Members of our Activity set up the tables, chairs and decorated for 105 people. We were out of town, so it was wonderful to come home and see everything set up and ready to go. What great people we have to work with!
Each table chose a waiter to serve their meal, and we got 105 people quickly served; then about another 20 came and there was no place to sit. We scrunched and squoze and finally got everyone fed. The ones who came a hr. late had slim pickings, however.
We had lots of less-active members come, plus several non-member families, so it was a great fellowshipping activity.
We cut all the deserts up before dinner, then locked them in the nursery! While Corey was telling his Vegan experience as a park worker, we had the teens serve the tables, so we didn't have a madhouse. That worked really well, and we had good help serving, both in the kitchen, and by the waiters and youth!
Elders Van Orden and Clark helped the Dale children with their craft activity, which we provided to help keep the kids from running around.
We played several games after the meal: I'm Thankful list, where each of the 13 tables had to list as many things as possible starting with a certain letter of the alphabet; human scavenger hunt; guessing games (what is the elders combined weight!), how many kids were sitting when the blessing is said; etc. Then we called President White up, and then had 4 different table representatives at a time, come up and try to guess interesting things about him. It was very fun, and informative.
We gave out lots of prizes. Once we finished everyone pitched in and helped clean up for Sunday the next day.
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