"Ten FREE tickets, for your Time..."

That is the famous phrase that you know you will never fall for. Yeah, 10 FREE tickets sounded great to me, until I arrived to help at this year's Fall Carnival for the elementary school.

Kristin and I decided this year to "be involved" so we both joined the PTA...maybe that was the first mistake!! Second, I got lured into volunteering for the fall carnival, but hey "10 FREE tickets" sounded alright to me. Well, the biggest problem was arriving 5 minutes after 5PM to man my booth...the COTTON CANDY table!! Thank goodness to good friends that made my night enjoyable. Kristin and Kim saved me a spot right with them...little did we know that our "ONE hour" service would soon turn into FOUR, yes you read that right...F-O-U-R!!!


So we got a little system down with Kim and I making the cotton candy and Kristin bagging the cotton candy + taking tickets + watching Jonah + somehow managing to sneak in making and bagging the popcorn (wonder woman)!! However, during our "ONE Hour" of fun it quickly turned into a huge sticky mess. Our little machines didn't stop (except for the few times to clean them). And the whole time I kept wondering where our replacements after ONE hour were at...I decided that as everyone saw how fun it actually was they decided that being covered from ear to ear and head down to knees wouldn't be so much fun at the end of the night to clean up...well it wasn't!!

Kim and I looked like we were growing sugar beards and cobweb hair, our eyelids kept sticking shut and yes our arms looked like we were growing blue and pink mold up them both, but we sure were "SWEET"!!

So many people kept commenting on how great we looked all covered with cotton candy, we even had several people taking our pictures with their cell phones. That is when I decided to get our camera from the car...McKay did a great job taking several shots of the "Cotton Candy Queens"...I wish we would have taken a picture of the line of people waiting for the famous treat...Next year you will NOT see me anywhere near that table even if "Ten FREE tickets for your time" is announced. Maybe a good massage, facial and pedicure would do the trick, but as for next year we will be standing in lines with our kids!! Thanks Kim and Kristin for making light of the night, and for 'sticking' it out together...that's what true friends are!!