St. Martin again:
Nov. 7th, 2012 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckAs promised pictures of the kindergarten festivities.
I don't have pictures of how we walked through the nearby allotments with our lanterns and torches of the non-electric variety following a former kindergarten kid walking ahead dressed in Roman uniform as St. Martin. The kids were asking where he'd left his horse - at home, he said. There were also three musicians who played St. Martin songs for us and we sang along.
The kid was excited and so was the lantern:
I'm not kidding myself that he made this himself - let's just say that the kindergarten teachers helped him a little...
On the last few metres of our 'procession' the lantern lost a leg and then it was time to have a bonfire behind the kindergarten where we got more music and two children re-enacting the story of how Martin of Tours, when he was still a Roman soldier, met a beggar sitting in the snow and cut his cloak in half so that he wouldn't freeze to death. Then we had very soft and sweet bread, hot cocoa and hot fruit punch for the kids and mulled wine for the adults.
But I don't have pictures of all this. My excuse is that I didn't take my tripod.
I can show you some more pictures of the kid's lantern:
Lit, in the dark:
Winking at you:
The kid loved it and now he keeps telling us that he wants to do another lantern walk, but this time to celebrate autumn.
I don't have pictures of how we walked through the nearby allotments with our lanterns and torches of the non-electric variety following a former kindergarten kid walking ahead dressed in Roman uniform as St. Martin. The kids were asking where he'd left his horse - at home, he said. There were also three musicians who played St. Martin songs for us and we sang along.
The kid was excited and so was the lantern:
I'm not kidding myself that he made this himself - let's just say that the kindergarten teachers helped him a little...
On the last few metres of our 'procession' the lantern lost a leg and then it was time to have a bonfire behind the kindergarten where we got more music and two children re-enacting the story of how Martin of Tours, when he was still a Roman soldier, met a beggar sitting in the snow and cut his cloak in half so that he wouldn't freeze to death. Then we had very soft and sweet bread, hot cocoa and hot fruit punch for the kids and mulled wine for the adults.
But I don't have pictures of all this. My excuse is that I didn't take my tripod.
I can show you some more pictures of the kid's lantern:
Lit, in the dark:
Winking at you:
The kid loved it and now he keeps telling us that he wants to do another lantern walk, but this time to celebrate autumn.
