Family Fun Day!

Our school Parent Teacher Organization threw a grand party to celebrate Fall/Harvest Festival-Halloween.

Ian dressed up as a Rogue and Aria a Zoo Keeper, but despite the initial excitement, they became self-conscious when they arrived and realized that they were the only kids in costume.

So they dressed down very quickly to blend in.

The children were gathered around the prize table to explain how the tickets won from participating in various game booths may be exchanged for treats.

The entire event was free to the school having been subsidized by the PTO!

Monica and I ran the Ring-Toss Station. It was so popular that we kept running out of tickets.

The organizers were trying to re-cycle as many tickets as possible, but the children were hoarding the tickets attempting to acquire the most sought after prizes!

Eventually, they resorted to printing more tickets as fast as they can (very American :)

Our booth was so busy and popular that we did not get to wander around the other booths, but Aria returned with a painted face.

Shortly after we heard some commotion from the dunk tank.

One of our friends, Michelle, came to tell Monica that Ian had volunteered to get dunked in the dunk tank!

Monica arrived just in time to get this sequence of photos.

Ian ended up getting dunked a total of three times!

Monica said Ian was doing a great job taunting and teasing the participants to dunk him!

He was having so much fun along with the other kids that a long line of volunteers formed to be dunked in turn!

Eventually, Ian slowed down long enough to get his face painted.

Soon, it was time for final two events--Balloon Toss and Scarecrow Decorations.

The Balloon Toss generated a lot of humorous tension.

After three rounds, we were out of time.

It was mild anarchy when the children grabbed as many water balloons as they could and began pelting each other indiscriminately!

The Scarecrow competition was very competitive, and the models were great sports as they endured getting poked, pulled and decorated!

We were hot, tired and very happy at the end of the day.

Monica  had spent all day after breakfast baking gluten-free treats for the kids and cupcakes for this event.

We now have a fridge and freezer of treats to eat!

These faces tell all...

Back home, Monica got the kids to put their costumes  back on for a photo-shoot.

We had to do something about the disappointing start, after all!

~ Shien