Festivals- A Spring Fair & Medieval Day

We have had some busy weekends, the girls had a big Spring Festival at their school, they were excited on Friday to see everything going up on the field, if you bought wristbands for 150 Rand ($15.00 US) they could go on all the rides.  Here is the field all set up with the rides.

In typical SA fashion, they had crazy death defying things kids could go on, here is Charlie going up the GIANT slide, it was freaky to watch him climb up!  They also had bungee jumping, bubble machines blowing bubbles into moonbounces, blow up hamster balls you could go in on the water.

Another view of the slide so you can appreciate how huge it was...

Greg and I got to go to a neat event at the German Ambassadors house, it was the 25th Anniversary of the Unification of Germany after the Berlin Wall came down.  The ambassador did a nice speech, we went through a receiving line (our Coast Guard training paid off), then we got to have some German beer and food.  We met a very nice couple that has kids the same age as our kids and we exchanged info.  Soon after they invited us to a Medieval Day at their church.  It was to celebrate Reformation Day in Germany.  We all had fun dressing up.

The kids loved the crazy games, Charlie got to Joust against a tin can knight on a zip line.

 Katie tried the blow darts-crazy!

Kelly & Katie tried the crazy pillowfight, we were glad neither of them fell off, we saw other kids fall off and start crying...it was a big drop and only some old pillows to land on!!

Then Charlie loved the knight swordfighting exhibition, Katie & Charlie even got to take a turn in the ring.

Good times had by all, we look forward to having our new German friends come see what American Halloween is like, we are gearing up for a big Halloween party for Kelly & Katie's classmates from the South African school.  We shipped in a bunch of American candy and we are planning a haunted house!