui vai uma mistureba de fotos recentes, da visita da Priscila e da nossa viagem para Wales.