Carnival Days! (in pictures)

Fun, games, relay races,
food, candy, face painting, music, laughs, balloon-making, clowns, mimes,
friends, families, prizes, and the love of God…this is what I was surrounded
with Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. 
We put on a carnival for two barrios in the area.  Saturday we went to a smaller barrio park
area and Sunday we put on a larger carnival where.  It was a crazy time and it went so fast
continually moving to keep up with all the kids who wanted to play games.  My job was being in charge of the bean-bag
toss.  And by bean-bag I mean, bags of
rice wrapped in duct tape (it works for everything!)  Since we’ve been on a smaller budget this
year, we’ve learned how to be more creative with everything.  We used buckets for tossing the rice into and
just spread them out to different distances. 
Many of the other stations, such as the ring-toss, and relay games were
very creative as well.  Near the end,
when we shut my station down to allow more kids to participate in relay races,
it was fun to just find kids who were by themselves or in a small group and
talk to them…get to know them a bit and make a new friend.  I know the kids enjoyed the day.  I pray that the love of Christ was shown as
we created these carnivals and were around the kids for several hours each
day.  I will let the pictures tell the
rest…God is good!