On Thursday June 4th 2015, I had a blast! It was (finally) the day of the June Family Picnic! I mentioned the June Family Picnic in my LBP’S Got Talent article but I’ll elaborate on it a little bit more for you!
On Thursday June 4th 2015, there was a buzz in the air as kids got ready for their morning classes. It was an ordinary day really, except for the fact that the annual June Family Picnic would be starting just a few hours later. As the bell rang to signal the end of the day, kids got their bags and streamed out the doors, finalizing plans of where they would meet their friends and what rides they would go on first. JFP Fever had spread.
Our annual June Family Picnic started Thursday evening at 5:30 and ended at 8:30 as it has every year. The sky was blue and the sun was high, but the memory of the rained-out picnic of 2014 still lingered in people’s minds. When I got to the picnic, I met up with my friends and bought my passport. You may be wondering why on earth I would need a passport if I wasn’t going out of the country but secretly I was…
Just Kidding! A passport is our version of an admission ticket except you pay 10$ and you get a card with four tickets attached to it, (it was called a passport because the picnic that inspired it had an around-the-world theme)you get a meal ticket (Hot dog or hamburger), a drink ticket (No Alcohol!), an ice cream tickets and my favourite… a Photo Booth ticket! I was looking forward to the Photo Booth the whole picnic but we waited until near the end to go because the line had been waaay to long.
There were so many different attractions to see and go on! There was a bouncy castle, a surfing bouncy mountain, a 4-seater-spinny-bicycle-chair thing that was actually really cool, tug of war, three-legged and potato sack races, balloon pop (You put water balloon over someone’s head and try to hit the bulls-eye so that it pops and the other person gets soaked) and more! There was also… Laser Tag!!! And a Cream Pie toss! People bought tickets at one dollar each and they were entered in a raffle to see who would get to throw a cream pie at the faces of some daring teachers and our principal!
The thing I loved about our picnic was that it was for the WHOLE family!! Kids, young and old came with their parents and grand-parents and friends. We even saw old LBP students in high school who came and volunteered to help run the picnic! The best thing was that it was a P.A Day the next day!
My picnic was a lot of fun! What does your school do to celebrate the last day of school?
Serena Wambura.