The last day of the Library's Summer Reading Program. After sitting quietly while a book was read to them, the children and parents all went outside for a free picnic along w/ balloon animals, giant bubbles, a bouncy something or other, etc. All of the children's list of books that they read should have been turned in by Wednesday night but the librarian warned me there would probably be some last minute additions and how to handle them. I only had one last minute addition - a little girl w/ a list of 80 books. I let the program coordinator know about it so she could adjust her list of winners. At 6:00 the kids and their parents filed back inside the library and the coordinator started going down the list of winners starting w/ the biggest winners first. Every participant came away w/ some kind of prize. The last group she announced were the adults. Not many adults participated. I'd managed to read 5 books in the two months the program ran. Good for me but I wasn't the big winner for my category. I did get a prize of two tickets to the local theater - still a very nice gift. After all the prizes were given out and the parents and children started to disperse, the coordinator came over w/ a metal tumbler for me as a thank-you for being a volunteer during the Summer Reading Program. I didn't look inside the cup until I got home. Stuck in there were small gift certificates to Gateway Gourmet, McD's, and Kwik Trip. Competition is the spice of life but, in the Summer Reading Program, I think it's OK that everyone left feeling like a winner.
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