We paid the $45.65 to have them shipped to Dakar. Well they got here last week, so we thought we would give them to the kids at the Valentine's Day party, you know, for Christmas on St. Valentine's Day! Since there were several little things in each stocking I wrapped each one in a plastic Wal-Mart bag. (You would have to be a missionary to understand why we brought Wal-Mart bags to Senegal. Should I tell you that we save our Ziploc bags too?) The kids were thrilled with their St. Valentine's Stockings, but the best gift of all; the Wal-Mart bags. They wanted their pictures taken holding them and enjoyed pretending they were shopping at Wal-Mart. We had a good laugh and assumed, wrongly, that they had had their fun and we would never see the bags again.
Two days later they were still bringing their bags to school. After the party the boys went home and tied their Lego people to the bag handles, using the bags as parachutes. I can't believe how much fun they have been having with them. Now the other grades are going home telling their mothers they need plastic bags for their Lego people. Moral of the story, don't send toys--just Wal-Mart bags!
