This is all made possible by donations from people and companies in the community, and this year I got to organize the event. It ended up being a lot of fun, despite being the hottest day of the year so far (35 degrees!)
We beat the heat with lots of cool water (which the kids got to drink from fancy reusable bottles, c/o Hamilton Water), freezies, and this cool new contraption, built by our resident grand wizard of making things, Nancy!
We haven't really come up with a name for it yet....so for now we'll just call it the PVC pipe sprinkler waterfall run-through thingy. I found the idea on Pinterest, which came from Instructables.com, and Nancy used her magic ways to make it happen. Everyone loved running through the water to cool down.
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| instructables.com |
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| Puppet show sponsored by the Water Treatment Plant will obviously have lots of poop jokes |
Train rides from the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers:
Fun activities hosted by staff from Battlefield House Museum and Park, and Westfield Heritage Village:
A delicious, halal-hotdog lunch, cooked up by the lovely ladies of CUPE Local 5167:
Chalk and bubbles just for kicks:
A "Trip of the Drip" relay race:
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| Julia explaining how Steam Engines work |
Really, really, a fun day - I hope for all the kids, as well as for me. Thanks to all of our awesome sponsors and partners, and to Caillin Kowalczyk who took all these lovely pictures!
