Tri-Kathalon!

Saturday Nicole and I participated in our very first Circle K Event! It was called the Tri-Kathalon! We would be working with all age groups of the Kiwanis family to make Boo-Boo Bunnies for local elementary school, clean up a local bird sanctuary, and make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Mary Brennan INN. Unfortunately Nicole and I could only participate in the first two events, since she had to leave early to meet her family for homecoming, so for us it was more like a Di-Kathalon!

When we first got there no one wanted to sit with Nicole and me. We even had two high school kids come up to us and ask us if anyone was sitting across from us. When we told them "No", the didn't sit with us like we thought they would, they stole the chairs and took them to another table, lol. Eventually they split everyone up into teams, and Nicole and I were separated.

We then had to come up with a team name. At first we had only two young girls with us, and they were very shy and upset that they weren't sitting with all of their friends. So I asked one of them what her favorite animal was, and the other what her favorite color was. This left us with a team name of "Blue Monkeys", when our team grew to more people of all ages, they seemed fine with it, so we kept it. The girls them came up with a simple cheer that they presented to the whole crowd. It was very cute.

Our first task was to create a "Pillow Hug", which means we basically had to decorate a pillow case with a patriotic theme to give to a Veteran's Shelter. This little girl wanted to draw a horse on it. I figured it would probably come out looking like a little girl drew it, looking more like a dog than a horse, but boy was I wrong!

Look how cute!!!!!! Although why we were using washable markers on pillow cases I don't know. Am I missing something as far as what these pillows will be used for?

Then we had to make Boo-Boo Bunnies out of wash-cloths. You put a plastic ice cube in them and use them as ice packs.

Our team made 70 Bunnies. If it were up to me I would have bought different color wash cloths, but perhaps the budget didn't allow for that.

Next we caravanned to the bird sanctuary, which resulted in a quick left on a yellow for us, and a totally illegal left on red for the guy driving behind us. We got our gloves on and were ready to clean up some trash!!!

Honestly this picture doesn't do the disaster justice. The bird sanctuary is basically 7 acres of land that no one can build on or trespass on, that has certain trees which attract birds, as well as a body of water. Unfortunately rain brings in tons of trash. In one particular area (pictured) you had to duck through a mess of trees to get to an opening where literately the entire ground was covered in bottles and other trash. I heard "ew" screamed more times by the Elementary, Middle, and High School girls that day than I may ever hear for the rest of my life. The little jumping spiders didn't help.

Nicole and I felt disgusting and tired after this activity...so what did we do?

We went to Ralph's Famous Italian Ices for some Cream Ices, my very first. SO GOOD! And worth it, especially after picking up trash!

I went home and took a nice long shower, and then a nap. I had had to wake up at 7:00am, and let us face it, I'm just not used to waking up before 8:30am anymore.