Frost Road Country Fair

This weekend was very busy for us and in some ways it started over a month ago. Now that Callie is going to school we've got to start doing the parenting participation thing. The extra dynamic for us is that Callie goes to the same school where Kerry teaches. Kerry volunteered us to help organize the Frost Road Country Fair. My role ended up being a carpentry role which suits me fine. Rona donated some plywood and the organizers wanted me to cut some holes in it so that they could make one of those picture walls where yous stick your head through. I think they were expecting it to just be a few cuts however Rona only donated 1/4 inch plywood which wasn't even strong enough to stand up without bending. 

I ended up sandwiching two layers together with a core of random strips of 2x4. I also added a plywood base and bolted it all together. Total cost was about $30.00 and I ended up clearing a lot of scrap wood out of the shop. I didn't do the painting but they turned out really well. Callie's bright idea was to take her toy horse and get a picture with her head in the horse and the horses head in the cowboy.

The fair was a lot of fun and luckily it ended up being outside. Around 3:15 in the afternoon the power went out to the entire neighborhood due to a vehicle accident. It didn't come back on until 10 minutes before the fair ended. Callie and Carter got their first pony ride. Carter still remembers his ponies name. Sabrina. The fair had all sorts of fun for the kids including bouncy castles, face painting, games, a cake walking contest and last but not least a pie eating contest.

This is where the odd dynamic of being a parent and a teacher comes in. Kerry was one of the organizers and was in charge of organizing the pie eating contest. This is difficult to do without participating yourself. There were a total of eight teachers and they sold tickets so that people could guess who they thought was going to win. Kerry is still coming down from the sugar high.

I'm not sure how much money they raised but they ended up running out of tickets. Unfortunately they couldn't photo copy more due to the power outage so they had to resort to making them by hand. I'm not sure what next years theme will be but if it's not cowboy themed I guess we'll have to repaint the picture wall.