Birthday/Farewell Party Part II

A couple of weeks ago we had a birthday party/farewell party for JJ's school mates. See blog post: Birthday Party Farewell Party.  Since that party was a 15 minute drive from here, it did not include the children from our purok (neighborhood).

Since Flor had been doing feedings (see post Rain Rain Go Away) for the kids in the purok, we wanted to have a party for the purok kids as well.  Purok 1, that is by the beach, had constructed a new beach shed and we rented it for the party.

We had the party on April 5. On April 3 we had gone to Sogod (about 2 hours away) to take care of some business. On the way back from Sogod, a front wheel bearing in the Revo fell apart.  The morning of April 4 we talked to the local mechanic and he could put a new bearings in if we brought him the hub. Later that afternoon, we brought him the hub and he said it would be about 1 hour. We had to be somewhere else so we told him we would be back in the morning of April 5. We returned the morning of April 5 and it was not done. The mechanic had not found the bearing yet and said he probably have to send one of his helpers to another town. Mike will not go into his typical rant about it, just refer back to blog post Toyota Revo, AKA, I miss auto parts stores.  

Back to the party. Since the Revo was out of commission we loaded must of the stuff for the party on a 2 wheeler and hauled it the ½ mile to the beach.

We had about 12 kids from our purok walk with us to the beach and we picked up more as we went. When we got to the beach, the older boys began to make sand balls, like we would make snow balls in winter. They are meticulous  about it and make some very nice balls.

The rest of the kids including JJ went swimming.

Lorenz had his luthang (loot-hang) (see previous post Home Made Toy).  As hard as they tried, they could not get it to pop.

After about 1½ hours playing JJ come up to the shed saying he was hungry. We went ahead and fed the kids. JJ was first in line. By this time we had probably about 25 kids in attendance.

Some of the kids used the boats that were on the beach as their table and chair.

In typical Filipino fashion, we had enough food for a lot more people than were there. So we started yelling at kids that were walking down the road to come eat. Mike did not want to haul the food ½ mile back to the house.

After eating the kids returned to the beach. Mike, at one time, counted about 45 kids there.

Since there is not snow here, one of the things kids do is have sand fights on the beach. JJ became involved in a running sand fight and we did not even tell him not to throw sand.

There was tree climbing.

There were kids playing in the sand.

There were kids playing on one of the boats.

After eating JJ had gone back to the beach and was not at the shed when the cola was opened. After playing for about another hour, JJ came to the shed thirsty. He was in luck, there was just enough Royal (orange cola) left for him to have.

About 5:30 we headed back with shivering, tired kids.  Thank you to Marilou, Abet, Mike and one of the kids' mom, Belen, who helped to make this a fun and exciting day for the neighborhood kids.

And until next time, thank you for following.  Love y'all!