Growing Up "Favorites" from the 60's!

Rope Jumping

Pirolito, a very tasty drink in bottles
with marble balls as lid covers.

See the marble ball inside?
I'd spend hours trying to retrieve it.

Another puzzle game we'd spend hours playing

Loved Easter Monday when priest
visited the village's homes

And who can forget Hide & Seek?

Regina chocolate umbrella

Rolling Book Library came to village twice a month!

Chewing Gum Bazooka

Chewing Gum Chicklets

Loved almonds at Easter Time.

Caramel hard candy

I was an avid magazine reader,
especially the ones about national and world celebrities

Playing the spherical ball game or marbles.
This ball was also made of glass, or iron.
We'd throw the ball with thumb finger.

                                                                                                        

Writing with pictures was already a favorite then.
Today I love Photo Journaling

No, I didn't ice skate like my grandchildren do today.
 I roller skated along sidewalks

Jumping over the bonfires people would set up
 in front of their houses
 every year on St John's Day, June 24th.

Family picnics in the summer at the forest and river of
Senhora de Lourdes in my hometown

Had fun studying at the private nun's high school,
wearing the morbid color uniform.

Loved those religious school retreats in the school campus
with close friends, where
we got in trouble for talking too much.

I had pen pals all over Portugal.
I exchanged postcards and letters with
other young teenagers, at the ages of 12, 13, 14.

Soon, I'll post the 70's! 

Once I turned 18 and living in US, the favorites changed! 

The 70's for me were a bit cloudy, 

a different saga in a foreign land.

The beginning of a different but yet interesting story!