We happen to stay really close to where this weekend of fun and parades takes place every year for the past 40yrs.

Old home festival is a celebration for the whole family with love music, 5k runs and fun games and slides for kids…and don’t forget the finger licking food trucks around that weekend.

It starts on a Thursday and goes on till Saturday and each night kids are given free raffle ticket to get a chance of winning one of the 20 bikes they give away each night. The bikes are usually donated by companies and individuals around the east Hampton area.

And on Saturday they have the parade on the main street… which is filled with antic cars and businesses showing of what they have to offer the community.

Kids are I had so much fun…just enjoying festivities… so if you happen to be around this area in the summer then checkout this event.

Happy summer time

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We are so blessed and many times we are reminded by our 4th daughter.

She lives with marcus parents and she is one spoiled princess. She gets the attention of both grandparents.

On July 5th we celebrated Karama Chama Aba Manns our 4th princess as she turn 11yrs.

Marcus mom and all of karama’s aunties made it extra special with a sleepover. Now that’s how you party…

Here are a few snaps of her celebration

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New York for me is for carnival and parties and plays…

When I am driving in new York I feel like my life is timed… I just instantly get stressed out. And driving the big truck does not help either.

Even though we camped about 3 hours from new York while marcus took his trip..I still did not take a single trip to new York while he was away.

So this weekend since marcus was arriving back from his trip into new York we decided to venture out. He is going to be driving.

So we did the curly girl festival at the prospect park in Brooklyn.

I must say it was way bigger than I thought. It was huge. I have not seen that many women at one play and women with nautical curly hair.

Now my girls are all curly girls so it made sense to go there. But it was so packed with lines of people trying to get hey free samples.

But they had live music playing some african songs by psquare. So we enjoyed that.

Parking as usual had us running out of the event earlier than we wish.

We had a parking spot but we had to out money in he meter every 1hour…which is unrealistic as we had to walk about 30min just to find the event location and once we got there we had to walk another 30min again just to go out some money in the meter. But our girls went and handled that so it went well.

Here are a few pictures of our curly girl festival

If we lived in new York area we probably will be at this event every year to learn more about curly hair and what works.

Overall it’s a great event for the whole family…

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I always love fairs and fireworks especially when it happens around a lake…

So much fun.

Pictures below..

Happy 4th of July to all Americans

With so much love and gratitude

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So with our travels we try to find activities for our kids to get involved in.

And one of them this time is Krav Maga…its the best self defense. Especially with al our girls we needed a self defense training that we can use if and when we need to.

Below are a few pictures of our training..

Such a great experience and our kids loved it.

All I can say is don’t mess with the Manns crew.

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Yes we made it to Yale university and our girls loved it. They loved the old feel of the buildings but yet modern in their thinking and greatness.

Our girls loved the history behind the Yale school. They also loved the 14 residential college in Yale. It’s a small city of just Yale.

And it’s still close to new York for a New York experience. So will see how that will go.

We also got to visit the worlds largest indoor ropes course. It’s called IT…. yeap..its a IT….

Now here are a few pictures

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All the places listed above we got to touch and meet up with friends and love ones.

With our fulltime RVing our 2 older girls are also looking and trying to decide on college for fall 2019.

So far we have visited 4 colleges.

They did NYU was awesome since it like a university city… our 2nd girl said it might be too much to get into..as both of them are looking into law. And they both said they want a more calm college so they can focus.

But they loved the NYU global teaching programs and the options to do international programs.

I also loved the global aspect. But am not sure about the hectic life in the city.

We also got to spend an awesome evening with our LLF’S in maryland… always a pleasure to park our house in their yard.

After we got to go and pay our respect to Marcus best friends mother. It was an environment I miss…my Ghanaian family…we speak the same language and just at a different country. I got to eat some Ghanaian food too.

After our funeral we went to visit my cousin whom I have not see in at least 15yrs…it was super nice to spend time with her and her family. And she cooked some tasty chicken and rice for us and some healthy salad which we chow down so fast… lol..

And after her family walked us to yankee stadium and we got to see some football practice and just chill around.

We parked our RV east Hampton at the Nelson family campground. Which is like a yoga retreat and definitely a nice place to be settled for the next month while marcus travel with his guys.

So will share more as we explore east Hampton Connecticut.

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Wow…I cannot believe that we have not been to this place..Marcus parents live 4 hours and 30min from this amazing so much to do place.

We stayed at this awesome koa campground which also has cabin that you can rent.

There was so much stuff to do and see in this place it’s super awesome and family fun for everyone.

We got to hike a 4hours trail and hike. We saw 9 small water falls and 1 big one…

So grateful for all our new friends we made while there.

And we are so grateful with our LLF’S coming all the way to hang and create more memories with us… the Ross family came and met with us…our first meet up was in Medellin Colombia. So glad they decided to come and meet us in Gatlinburg.

We really have had a great time in Gatlinburg And pigeon forge and we must say it might not be our last visit.

Now let’s get some pictures going

Goodbye Pigen Forge and Gatlinburg till we revisit you again.

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Time is ticking…We are on the move again. We got to spend some time in the city of country music.

Nashville is beautiful with music and country music stars all around the roads on the billboards.

We got to have dessert at the underwater dinning.

We got to see the grand ole opry. The stage that made country music huge.

Over all it was a lovely experience as we also got to the try the famous Nashville hot chicken at the pepperfire cafe.

Also our camp ground called yogi bear had so much to do it was amazing… they had… laser tag, blow up slides, forming splash…dive in..achery..and many more stuff for kids to do.

We are done with Nashville and off we go again hitting the road to Gatlingburg.

Yes..walking the streets of Beale all we saw are people performing and singing soul music. It was so good it got us moving while rolling down the streets.

We arrived and drove to the famous street called Beale street. It was packed with people. And lines and security to get on the street. And they don’t allow kids under 21yrs on that street after 10pm. That whole street is designated for music and drinking folks…as well as folks like me who does not really drink.

We did not visit the elvis Presley home as a tour. And the reason being we had not two people whom are both elvis Presley fans and they said the tour was not worth the $60 per person they charging. Also they said the tour was better 10yrs ago as this time they have packed up a lot of elvis items so not an interesting tour for the price they charging. So we did not take that tour. But our RV campground was right across the street from graceland so we did get to see elvis Presley house from afar.

Now we did visit the stax mesuem and that made us all fall in love with old soul music. It was definitely a tour worth taking and the price is right. It cost us $58 for all 6 of us to take that tour. Rich old soul music. Loved it.

After we visited the hotel where Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING was shot. The Loraine hotel in Room 306. That was nice to see that mesuem.

And right across the street of the hotel was central BBQ…finger licking bbq ribs and wings…with tasty mac and cheese and beans that will knock you out. It was so tasty and priced right. Memphis food was the one for me and my crew. Marcus loved it so much he called it the food experience.

Memphis is awesome and really loved it.

Tomorrow we leave for Nashville..

Goodbye Memphis..you are an amazing city filled with music and good food.

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