Today was the 2nd anual Floatapalooza.. A fund raising event for the Burton Chill program  that gets kids who can’t  usually get to the maountian up on a snowboard.   the event was organized by our freinds mike.. and cara…

 

 

this years planning was so good. We let everyone use our yard for prep and filling up the floats and hanging out until time to launch. It was so grea.t. at one poitn tehre were more than 200 folks in our yard getting ready to float down the winooski

 

they had a dj to keep things lively

 

at noon mike organized everyone and they started takign their floats down to the river. 

 

mike even presented us with our own flat for helping. that was s uch a nice thing to do !!!!.. we were happy to help !

here you can see folks loading up

 

and our neighbors on the bridge watching the craziness. 

 

diane an i took turns on the foat and an intertube. it was so fun doign this together !

 

the ride down took more than 3 hours… folsk were hanging out, talking, drinking beer.. it was very chill  and fun !

 

at Cara.. or was it Pratts.. everyone got out and the guys fed everyone .. hotdogs and water. It was so nice of them to do that !\

 

there was even a band.. the tnederbellies.. an acustic bluegrass/blues/americana band. they were SO excellent !

 

 

i made a potatoe chip sandwich 

 

thne back int he water for the next 2/3 of the float

 

there’s gabe !

 

and Tom

 

the band loaded into to canoes and played the rest of the trip. it was so great having live music in the river !

 

we ran into our good freind Nick !

2/3 the way we all got of at ‘shotgun island’.. and took pictures.. and chugged beer.. very mature 🙂

 

about that time I ran out of phone batteries.. we did the rest of the float and pulled out at richmond green.

 

there were schoolbuses there ready to take everyone back to cara’s for an afterparty..catered by moe’s

 

 

 

what a great event.. thansk to Mike and Cara and everyone else for all the work they put in to make this a really magical day !

 

 

ok.. i cant keep my eyes open any more.. gotta sleep !. More tomorrow !

nite all, nite sam

-me