Smurftastic!

Underneath the blaring headline featuring the train wreck of Brittany was a much more heartening story: The Smurf’s turned 50! The cute, blue staples of my childhood cartoon time are still around and better yet, they are teaming with my favorite branch on the UN (yes, I realize this is a major sign of my geekiness), UNICEF! Smurfs are still super popular in the EU nations. I ate the blue Schtroumpf (French/Dutch name for Smurf) Ice cream a few times in France and saw plenty of comics/books of Smurf adventures in stores. Thank goodness some vestige of my childhood is still pretty much unchanged and still popular. Smurfette and Papa Smurf keep up the smurfing good job!!