Sunday, July 26, 2009

Burnside Rugby Gala Day

Today our rugby club had a Gala Day to gather our rugby community together for a fun day out and raising some funds for our club.

I organised our team to bring bags of jaffas and a donation of money. I put all the jaffas in a jar and we charged $1 to guess the total. There were 1498 in the jar and a young girl guessed within 2 of that total! I changed all the money collected into 10cent coins and Al built this tower which we filled with the coins and people paid $1 to guess this total. It was a lot of fun for the participants.























This is a giant inflatable obstacle slide which kids paid to enjoy, it proved to be very much fun!

















This is the end of the line for the Sheep racing, or "The Baa Blacks!" You purchased a sheep number for $2. The sheep raced along a purpose built 'pen', encouraged along by the sheep dog, they jumped over hurdles and the first one over the finish line netted the better $5. They changed the jerseys after each run to make it fairer. What a lot of fun that was! None of my sheep came in but Toby had 1 bet and won $5, tin bum!


















Each team was encouraged to have a stall, this team made and sold toffee apples and sweets.


















And there was a book stall and garage sale items.


















All in all a lot of fun was had on a beautiful Sunday and much needed funds were injected into our club.

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