Evan's school puts on a Halloween Carnival every year. This year, the carnival was to take place on Halloween day. However, due to a sad development, the carnival was postponed when a teacher at the school passed away unexpectedly and the funeral was scheduled for that Saturday.
The carnival was rescheduled for mid-November. Being new to the school and wanting to support its goings-on (and needing a plan for a gorgeous fall day), we schlepped up to the school at 11 a.m. for the event. It was fun. Not amusement park fun or even hiking in the mountains fun, but a fun enough way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday. We paid entirely too much money for some hand stamps that would enable the kids to use the jumpy thing and the giant slide and then paid some more money to buy some tickets so the kids could make a wheelbarrow planter (that was free to make at the Home Depot tent at the Candler Park Fall Fest a few weekends before).
The kids did very much enjoy making their wheelbarrows. Evan made his with daddy and Pressley made hers with one of the parent volunteers who had clearly never made anything as complicated as a wheelbarrow planter before. He totally practised his craft on hers, but she didn't care. They also enjoyed the jumpy thing and the slide for about 3-1/2 minutes before they decided they'd had enough (so, we paid a little over a dollar a minute for each child...). But the things they enjoyed the most were playing on the playground [free] and playing chess [also free].
But I'm glad we went and supported the school. I'm not even mad that we overpaid for everything that we did, because that money will surely enrich my children in some way that is related to their early education.
Here are the kids making their wheelbarrows:
Here is Corin teaching a gaggle of Evan's friends how to play chess. Well, just Evan and two friends, but I think we don't get to use the word gaggle nearly enough. There. I used it twice.
And one more of Lil' P playing on the playground.
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