#JustYouth Summer Grand Finale: Beach Party

We teamed up with Real School and Young Life to throw a beach party to end our summer of events. 

We served a ton of watermelon and iced tea.

We rented a generator and had music and later some dancing games on a big screen.

Slip and slide:

Steve getting a bucket of water in the face at the end of the slip and slide courtesy of our friend Tolik:

Young Life leaders planned a few water games (including 500 water balloons that Steve and I spent all afternoon filling up with help from Yegor and Marina).

Steve spoke about going back to school and having a fresh start in school and in life: 

As we waited for the sun to set so that we could use the screen there were games of volleyball and ultimate frisbee.

It finally got dark enough to use the screen so we played the game for about 20 minutes and the generator ran out of gas!! I thought someone was supposed to be in charge of that because Steve and I were under the impression that we were going to be staying and partying until 10 p.m or later but at this point we were told that whoever rented the generator, rented it for four hours worth of time/gas. Awesome.

Soooooooo as it is now illegal to have open fires on the beach, we packed up just as it was starting to get dark and headed home. Everyone who wanted to congregated at Rainbow Park to hang out there for longer so Steve dropped the boys and I off at home and then headed over there to meet up with people. It was a little disappointing but the time we did have was really fun and we had a lot of teenagers come so in the end, it was a good way to wrap up our busy summer season.