Dad volunteered to help out with the Thunderbirds Field Day on Wednesday June 6. The Thunderbirds are the "team" that Pete is on at Farmwell Middle School. There are three teams that comprise the 6th grade.
Upon arriving at school, Dad went to see Pete at his Spectrum party, but that party had dissolved and they were off cleaning their lockers. So Dad helped set up for serving pizza and chips to 120 students. After serving the pizza, Dad sat down with Pete, Kyle, Ryan, Paul, and Mikey for lunch on the grass:
After lunch, they gave out some awards. Pete received an award for the highest average in one of his classes (Language Arts, I think). After about a dozen awards, someone from the peanut gallery yelled out "Hey! How come the girls are winning all of the awards?" Then someone else said "Well, except for Pete!". Pete received a large Hershey bar along with his award:
Dad supervised the basketball event for a while. The event was basically about 40 boys playing unstructured basketball for an hour and a half. It took about 40 minutes before they had even decided on teams. One thing Dad discovered is that Paul and Mikey do not like to pass.
Pete's second event was Football. However, some of the kids were hot and tired so after about 15 minutes of the second event they decided to move everything inside. Here is Pete waiting for the movie to start (behind Mrs. Ackerman):
The next volunteer activity was handing out leftover chips to 120 people crammed into Mrs. Morrison's room to watch "A Bug's Life":
Dad needed to leave so he could get over to Sam's school by 2:45 to run the one mile fun run with Sam. On the way out of the building, he saw Pete's name on the Wall of Fame for a 70+ GWAM score in keyboarding:
Dad ran the mile in 8:03 and Sam ran it in 8:39. They were together for most of the race, but Dad went ahead when Sam stopped at the water station near the end. They will try to lower their time next year. Sam said if he gets his time under 7:00, then the following year he will run the 5K.
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