Sunday, September 10, 2006

Jesters

Today was once again Jester's motorcycle club annual Jester's Cares For Kids Fair. I took Pui and Pot and we had a great time.

Bob had set up a stand for his restaurant, and was doing a brisk business, being located right next door to the Jester's Beer Tent.

Steve was there with his boys, Kevin and Bobby, and Alan had his son, Jason along. Pot spent most of his time playing with them, and all 4 had a great time. There was an inflatable castle and a large slide that they all enjoyed. Pot also enjoyed the kiddie train and the little airplane ride.

Lots of the folks from TQ2 were there, including Ray, and we all sat around and drank margaritas, ate tacos and burgers and ribs, and watched the kids have fun.

Then, Pot surprised everyone by wanting to climb the rock tower... an "adult" ride. At first, the ride people wouldn't let him go up because he was too short. However, after the crowd died down a bit, we went back again to ask a second time and this time they let him go. They strapped him into a harness, gave him a helmet, and up he went. He was by far the smallest kid of the day to work his way up the thing, and Steve and Ray and I stayed at the bottom and cheered him on the whole way up.

(The fact that he looked down a couple of times with an "oh-shit" look, but kept on plugging away impressed all the adults.)

Anyway, there were hundreds, if not thousands of people there, and millions of baht were raised for local children's charities. Bob sold tons of burgers and margaritas, and everybody went home full and happy.

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