Halloween

Halloween was really busy here. Halloween is not really celebrated here, but we went to kermess and to church.

A kermess is a little party. Yesterday there was a kermess at Rosy's school. It was a fundraiser for the school. The kermess had lots of games and lots of food. We loaded up everyone and drove to Manos Felices in the van yesterday. Marc bought a lot of tickets and distributed them to everyone. We all had certain kids for which we were responsible. I had Doris. She was too overwhelmed by all that was going on to get excited about everything. She buried her head most of the time.



Not so, for everyone else. They were doing this game and that game and using their tickets for food. Jose did not play any games either. He spent all of his tickets on food.



As we walked in, there was a game in which someone had to stand behind this board and put on safety glasses and open their mouth. For one ticket, a person could buy three large marshmallows, dip them in chocolate and thrown at the person's mouth behind the board. Of course, not too many people could hit an open mouth. We talked Marc into getting behing the board and everyone of our kids threw three chocolate covered marshmallows at Marc. No one hit his mouth, but many marshmallows hit his face. He was a chocolate mess. When Reina finished, she wiped her chocolate hands on her white shirt. I even got Doris to throw the marshmallows at Marc.



These simple little games all of the kids enjoyed, even Jocyly and Erica. I am not sure some of the kids had ever seen anything like that. Marc bought a pretty generous amount of tickets, but it sure did not take long to go through them all.



We don't do a lot of outings for the kids, but there was two special events yesterday. Last night, we had church from 7:00 -12:30 this morning. There was singing and skits and food breaks. A lot of our kids were in at least one skit, some more. The youth group has practiced the skits every day this week. The Casa kids, as a group, sang four songs and recited the books of the Bible. Erica was in one skit and sang a couple of songs with another person. This was huge for Erica. She is probably one of the most shy people I have ever seen in my life.



Again, the kids were excited, not only about the activities of the evening, but also that they got to stay up late. Some were pretty tired by 12:30. They tried hard not to admit or show it. I was tired and I did not mind admitting it.



It was a beautiful service. There was over 80 people there, one of the largest attendance we have had except when Torch groups visit. I thought that was very exciting for so many people to spend their Saturday night in church. We had communion around 12:30 this morning. What a great way to start the week.



It took longer than I thought it would to get everyone to bed. I guess they were beyond tired and just excited about so much activity in one day.



Terri