Sports Spectacular

Saturday was just fabulous! We rode our bikes to an event at the church at the end of our street. It was their annual Sportsmen's Spectacular, complete with a real skeet shoot for the adults and a number of kid booths that included a hatchet toss, spear throw, BB gun shooting, blow gun shooting, paintball, sawing a log, slingshot shooting, a casting contest, and archery. Dennis participated in many of these things. He didn't win one of the trophies, but he did really well. He liked the bouncy house the best, of course, and insisted we stay for the Wild Game Dinner. We did, tasting quail, elk, various deer dishes, alligator, frog legs, duck, various wilderness stews, and regular barbecue. We had plates just full of meat, much of it hunted and prepared by church members. Everything was super delicious, and we got to enjoy the evening's entertainment as well, a message by a Christian comedian with a little touch of redneck to him (perfect for a Sportsmen's event). Dennis loved every minute of it, but I have to admit my favorite part of the evening came when the speaker had just told the parable of the prodigal son and was discussing how the father must have been watching for his return. He asked how the father could have seen him, saying "how do you see something that's far off?", and Dennis piped up from the audience "with binoculars!", good for a laugh from everyone along with praise for what was actually a correct answer to his question. Our preschool director, who was not sitting with us, knew exactly who had spoken that answer when she heard it. We are so thrilled that she invited us to such a fun event. What a novelty to be hanging out at a church service with gun toting folks all around (yes, with their guns)! We had a rather dark (and thankfully short) bike ride home, chased by the neighborhood dogs for a short piece of our journey. We were glad to be home. Dennis and I were beyond exhausted, and when he woke up yesterday with a sore throat, I agreed with his decision to stay home. In fact, I stayed in myself today with a migraine, happy now to be mostly recovered and ready for this big and active week!