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Last night was the second of our annual fun nights. We used to have dances, but when Scott became principal he said we couldn’t have dances (I think he had a bad experience at a middle school dance), so now we have Fun Nights®. When we first started doing them I didn’t want to have to do very much work, so I asked the senior class sponsor if they wanted to do it as a fund raiser. So the seniors do most of the work, and we have a few teachers to chaperone. We run a dance with a couple of Macs running iTunes and a DJ mixer that I bought at a pawn shop. A dodge ball tournament (12 team double elimination this time) A game room in the library with board and card games. Snacks and drinks in the commons. A tattoo parlor (okay, it’s face painting, but don’t tell the kids). And this time we added an arcade. The arcade was a big hit. We projected Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution onto the big 12’x12′ screens. The dance, dodge ball and board games are “free”; everything else costs 1 of the 6 tickets that they get when they come in. 

Last night was way too much work for me, though. Both our boys’ and girls’ soccer teams had rain delays that moved their games to Friday. So I had to do more work than usual to set stuff up, but I hijacked the chess club and they did most of it. They were surprisingly efficient. I told them to do something that I thought would take 15 minutes and that I figured I’d have to have them redo once because they didn’t do it right, but no dice. They were faster and did a great job. But even with their help, I didn’t get to eat until 11:00 at night when I had a nutritious dinner of Jalapeño poppers, mozzarella sticks and wings.  A good time was had by all.