Chapter Three: Friday

That's right... serious me in charge :)

Eva going down the
slide in PlayScape

 

Friday was finally here and I knew we were going to be busy with a capital B.  I had all of my girls excused from school and we left from home just before eight to head to the hotel.  It seemed that everyone was either in the lobby or eating breakfast.  I was starting to collect money for admissions to the Children's Museum when it seemed that I had a situation in place of "organized chaos".  We left out about five minutes late getting there but all was good.  When we arrived everyone's attention was on Bumblebee, the largest Transformer in Indiana.  I got all the tickets taken care of and released everyone to enjoy the museum.  They played with dinosaurs, went down slides, rode a carrousel, served ice cream, learned about Ryan White and Ruby Bridges, visited Egypt, Looked at beautiful glass sculpture within the middle of the museum, learned about a humongous water clock, made boats, played in water, became a temporary archeologist, ate a pretty decent but expensive lunch, and then did it again.  It was extremely gratifying to see so many C17 kids enjoying every minute.  We left the museum to head home for a much needed nap for Eva and was going to meet up with everyone at Hollyhock Hill for dinner.

Eva and Austin, she did not want to sit
with her mom or dad, just took the
Needham's space :)

She obviously
loves the camera

Scott

We arrived for our six o'clock, dinner.  I walked into the restaurant and Dean met me at the doorway.  He said they were all ready for us.  I looked around at the two adjoining rooms and saw six very long banquet tables and then just up two stairs into another room was two more long tables set.  I was very surprised and asked him if he had to many place settings.  He said "No, you said 105 guests".  Then, it hit me, like a brick.  Looking at all these chairs, folded napkins, shiny flatware, all of these families were here and there were so many!  It was now becoming reality.  I went back outside and took a deep breath and stood there at the entrance, welcoming everyone again.    Fried chicken, green beans, potatoes, salad, cottage cheese, freshly squeezed tomato juice, and of course dessert joined with over one hundred C17 families: Priceless.   After our dinner was just about over, I made a few announcements for tomorrow.  I also introduced UuBee (aka Uncle Brian) to everyone in regards to the survey.  Then somebody (JB) threw in his two sense to give an 'ataboy to me for all the work.  It was surely paying off and will only be the icing on the cake tomorrow, at the largest, 4th Annual, C17 Gathering.
To Be Continued...