My friend mans the booth to open the festival.
Enjoyable things about the small town festival I worked at Saturday
1. It was a lovely early fall day. (A little chilly in the morning, perfect temps and sunshine in the afternoon)
2. Funnel cakes were there as well as things on sticks, yum!
3. The kids had fun doing things like this:
4. We got the word out about upcoming church events
5. Made a lot of kids happy with various balloon animals and hats
Not so enjoyable things at the small town festival
1. I made so many balloon animals my hands stopped working about 2 pm.
2. Most people did not donate any money to us for the above balloon animals (Which we were doing for free and to be nice, but still I expected most people to just donate a dollar or so).
3. There were lots of small giveaways at this festival like pencils, candy, even a few free shirts. So you know everyone from any where close came, especially those who do not join society very often. I know, I know, God loves them (I wish I had some pictures of some of the people I saw. I really thought more women knew about bras. I also didn’t know a woman could be so hairy).
4. My pockets came home empty (After paying for kids and husbands to eat as well as kids to bounce around, slide, and play games it was an expensive afternoon).
5. Our booth was very close to the stage area. Evidently they let any one sing, so there was a very wide range of talent. From nice pleasant voices to cats dying, we had it all.
6. We were trying to take orders for our yearly fresh Christmas tree and wreaths sales and no one really seemed interested. Some were really quite rude about it. I didn’t know fresh greenery could produce such feelings in people.
Overall this festival goes under the Cat-egory of:
Making me very tired, sun burned, and poor, but still coming away as it being a positive experience.
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