This was Eric and Mindy's group's booth. They were smart and did something that both looked spectacular and wasn't overly-complicated to make. They were one of the only groups that didn't have to scramble about on Sunday to finish up. And of course the kid's LOVED being "dragon slayers" hehehe.

This was the "Choose Your Own Adventure" booth where the kids got to pick a story and depending on which one they chose there was a different activity for them to complete in order to be the hero.

And of course, what medieval village would be complete without its shield shop? The "dragon" provided the fire for our little blacksmiths and even breathed smoke (dry ice) at some points in the night! I'm telling you, there is crazy talent at my church....

And now welcome to the land of Zelda! This was our booth of course...

Going a little out of order here now just so I can show you the group of us that constructed it. This was taken at the end of the night which is why we all look a little pooped. Whoo Tentmakers yeah! (Tentmakers is what we call those of us between college and family-life in our church). I'm on the far left in the green dress..my Princess Arwen costume and Paul is the knight directly behind me.

Here's how it looked on Saturday as we scrambled to make something from scraps of wood, cardboard and butcher paper.

Enter if you dare! Just kidding, it's not scary...seriously kids...it's not scary, come on in!

This was the first "challenge" in the maze. The kids had to take "bombs" (aka black spray painted nerfballs with a piece of waxy string taped on) at the Zelda monsters in order to open the trap door that would take them to the next part of the maze.

Once they made it past the monsters here they have the challenge of making it across the moat. It actually wasn't very hard because the plank was HUGE, but a lot of the kids were really cute and seemed to think they were actually in danger of falling into the (half-inch) water.

Once they successfully crossed the bridge they had to dig through these treasure boxes to find the key that opened the next door.

Here's Unyung (I'm spelling that how it sounds, sorry if I'm butchering it!) who made the treasure boxes, posing with his creations...He fastened each and every one of those gold brackets with love.

And once they find the key, the door opens into our little lava pit. A lot of the kids had a hard time figuring out that those red buckets are actually "safe spots" and not...lava.

The last "challenge" was to "defeat the knight" by throwing bombs at him. Paul was the knight for most of the evening and some of the kids who went through more than once started waiting for him to get really close before throwing the "bomb" with ALL their might. We had him falling over dead at first but then some of the kids started bawling so we refined our technique and just had the "defeated knight" hunch over in the corner once he had been hit.

Now let's move onto the prehistoric room (aka fellowship hall)...

Here is the college freshmans giving volcano on Saturday...

And here it is in all its glory on the night of the Festival! Keep in mind everything was hand-made/drawn by people at the church.

The dino-nest where kids hunted for "dino-eggs."

Above is pictured the famed "cave painting" cave. The kids crawled inside and drew on black butcher paper that they were allowed to rip off and take home with them. The cave was surprisingly big on the inside, it was actually possible for adults to stand up inside if they tilted their heads a bit.

I heard this was actually a pretty challenging game. The kids had to get aluminum foil rings around the "dino spikes."

This was a musical chairs type game except the kids just walked around the tree until the music stopped and whoever was standing under the candy got to pull it off the tree.

Now entering the WILD WILD WEST!

The Kingdom Builders (people with families) did the Wild West rooms, they had the advantage of children as cute props.

Rootbeer coin toss. This also looked quite difficult.

Here you see the general store where they could redeem their tickets for prizes like sherrif's badges and other wild west related toys.

The wild west just wouldn't be the wild west if you couldn't mine for gold! Or sift through rice for hidden coins =)

Lasso-ing horse heads is extremely difficult. None of us "adults" could do it but I bet the kids rocked those horses. Kids are definitely better at these things.

Here we are in Super Mario World! Whomp the goombas! (aka the high school kids with goomba hats on).

The highschoolers made a "bridge" out of chairs and some planks of plywood. The kids had to cross the rickety bridge and throw koosh balls at Bowser. Even though he was made out of wood I hear by the end of the night poor old Bowser wasn't faring too well.

The last of the themed areas was the Future/Star Wars rooms. Star Wars Skeeball anyone?

I came in here before they were done setting up, but this is where the Star Wars can toss was, complete with Star Wars playing on the big screen in the background.

Last but not least, glow in the dark DDR (dance dance revolution)!

There was a whole section outside that I did not take pictures of, because at some point I ran out of picture-taking time when the kids started streaming in. I feel like I was seriously blessed by being able to take part in this awesome event. We found out this Sunday that over 300 people from the community came out, which means...next year is probably going to have to be even crazier >< Should we start preparing now guys??