Ambitions

I wonder!  Have we taken on too much? Will it all come together?  I think I asked the same questions this time last year. 

We are coming up on our annual walleye banquet.  Last year we moved to a new venue, the event center Mr M helped to build, and expanded our ticket sales to 400.  We were blown away be the response and easily soldout days before the banquet.  We added an all day sport/product show and had about 30 vendor tables, boats, cars and trucks.

This year was our year to host the state banquet in conjuntion with our local banquet, so we have expanded again.  We decided to go upto 700 meal tickets, thinking that about 100 extra people from around the state would be attending this year.  Well the response has been fabulous.  Two weeks out and we have only about 75 tickets left.  Did I just say dinner for 700!?!  I hope our caterer is ready for this. (I’m sure it will be fine).

We have had to cut off selling anymore vendor tables as the event center is full!  We are trying to set agenda’s, organize meals, games, drawings, music, tables & chairs.  We collect and/or buy prizes to raffle, give away, or win.  So that has been very busy work.  We have so much stuff that the trailer we purchased with banquet proceeds last year is about to burst.  And, we have to have this all handed out between 6:00 and 9:00 plus attend to all the boring business details.  Our State president is retiring so a new president will be sworn in.  Oh, and did I mention this the 25th anniversary of Walleyes unlimited in MT.  Yea, and it all started right here.  So we have invited the remaining original charter members to be our guests. 

If I sound a bit schitzo, well, try talking to me in about 2 weeks. 

Oh, yeah and it is also prom that day.  JD has been asked to go.  Her first prom.  Mr M and DJ will be gone to hockey tournament.  I need help!  No, now it will be just fine.  Take a break from the sport show about 2:00, help JD get ready.  Take her to town, drop her at CH’s (maybe, RH just had open heart surgery, we will have to see how he is doing), have date meet her there.  Go back to banquet, run up to school to watch grandmarch, go back to banquet, stop along the way and find oxygen bottle.  Yeah that will work, don’t ya think?