This weekend was jam-packed with fun and excitement–we spent the better part of Saturday experiencing JAARS Day and closed out Saturday night with our first family outing to a real, live auction in a nearby town.
Cyclops tries out his chops on the didgeridoo. One of the really cool activities at JAARS Day is the ethnomusicology tent. They have instruments from around the world that the kids can play with and experience. Cyclops was pretty good with the didgeridoo, but Dad was better.
The kids had lots of fun, and we came home with lots of goodies, but we were very tired at the end of the weekend. Normally, I might set up each of the images with the context. Today, however, we’ve got deep captions to do that for us.
All the kids had the chance to try out the process of prepping metal for rivets and setting them in a piece of aluminum. Here, Phoenix is working with a JAARS member who volunteered to help the kids to make aluminum/rivet letters for their initials. She’s not too excited about the noise of the pneumatic rivet buster.
After JAARS Day, we headed back to the apartment, where we rested and got dinner, and then it was off to Marshville, NC for a night at the auction.
We took the whole family to the auction house to see what all the hubbub was about. The kids had popcorn, and Miranda and I perused the stuff for sale–think swap meet meets flea market meets American Pickers, but without the glamor and all the nice things. We bought a few items, including a bike to use while we’re here, which we’ll pass to another missionary family when we leave.
If we ever go back to the auction, this will be our “paddle” number–for life! There were some folks who had paddles in the low 100s…they must’ve been going to the auction for decades.