(Australia, December 17, 2015)

My friend Christine (Astra’s mom) organized a Christmas party again this year at the park in Marickville (inside the Girl Guide hall in the park.)

Here is the hall all decorated, before we let the kids in:

Rowena helped out with the games too.

This is the game I was supervising:

The first kids arrived:

This year the weather was beautiful, so some of the games took place outside.

Xsenia attempting to drop a ping-pong ball into the tray with a racket:

Candy race:

And finally, Santa arrived. The kids greeted him with a song:

After the party, some of the kids played outside for a while longer.