I have quickly come to the conclusion that Catholic parish fundraisers seem to be the same all over the world. The Motupe parish held theirs last Sunday and there was a remarkable similarity between our Catholic primary schools White Elephant Sale back home.
There was the usual range of stalls selling hot and cold food. The skittles and ‘knock em down’ games were popular. There was the torture chamber where you were marched off to, put in the stocks and had to wait until someone came up with an appropriate ransom. The new one for Marion and I was the guinea pig game. A circle of boxes was set up with prizes on the top of each one and if you held the ticket corresponding with the box the little devil went into you won that prize. The children thought it was great.The highlight for the crowd was undoubtedly the Bingo which went most of the day. You purchased as many Bingo cards as you liked when you arrived and you used the same cards all afternoon, each card was S/-2.00. As the day went on the prizes got bigger and so did the crowd. The final prize was S/-300.00, and that is big! The organisers hoped to make around S/-3,000.00 to help support all the Motupe parish programs.
The guinea pig 'hunt' was fun for all ages.
The favourite with the crowd is the bingo.
The crowd loved the torture chamber with the dunces chair, the stocks and the hangman's noose. As expected both Marion and I received the appropriate treatment much to the amusement of all the crowd.
Donna has decided that it may be time for them to leave because Trevor could not register even one tin at 'knock em down' stall!
