We had a special day as a family and as a community on Saturday. We teamed up with Lily's school and the neighborhood around our house to clean up the 6th Ave Business District. We were assigned a 2 block radius and headed out wearing orange vests, gloves, (one size fit us all) and carrying garbage bags. The kids did so great for about the first 45 minutes. I guess it was a reasonable amount of time to expect of them, it was raining/hailing/snowing! Fussing about being wet, cold and tired, we rallied on and finshed our area and headed back to a neighborhood church for hot dogs and prizes ... I won a $20 gift card to a local record store!
After lunch and a visit from the Tacoma Fire Department, we headed out to be a part of the 6th ave shop hop. An event where you visit local business and receive stamps in your passport. It was really fun, we pretty much walked the whole ave, (I'm still sore!) and the kids had a blast getting stamps. We'll be eligible for prizes from that too, but we're still waiting to hear. We mostly just enjoyed talking with some business owners and seeing inside of some of the stores, we've never made it in to.
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3 comments:
You make me so jealous of your awesome little community over there in T-town!
OK, reading all this community stuff makes me want to move down there.
so glad you guys get to do stuff like this. :)
jess
That sounds so special! (Except for the rain/snow/hail part - alho i'd love to see a picture!) My grandkids are such Troopers!! You are really raising them right, by encouraging them to care about their community and that clean-up can be FUN! Kiss them for me and see you soon!
Love, Nana
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