Moon Cake Festival

The fastest pomelo peelers in the CG

We celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, aka Mooncake Festival in our cellgroup on Friday. For us, this is not only a time to stuff ourselves with mooncakes but also a time to celebrate the harvest. Yes, a harvest of blessings. A time when we look back and take stock of all the blessings we have received from God.

After the preaching of the word, we celebrated mooncake festival by playing games and eating. What else - mooncakes. We even brought a pot of hot chinese tea along!

Waiting eargerly for the game to start.

Ready, get set, go!

Everyone was very focused on the game...

Lighting up the lanterns...

hanging them up...

without burning down any trees...

Though we did burn a few lanterns in our haste,...

But fear not, no trees were harmed in the process.

And the winning team who finished lighting and hanging 15 lanterns on a tree first!

The opposition team who claimed their tree looked better and nicer..., what can we say?

Playing with fires... or sparkles?

Beauties and the beast, boy. Just kidding, Kasey!

Candid shot with everyone still scrambling into positions...

Ready, one, two, pose!

And one more...

and another one...

and yet another one...

I told you, we are a photo-loving CG!

Say cheeeeeze!! With peace sign from everyone. We can be really cheeeesy when we want to.

This last photo was taken after one of us came up with the crazy idea of setting the camera timer first, then have everyone rushed over to the destined spot. And that's what we did. We set the camera's timer, than with 10 seconds to spare, everyone rushed to the slide and clambered up and posed. Flash. And that's the result.