Getting dirty on Mud Day in Detroit - in pictures

Children plunge into the 75ft by 150ft mud pit Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Here's mud in your eye. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/EPA

Lilli Alcala, age seven, of Redford, smiles while covered in mud Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Children take part in the wheelbarrow race Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Zach Miller, 10, really getting stuck in Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Children do the limbo Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Children run into the mud pit Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/EPA

Chelsea Crayne wears flowers Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

Zach Miller, 10, of Livonia lies almost buried in mud Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP