Hannah's Socks Picnic and the sweet sound of Bacon

I spent the day volunteering at the Hannah's Socks Charity Picnic that was held in Perrysburg today. Hannah's mother is my friend Lindsay's aunt, so I went along with she and Danielle. The event was being held from 2p-8p and involved music, craft activities, games, raffles, and food. I was part of the "Games Committee" and started the day off by running The Color Wheel game.

Libby showed up early in the afternoon, and was really the only one to have any success at guessing which colors the wheel would land on. While she couldn't have any "awesome" prizes for herself, she did use her (evil, er, good) powers to help a few children take home some plastic stuff.

Tickets were sold for all the games, food, and drawings and dozens of people cycled through the area throughout the afternoon. I think some people were suspecting a much larger turn out but I think at the end of the day everyone involved was pleased with the outcome.

Obviously as a charity event the purpose was to raise money for a good cause. There were certain details - prizes for games, food and beverage costs, and quality control - that could have been better attended to, but with better management I would suspect next year's event to be even more successful. I think later Lindsay will probably hear at some point whether the organization came out ahead. All in all it's a good cause, and I hope that regardless of the few stressful situations had by people here and here that the effort by all was well worth it.

The girls were able to get Chipotle to donate food for the volunteers that worked throughout the day. They gave us two huge boxes of corn chips and 200 half-portioned burritos: 80 steak, 80 chicken, and 40 vegetarian. That's a LOT of burritos.

Danielle's brother, Aloysius (really his name is Peter), was visiting Toledo from Chicago. So he got dropped off at the picnic by one of his friends and spent the remainder of the afternoon looking "morose" and following Danielle around not unlike a lost puppy.

After the picnic ended and we helped to clean everything up and deliver things back to Lindsay's parents' house, we came back to L&D's new apartment and had a couple drinks - and a few burritos, seeing as there were over half of them left over and we smuggled them into the Katamari) and played Pop-5. As the night progressed Peter was far more entertaining, giving clues for the song "Bette Davis Eyes" in the form of "Crocker" and "vision." I made a poor E.T. sculpture out of purple clay, and Lindsay and I were astonished at the Krivas Telepathy Gene, helping the brother-and-sister team win the game. Seriously, "ba-con" does have a musical equivalent.