Kids Day

Today was "Kids Day" in Korea and the base celebrated with a little festival for the kids. The CYS hosted the festival and it was at the Elementary School here on base. It was fairly crowded but not as bad as I thought it would be. It was nice having it at the school because they had the playground to play on along with the booths set up for the event. Sadly, it was not a nice day outside so we were only able to stay for about an hour or so. It has been beautiful weather for the past few weeks and I was upset to see of all days for it to rain, it did it today as the kids were having SO much fun. They had food stands set up, several "carnival" type games as well as the famous jumperoo and the dunk tank. They had balloons, face painting and several other things as well. Best of all it was ALL free!!!!! That is the great thing here on base is they provide festivals throughout the year and most of it is free. I believe the food did cost but not very much and we did not eat there. Aiden had so much fun doing the dunk tank. I felt bad for the guy in there as it was chilly today and he was visibly cold. Anyways, the kids got three tries and Aiden did it twice. The first set of throws he did really well. The second throw hit the bulls eye dead on and he threw it hard enough to make it dunk but it did not. The guy even thought he was going down because he got the "fear" look on his face and even held his nose. Aiden was a little disappointed it did not work but he got back in line and tried again. The second set of balls he did not get as close. He always was in the right area but never hit it again. I felt bad he did not get him with his "good throw" as he should have. He took it with pride though and the guy in the tank told him he did a great job and almost got him :) Enjoy the pictures below and the next scheduled festival here on base is on Josh's b-day!!!!