This past Sunday afternoon, I experienced the first major social event at my summer assignment: the first (in a long time and now possibly annual) St. John's Parish Picnic. It was a fun afternoon with burgers, dogs, and quite the spread of all the necessary picnic accessories. We had chips, dips, salads, sides, and more! All of them delicious! Though I must say that Dirt Pudding was conspicuously absent from the dessert spread... hmm... perhaps I will have to introduce the people of St. John's to this delicacy....Even without the Dirt Pudding, we still had a very good turn out. About seventy people signed up to bring food, and I would say we had just about one hundred people drop by over the course of three hours. I got to meet many of the families in the parish, and I hope that I will get to meet all the people I never had a chance to chat with at the picnic very soon. There was just such a nice atmosphere at the picnic, the kind of atmosphere that only arises when you bring good people together; I want to get to know them all, even if only a little bit.
That's really all I have to say about the picnic, except that I'm hoping to post at least a few more pictures soon. I want to ask for people's permission though, first, especially before I put any kids' pictures up. There were a lot of kids at the picnic, getting their faces painted and chowing down on snow cones and cotton candy. That was a big part of what made the atmosphere so pleasant, I think. The happiness of children is contagious.
Love and Blessings,
~J
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