Fancy Dress Party in Jungle - Tena - TravBuddy

Twas my amazing brain that formulated the idea of a fancy dress party, and what a party it was, I do love a bit of costume. On the day of the party, fully loaded with all the kitty money, Kate and myself went to Tena to buy snacks, supplies, party decorations and a piñata, claro! We bought loads of ham, sausages, bread, tuna, mayonnaise, cheese, crisps, the ingredients for guacamole and two rather large bottles of Cristal Limon. Then we returned to Jatun Sacha to make all the lovely culinary delights! It was not just the Greenforcians who helped with the party, other volunteers from Jatun Sacha, namely Katrina who made ham sandwiches and Mark who opened a tin of tuna, also lent a hand. All the food was prepared by about 5 o’clock and was put in the fridge for munching later.

Katie and myself shimmied on down to the bar to blow up balloons and make the bar look ready for a fiesta. What was intended to be a quick operation was promptly interrupted by the arrival of the children of the community. The children played with the balloons then helped us tie string on the balloons, like the little monkeys they are they were climbing around the bar hanging the balloons in exceedingly exciting places!

The party started at 7.30 and everybody helped by taking a tray of food down, muchas gracias. The assortment of costumes was amazingly overwhelming, especially considering we were in the jungle with little resources. Such costumes included a geisha, bride, doctor, centurion, cowgirl, Harry Potter, native Amazonians, trees, cats, drag and much more! The effort put in was really special, I was particularly touched by Pete who decided to go as… Me! Although he did seem to like the breasts a bit too much…

The food vanished in about 10 minutes and the drinking and frolicking commenced! I hope I speak for everybody when I say I had an awesome final night in the Amazon. The children at the fiesta were al very excited about the Sponge Bob Square Pants piñata that I bought, and after suspending it from the ceiling, carefully blind folding the first child the little bugger hit it first time! Maybe he had been practicing…

The party wrapped up at about 1.30am, but Kate, Ben, Claire and Andrew stayed up all night and at 5.30 went back down to the bar to clear up! Pure stamina... respect to you guys… respect.

Love Sammie Jo x x x