Decorative Painting for…Nerf Guns?

It all started with the announcement that Club Kairos would be having a Wild West theme with a twist this year. What is Club Kairos? Well, several years ago, my church, Fellowship of Faith, started doing themed dinners for Valentine’s Day weekend. The first year I started going, it was a ’50′s diner theme. The year after that, it was a murder mystery theater. They were a fun way for families at the church to have a “date night” (even though kids were often involved). Eventually this morphed into Club Kairos (“kairos” being Greek for “the right moment”), with the idea that each year would have a different theme based on a period in history. Like I said, this year’s Club Kairos was Wild West. Wait, what about “the twist” I mentioned earlier? Well, after the success of the movie “Cowboys & Aliens”, we decided that maybe we should have some extraterrestrials show up to “take back their time-travelling technology”. So guests were encouraged to dress up either as cowboys or as aliens. I thoroughly enjoy dressing up for Halloween and plays/films when I can, so I was excited about it. I took inspiration from actor Daniel Craig’s character in “Cowboys & Aliens”, who wakes up in the desert with a bizarre alien cuff on his wrist that turns out to be a weapon. I created the costume of an “alien bounty hunter”, a cowboy who ran afoul with the extraterrestrials and stole a futuristic weapon that he uses to track down the alien menace. Ok, ok, most people didn’t go this far with their costumes – most just showed up in a plaid shirt and a cowboy hat. But I tend to go over the top on these sorts of things. Ask Patty or Jess.

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