I have been attending the Leadership meetings that are held Mondays at the end of the month at the bowling alley in Yelm. We have relay rallies every first Monday of the month at the bar and grill by the golf course in Yelm, everyone who wants to attend can come to those. We were at the Christmas in the Park parade and had a booth set up at the event at the park. That pretty much sums up my involvement so far.
February is basically when we kick started our 2017 season. In fact, our event was called the SE Thurston County Relay for Life Kick Off. I heard last year not a lot of people came because there was a horrible accident on I-5 that shuttled people around through Hwy 7 and 507 to avoid it. It took people a long time to get through and made people really late getting to the event. The event was community supported through fundraisers and donations. NW Chevrolet in McKenna donated the space for our event, UpTown Lounge supplied the food and beverages and our county supplied the entertainment and prizes. We were hoping to have a lot of people show up and find out what we were all about and possibly register a team to walk around the track this upcoming August. I was excited to see how this event went down since this was my first one.
I got there around 4:00 and helped our volunteers set up. We got it thrown up really fast...I mean, I hardly had to do anything we had so many helpers. I walked around and took pictures of our team setting up the photo booth, our DJ, the food, Plinko, bra pong and the registration/information tables.
Our decorations were pretty cool too. Since our theme is Dr. Seuss someone had the brilliant idea of taking pool noodles and adding tissue paper to the end of it to make it look like trees from the book series. We had a Grinch cutout and one of our own dressed up as the Cat in the Hat.
I went live with Nichole while we were setting things up. She expressed interest in doing it during the event.
It began at 6 and we had quite a few people show up. I ate some food before it got too busy and before the kick off ceremony started. Ben and I got in line for some shrimp cocktail (I'm not a fan of shrimp so I skipped it), pulled pork sliders, raspberry vinaigrette salad and cheesecake with raspberry drizzle were on the menu for tonight. It was pretty tasty. We sat near the Plinko board and watched mom give out prizes and sign their passports. If they got all of their spaces blacked out they went into a drawing for the end of the event for a prize.
Around 7 I remembered that I had to go live on Facebook to film the event for the people who couldn't make it to the kick off. At one point I had four people watching it live. I received a few comments and a couple of shares. It was kinda cool going live. The only hard thing about it was holding it up for almost 30 minutes. Nichole wrapped it up and thanked everyone for coming.
We spent about a half hour cleaning everything up and put into various vehicles to be taken back to where we borrowed it from. I was amazed we got everything done that fast. We helped mom put the Plinko board into her car. From there, Ben and I headed to Bonney Lake for the weekend.
We rolled in around 9ish. We stopped at Walmart quickly to pick up some popcorn and drinks. We got to the house and unloaded our stuff into the room downstairs. Ben started a movie, The Avengers: Civil War and I made popcorn on the stove. Trish gave me a pot with a lid and it had a hole in it. It made for an interesting experience trying to keep the popcorn in the pot until it was done.
There was a lot of laughing and carrying on. We ate the popcorn, internetted and watched the movie. We talked a little bit to Brad and Amy. I got tired so we went to bed around 1ish.
Next Adventure: Geocaching in Bonney Lake and Iron Chef
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