The Pinata That Wouldn't Die

Let me begin by telling you about the Fiesta Flambeau Parade last night (saturday night). Mark signed us up to volunteer as ushers at the seats that Temple Beth-El sells. I thought that maybe the temple has 30 or 50 seats. Oh No. We have about 1000 seats. The job of ushering was actually really easy and the parade itself was alot of fun. Neither of us has ever been to the Flambeau in all our years living here.

About 60 seconds after the final float went by, it started to rain. Just a light drizzle at first but then it got pretty heavy. Just our luck, we left the umbrellas in the car which was actually only 2 blocks away since we had a free parking pass (I will tell you why NOT to park so close in a minute), but by the time I ran to the car I was soaking wet. As soon as I got back to where Mark was, it stopped raining. So there we are, soaking wet at 10pm on a Saturday night and I find out that WE have to help fold up the chairs and stack them up. Did I mention there are 1000 chairs??

So, the chairs get stacked up and we make it back to the car at about 10:45pm. There is complete gridlock on the streets around the parade route. Not one single car left the parking lot until 11pm and we didn't make it home until after midnight. I'm not really complaining because we WERE doing a mitzvah by volunteering for the temple, but I usually go to bed at 10 and i'm not used to being up so late, especially after working all day at the salon.

Flash forward to today (Sunday).

We bought a pinata because, since he grew up in Hawaii, Mark never had one at any of his birthday parties. We invited the little girls next door to come over and hit the pinata with us. I think we invited them mainly so we wouldn't look so absurd to passing motorists. Two grown men hitting a pinata.

We filled the Pinata with candy and jars of Play-Doh and took turns hitting it.

This pinata must have been built to withstand a wrecking ball because it just wouldn't break open.

FINALLY we broke it open and the girls had a great time. So did Mark. Here's some video =)




I hope everyone is doing great.