Quince Part 2

The girls performing their dances

Arturo taking pictures of his girls dancing

Her first dance with a young man

All the little girls watching

Martha after getting into a frosting fight (it's a universal thing)

Getting ready to throw the flower for the girls (this was before Arielle and I were told we had to participate)

The boys getting ready to catch the flower

The typical picture of Arielle sleeping

This set of twins agreed with Arielle

Too much parting for this table

Musical Chairs

The Quince!

July 25^th – Friday (Quince Day)

                The Day has arrived! There was a flurry of activity all day long. We had ladies show up at 10 am to begin the cooking process for the Quince dinner. There was mopping, raking, sweeping, moving of heavy objects, tables being set up, décor being placed and hair. We had different party goers start showing up as early as 4 the event didn’t start till 6.

                Have you ever done hair for a wedding? Well this was very similar, only imagine a wedding with a bridal party of 20 and where the median age is 13. We started hair at about 12:30 and didn’t finish until 5:45. Arielle and the neighbor lady did intricate braids and twist for the top half of their hair and then I put ringlets in the hair that was left down. I am the ringlet master now just so ya all know! Well Arielle and I grabbed our stuff and ran to our room to get ourselves ready when we finished, since the event was suppose to start at 6. We needed have rushed I think we started closer to 6:30.

                The service was lovely and the party afterwards was fun. The girls did all their dances, Leo danced with a bunch of different people. We visited, ate, Leo threw flowers and we played games. The festivities lasted until 11:30 that evening. Arielle and I had a amazing time. We sat with some really fun people who were willing to work with the language barrier to include us.

Cleaning Chairs (Thursday)

Cleaning the Chapel (Thursday)

Arielle Going Skater Punk in the first dress they gave her to wear

Humana in her "hiding" place

Lilia making the seasoning for the meat

Suchie and Maria ironing the guys clothes for the quince

Mrs. Alex making Macoroni Salad

Arielle and Maria

Leo

Arturo making sure to capture the perfect shot of his "daughter"

Evelyn/Emily and Arielle

Krista and Martha

Maria and Denise

Mylee and Arielle

Krista and twin in green ;-)

Rosetta bringing in the pillow to kneel on

The flower girl

Ankarita bring in the ring

Denise with the bottle of oil

Rala, Humana and Suchi with the adult shoes

Lilia with the Bible

 

Humana after putting the doll on the altar

Praying over Leo

Arturo changing her shoes (she is now rready to walk in life as an adult)

Her first dance

SicklaLey and Martha

Krista and Sicklalee

The altar with all the offerings

Ankarita