Parent Weekend

So every quarter our work has a parent weekend where the parents come to visit their children and to take counseling classes together on how to strengthen their families.  It's a great program and on Friday night we have a big dinner for everyone with a program.  Sometimes the program is done by the kids and other times it is done by the staff.  This time it was the staff's turn so we did a big Ellen Degeneres Game of Games type show.  It was hilarious.  Ruben and Joel were the Emcee's and did a fabulous job.  They were actually players in the 1st round of Egg Roulette where two people sit facing each other and choose and egg and smash it on their head.  Now some of the eggs are hard boiled and some are not.   The first person to get two raw eggs lost.  Well, Joel got 2 raw eggs in a row!  It was great!  I videoed the first one.

Here is Joel after Ruben found a hard boiled one, saying there's no way that he is going to get back-to-back raw eggs.

Joel picked the egg closest to Ruben just in case the ones by him were hard boiled.

 Not the case.   He walked around with the piece of shell on his forehead for 5 minutes!

Then they had a couple non messy games for the kids and then a couple more rounds of Egg Roulette with other staff members and then Joel did a game with Dr. Chad and Carlos, one of the therapists.  Joel would ask, what seemed like, an obvious question but wasn't. If you got it wrong you got a bucket of something pored on our head.  Dr, Chad lost.  Bigtime.  It was awesome.  The kids loved this entire show.  I think it was one of our best one yet.  We are glad that it's over so that the week can go back to normal and kids can concentrate on school again.  We have been going to these for 10 years now and these people are our work family, as dysfunctional as they are, we all love and care about each other and it works.  It's great to help these kids and see the change that comes into their lives for good.