Missed it...

Dear Mama,

Yesterday, we looked for a record player but we had no luck with the first three stores, but at the fourth store we had luck. So then, we came home and listened to lots of records while we baked our banana bread and zucchini pie for the brunch today. My favorite record is still Cat Stevens. We also went to Bleecker Street yesterday and had chicken soup at the Figaro Cafe and I wrote the best poem. Here it is:

Antarctica, by JFM

I went to Antarctica,

Cold as a breeze,

And then, I started to sneeze.

The breeze was so cold,

I started to freeze!

And now no one knows what happened to me.

Except the one who ate me, of course.

Today we had the brunch and Paul and Lara gave me "The Golden Compass" book. And we gave them "The Gruffalo" and some bottles from when I was little. Paige also brought me a party canon from Chinatown. We shot the party canon from the roof and it exploded and shot confetti really far out onto the street. And on our way to Mira's later on we found a lot of the confetti on the street. Also, after the brunch, Zoe and Brian stayed a little bit longer, and so I made a potion and they washed their hands with soap in the potion. It also cured boo-boos. We also listened to lots of records and me and Brian were the DJs.

Then, we missed Ovi's birthday (because it was actually on Saturday) and Dada canceled the pizza party because we thought we'd be at the birthday party too late. But there wasn't any birthday party today!

Well, it's nighttime so I better get to sleep.

I love you a hundred chameleon tongues longer than the universe. (Chameleon tongues are so long!)

Julia

(Some images of the poet deep in thought, composing Antarctica, in the Figaro Cafe...)