One More Party

Like most work places we have a staff Christmas party, it is also an end of the school year party. In the past we have had parties in private homes, in restaurants, and hotels but this year was going to be different. We were going to have it in the new school hall with caterers. Unfortunately, the hall wasn't finished by the completion date (typical of a govt. organisation). So with short notice the social committee had to come up with another venue. The members decided to have it in the school playground...??? that's something different. Anyway it turned out quite a lot of fun. We could socialise better than in a restaurant as you could move about more easily to meet others.

It was a balmy summer night, so sitting outside was pleasant. School tables and chairs were spread out in the gazebo area near the tuck shop. The school principal is giving me a wave. The social club organised hilarious games for those who wanted to join in the fun. We had to tear a Christmas tree from paper behind our backs. We had to draw a Christmas picture with our eyes closed. We were told what and where to draw the items. These masterpieces were so funny to look at later.

The funniest game of all was where a team of 4 had to blow up 8 balloons push them into the legs of pantyhose.................

........Then put it on someone's head.......

....and they had to be the first to stand on a chair and sing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".....

...... Graham's team won and Nell's came second.....

Everyone had lots of fun.

In another game teams were in a relay. They had to wear oven mitts and undo a chocolate wrapper and feed it to the next team member and pass the mitts to them........

..and they had to run to the table and undo the next chocolate wrapper with the mitts on while eating the chocolate they were fed. The principal on the left joined in too. So we had lots of fun without a proper venue. We were lucky there were no summer storms that night.