today was our annual school faction carnival. our kids are in giles (red) named after ernest giles. all our school factions are named after early australian explorers (the others are forrest (green), eyre (blue) and gibson (yellow)) and funnily enough, he was the only one i hadn't heard of. maybe that was meant to be so i had to do a little research. in our 5 past years at the school giles has won 4 of the 5 carnivals, so we were certainly hoping for another. our hoping paid off and that's now 5/6. boom. no wonder the kids love being in giles, they always get to brag about their faction winning.
this year was a little crazy overall... when julia went off to nz, she had made sure that the date they returned would ensure that even if they had to quarantine, that they would be back in time for her to be there for carnival day. well. the world had other plans. after a covid outbreak in nz just days before they were meant to fly home, they've been unable to get back into australia, let alone into western australia and are still there. so it was all up to chantelle and her assistants - me and iris. she carefully chose a menu to make it all work, including food for parents and the day went off without a hitch. we even had doug (which would have been doug and hayden...) out the back of the canteen cooking sausages to make hotdogs all day - and we sold nearly every single one! what a trooper he was!
it was so fun and well thought out, even down to having jelly and mini m&ms's available in all the faction colours - plus she decorated the canteen in all the colours too!
the kids were so chuffed... she really got that one right!
go giles!
and because her hair is of course not red enough, here we are spraying it bright red year after year.
and seeing as this kid loves red, he's stoked to pile it all on for carnival day. i especially love that he's wearing madeline's adult sized spiderman socks which covered his entire legs!
i managed to see joseph's race by an absolute fluke of luck as i ran out to check when he was up. he was stoked to takeout second place in his.
he's not the best runner so he was in the last division, making it easy to place.
proud as punch!
maddie is a pretty good runner, so gets placed in the high divisions, which annoys her, because she never places - but still still ran well. she wasn't overly impressed to not place again this year, but there isn't much we can do about that. thankfully she still had a great day and they both loved seeing their faction take it home yet again. yay giles.
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