Rose announced that today was the best day of Sunday School ever. When I asked what made it so special, she said she got to be a servant in the classroom Purim play. Ok, that sounds fun, but the best ever? It's also true that the day was one big party.

They watched the Purim play put on by the overacting crossdressing grown-ups. I planned to watch it with David, but as we approached the sanctuary doors, David freaked out. I'm still not sure why. Maybe because I warned him it might be kind of loud with everyone booing Hamen. Instead, David and I hung out in the lobby being annoyed at each other.

After the play, Rose went back to her classroom for a party because they've learned the entire Hebrew alphabet or aleph bet as it's called in Hebrew. They put on the play and ate cupcakes, mnms, and potato chips. Rose had her g-f cupcake ready to go. Did I mention everyone was dressed up? Rose and 9 out of 10 girls in her classroom came as Esther, the good queen. Miriam went with Vashti, the, reclaimed by feminists but otherwise disdained, spurned queen. (I can never understand why Vashti has the reputation of a slut and yet she lost her crown because she refused to have sex with the king's buddies.) You didn't have to come as a character in the Purim story. I saw Zoro, a banana, fairies big and small, and David came as Clark Kent. He wore a button up shirt over his superman shirt.

While Rose was in class, David and I hung out in the playground and waited and waited and waited for the Purim carnival to get set up. It was a gorgeous day, but really, we would not have been there that early if we hadn't tried for the play.

The carnival was great. Fairy castle bouncy house, spin art, throw the water balloon at the rabbi's head, golf for groggers. . .David was really excited to win a grogger because I had refused to buy him one when he refused to go to the play. (A grogger is a noise maker that you spin every time Haman's name gets said in the story. You're trying to drown it out. Purim is a very loud, giddy, and traditionally for the adults, drunken holiday.)

And because it was outside, the kids could go back and forth between bowling for pixi sticks and just playing. I agree it was a really fun day.