Elijah's 6th Birthday Party

We decided to do Elijah's party indoors this year because the weather had been so rainy. It was in the Southern Breeze room at Ocean Breeze Club on Camp Foster. I think we can all agree it was a success :-)

The Room

Party grab bags filled with goodies...

The room was free, but the catch was we had to get the food and drinks catered.

Tim worried that we didn't have enough food. I worried we had too much. Turned out it was just about perfect. Only a few sandwiches and quiches leftover:-)

Watching Kotora the clown!!

He was funny and entertaining for the kids and adults!

David's bow and arrow

Zachary's Lightening McQueen car

Cameron's sword and ensemble

Elijah's crocodile and Spiderman

Olivia's butterfly

We played a lot of games too!

The Pinata

Musical Chairs

For this game, we had 3 teams. Each team had to pop their balloons and find the letters to the birthday boy's name. Whoever finished first won.

Pin the coins on the Superhero point poster

Guess how many starburst jellybeans are in each jar...the person closest gets the jar!

Happy Birthday Boy!

The Iron Man cake

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Blowing out the candles...

All out...

Wait!! They're relighting!! Gotta love trick candles!

Dancing

Elijah and Jazmyne

2 thumbs up!!

Presents!!

My little Iron Man :-)

Okinawa Perfectual Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Prayer Park

On the way to the museum/park, Noah saw this place and said, "Hey!!! That's my house!!"

LOL....

Peace Prayer Park

The Cornerstone of Peace is a place to remember and honor the more than 240,000 people who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa during WWII. Their names, miltary and civilian alike, regardless of nationality are inscribed on the Cornerstone of Peace. It also serves as a place for us to appreciate the peace in which we live in today, and pray for everlasting world peace.

United States of America

My mom's maiden name: Maurice Clay Hall

My maiden name: Buford Carol Dunsworth

Photo op!!

Haha...kids weren't into a photo op today...it was a hot one!

I was up for it though :-)

The Peace Memorial Musuem was created "In order that we may mourn for those who perished during the war, pass on to future generations the historic lessons of the Battle of Okinawa, convey our message to the people of the world and thereby contribute to establishing permanent peace."

-Quoted from Brochure at museum

The above picture was a "remake" of the residents taking refuge in a cave.

The picture below is an enlarged photograph of a victim at a battle site.

Noah asked me who killed that little boy. Such a big question for such a little guy to understand...

A canteen that still contained some of the original water from a fallen soldier.

Interesting poem...esp in the midst of another war...

Museum exhibit...

Lol...

Another interesting poem...

12,363.28km=7682 miles from Naha, Okinawa to Washington, D.C. straight shot

I've always wanted to eat here because it looked interesting. The food wasn't that bad, but it wouldn't be a place I would want to go back to.