Independence Day - Part 2

PICNIC!!

Saturday, after sleeping in until 10am (some of the church staff slept until after 12!!), the church staff headed out to the town of Tlacote, where Edith lives. We brought all the leftovers from the Friday night party at church - three flavors of tamales (including my favorite - sweet tamales with pineapple!!), quesadillas, tostadas, and 10 gallons of "agua" - pineapple and horcahta (we had 20 gallons in total the night before, wow!)

After a good big meal and a game of 3 on 3 basketball, Martin headed up some picnic games.
Recognize this? -
This time, we threw wet sponges, and it was supposedly at the birthday people! Justin and Edtih both had their birthdays on September 16, so that was another reason for the party. But, seeing as Edith is a woman, and turning 58, they decided to give her a break and let her pick someone else to get sponges thrown at them in her place, so we didn't get to throw them at Edith, but at JP insead.

We also had a water relay game in which my jeans got completely soaked, and american football with water balloons!!

Here is the whole group of independence day picnickers:
Justin and Edith with their birthday cakes (Justin turned 30!!)
And Justing after his "mordida" (every birthday person has to take a bite out of their cake, and 99% of the time, someone smashes your face in the cake while you take a bite. However, after 58 birthdays, Edith has learned how to bite her cake and avoid getting her face smashed in it... I was really looking forward to seeing that...!)
It was a beautiful day for a picnic... until about 7pm when a cold wind started blowing and we frantically threw everything in the house and left for QRO, but enroute, we got in a torrential downpour - couldn't even see past the car in front of us on the highway. But we made it home safely - still wet from the water games, and then from the rain - but safe and happy!