Family Fun Day

 As you may recall, I rent a guest house in the compound of the Foundation for Building Indonesian-American Friendship.  A big part of what they do here is teach English.  Last Sunday they had a “family day” picnic.  It was held at the tail end of the holiday season when people do a lot of these kinds of events.  We went to a resort area with a wide river for swimming and nice mountain air, it was cool (for the tropics)

One big activity was “swimming” in the river.  It was flowing far to fast to actually swim but it was  a very popular activity.  You will see lots of people in the picture of the river.  There were several other groups there as well.  In addition , there were all sorts of events and contests including “cracker on a string” eating contest, carrying a stone in a spoon, as well as such relay races as catch and carry eels – whoever carries the most eels (one at time)wins and for the children “catch koi in a muddy pond”.  

 

I had some UNF temporary tattoos that I brought for the children.  There were a hit -- sort of.  The children were too nervous at first, so my friend Andan had me put one on him to show them it would not hurt.  Then all the men wanted tattoos.  Eventually more children wanted them as they saw that most of the men had these tattoos.