5th Annual EDGE Lock-In

This is the 2nd year that i have volunteered with the EDGE junior high youth group with our church. Each year we do an all night lock-in for the kids in the school gym. It is a survivor style competition, with the kids broken into 3 tribes. This year our theme was Survivor: Mexico. We kicked off the night by attending 5:00 mass and then after that, back to the school for pizza and other goodies. We also rented one of those giant inflatable obstacle courses, which is a hit every year! After dinner we broke the kids into their tribes and, it was time for the competition to begin! The EDGE core team did a great job creating games for the competition and decorating the gym. We all put alot of time and effort into making this a great time for everyone!

The EDGE core minus Theresa and Chris C.

Since the theme was Mexico, we had fiesta decor and let each tribe smash a pinata filled with candy...Our Lady of Guadalupe was also a central figure in our decorating and we even had a game dedicated to her.

the whole group of kids

This was the food competition, which i was in charge of : ) I got a bunch of nasty foods and a few that weren't too bad as well. Each kid had to pick a covered plate and eat what was on it. The tribe that was fastest to eat all the foods won. Some of the foods included sardines, oysters, beef baby food, tapioca pudding, okra, asparagus, refried beans......YUCK!

This year i did not stay all night (i did last year, and it was a blast)! I wanted to, but the thought of taking care of kids the next day on no sleep did not sound too appealing!