Heritage Park Patrol Picnic

Last week, I went as a parent volunteer with Adam to the Patrol picnic at Heritage Park. Wow! What an undertaking. First off there were about 120 school buses that showed up to drop off nearly 7000 kids. There were policemen everywhere directing the buses in a very orderly manner to the drop off points and also for pick up at the end of the day on a very precise schedule. The police helicopter came, the rides were running, the stores, including the ice cream shop were open, there was hotdogs, pop and chips for everyone, a snow cone station and the candy tent. Ohhh, the Candy Tent(s). Can you say sugar rush! Kids were lined up 5 or 6 deep on three sides of each of three tents where thousands of dollars were exchanged for dentist bills, I mean candy. It was unbelievable. I did manage to keep my group away from it till the very end. But the first thing we did do was stop for ice cream.

After that, we wandered around a bit, went and saw the blacksmith, the laundry, the bank, then we picked up our lunch and made our way to the bandstand area for the Appreciation Ceremonies, the whole reason we were there (not just for candy) where Buck Shot was the MC.






As were getting ready to watch the Appreciation Ceremonies and presentations there was a policeman, a real live policeman, up on stage. No this policeman is not directing traffic...






He's doing the YMCA

After the ceremony and awards, we were able to make one last stop at the candy tent and the kids thought that was a great way to end the day!