ENSENADA CHRISTMAS
December 15-17, 2006
This is my third time down in Ensenada, serving the community with my church Mosaic. Urban Poets, the drama/dance team from Mosaic, was invited to perform two shows, one for the families of city employees and the other for kids (I think from local schools?). We were expecting 1000 kids, but it was a cold day so there was probably less than 300. The performance was in a small open-air ampitheater.
Afterwards, there was bag lunches. After lunch, the kids could do arts and crafts, which ranged from coloring ornaments, sticker nativity scenes, and taking a picture for a photo frame. There was also face and tattoo painting. At the end, the kids were given gifts. Friday night there was a gift wrapping party, but I had gotten to Ensenada at midnight so I didn't wrap gifts until Saturday morning.
The mayor surprised us by inviting Urban Poets to perform downtown at a popular restaurant/bar. We congregated there and passersby stopped to watch the show. Afterwards, we headed to the church in Ensenada we serve with for dinner and had yummy street-style tacos. It didn't rain during the day, praise God, but it did at night. We headed to get filled churros anyways and then I went to sleep.
There aren't really that many pictures because I'm not used to using my new digital camera at the moment. But I hope you get the idea.
One of the kids from Kidsmosaic, Michaela drew a shooting star tattoo on my arm!
The Christmas band who performed songs for the audience, full of mostly kids and some adults.
A salsa dancing team who practiced a lot for a small segment of the show, but they were great!
There is a crowd of kids making arts and crafts!
Urban Poets, the drama/dance team, was invited to perform in front of a restaurant in downtown Ensenada! I'm standing across the street by the tree because I didn't get any good shots of the dancing at the stage.
Kirsten and I in front of the hotel waiting for the vans to go back to LA.
Rainbow on our drive to the Mexican border!
Jess and I in the back of the van. At the border we witnessed the arrest of a drug smuggler. Wild.
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