Fun Day @ JFKS 2018

Fun Day really was FUN. Everyone was right.  It was much MUCH better than Fun Run.  Unbeknownst to us until just a couple days before, Benjamin's Lacrosse team was set to have a game, thankfully at JFK, the morning of Fun Day.  Marty, Josie and I all had quite full schedules that day as we were each assigned to an area to help set up, man all day and then help clean up.  Josie was actually set to be at about 4 or 5 places throughout the day.  Incredible that she was able to keep it all straight.

So at 8am Benjamin and I set off to get him to the Lacrosse game.  I loaded my bike basket with everything we ALL needed for a long day at school. 
Benjamin's Lacrosse team is mostly older

kids.  The 16 year old team nor the 12 year old team at JFK have enough players so they pull the 8 year olds up to play in games.  The size difference is quite comical.  The other

teams are mostly 12-16 year olds so our poor little 8 year olds look like babies!  But they played and lost but he had fun.  Benjamin is number 5 by the way.
Marty and I would take breaks from what we were doing to run over to catch a few minutes of game play. 
My friend, Fionnuala, brought along a lot of Mexican themed decorations so we set in decorating our booth and prepping the margaritas. Our booth was right in the thick of things and facing the stage which made it all the more fun.

After Benjamin's lacrosse game he came over to help.  I thought, well, OK, you can take money and make change.  He really wanted to make the drinks.  I didn't think this would fly.  I mean, he is 8 years old.  In the states there wouldn't even be alcohol on school grounds let alone an 8 year old serving it.  But Fionnuala said, "Ah, why don't you let him" So, with her approval - I still don't full know what is accepted here, I gave in and he had the BEST day serving up drinks.  He would ask the customers "with or without salt?"  if they said with he would take a slice of lime and rub it around the rim of the glass and then dip it into a dish of salt.  Then put the cup under the slushy machine to dispense the margarita.  He had it down to a science and happily served drinks all day.  He took breaks here and there to go buy food or play various games at the other booths. 

Josie came by a few times to get money and check in.  The kids together took our winning raffle tickets to claim their prizes.  We ended up with the board game "Settlers of Catan"  all in German and we have never played in English so we are still trying to figure out the rules.  We also got a desk organizer, a ball point pen, a sketching notebook and a gift certificate for brunch for 2 adults a nice hotel in Berlin.  Overall, not too shabby for our 30 Euro worth of raffle ticket purchases.

I snapped a shot of
Josie while she was signing
with her choir on Fun Day

Marty manned the stage all day announcing various musical talents.  Some of the bands - mostly parents of kids who attend the school- were fabulous.  When there wasn't a bad, Marty played music from his specially created JFKS FUN DAY music mix. 
Everyone seemed to have had a really great time and even though this wasn't the schools biggest fundraiser it still brought in over 10K Euro for the school.  Not too bad for something that is fun for the whole community. 
They have already tried to book Marty for Fun Day 2020.  Will be interesting to see if we are still here then!!