Every year our church has a Reformation Party and chili contests on the 31st of October. It's the day that we celebrate Martin Luther posting of his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517.
We've been doing this at our church for 7 years now (in fact it was the second time we ever went to this church). Each year the kids have tons of fun, playing games, eating candy, being with friends, and trying to see who can kill all their taste buds first with the chili.
This year with the party being on a Saturday it took a little more planning on our side since we had four markets to be in and couldn't bring all the kids with us to market. It worked like a dream, even though the adults of the family were running purely on coffee by the end of the day.
This year the girls also dressed up. They weren't too keen on dressing as bible characters as that would mean they would have to make entire new outfits. So they went as the wife’s of reformers or woman who is very rarely known and who helped translate the bible. The girls loved dressing up and were very disappointed in me as I was a "spoil sport" and wouldn't dress up like the rest of them.
I have to say that even though, by the end of the day I was really only running on sugar and coffee it was very enjoyable and I wish we had far less candy and desserts in the house right now. lol
2 comments:
Oh, Katie. How come you were a spoil-sport and didn't dress up? ;) I'm sure it was fun for everyone- both those who did and those who didn't dress up. :-)
Because, as the oldest that is my job to be the spoil-sport. lol
Yes, it was tons of fun, even for those who did not dress up! :D
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