Makings from the Madhouse: My Little Happy Meal

Yesterday i woke up to see the rain pouring down and my heart fell, it was Fleetwood Carnival day and the kids had helped me make costumes so they could enter the fancy dress as a group had and the weather was not looking good. But one thing about kids is that when they are looking forward to something there is not usually anything that will put them off. I also had been really looking forward to .Rewind a week and our gala had finished, we got up on Sunday morning and we all felt a little flat, the running round and business of the last few.. days, weeks, months was gone and now i was at a loss. I had filed away all the paperwork from this year and turned a clean page in my note book with some ideas for next year and things that could be changed to make them run smoother. Last year our gala was just the start, as the kids were on the retinue and each week we were off here and there and i loved it. We had planned to go to some of the Galas anyway to support our retinues, so we decided to enter ourselves, well we have enough kids to make a nice little group! So Paul and i started thinking about what we could be, Abba, the Beatles and Gwen Stephany ? (Pauls idea!!!) all came up but a bit of googling later and we settled on a Happy Meal, and by the end of the day the first costume had been made, Paul joined in as well with the costume making.

This was the final dress rehearsal the night before

This was when we first started painting the box, after this it was carnage i don't think a single thing in the garden has suvived without red paint! Good job i put that old take out which i have been using recently for some of the messy crafts. Well not its red anyway

Milkshake Molly!

Mc Fries Alex

Happy Meal Box Ewan

Burger Fred

Fred wore his costume for most of the week, so its a bit worse for wear now.

This was before the judging, Molly thought the 1 was out place, but no it was our judging number, we just got there nice and early!

We did go on to win first prize, and they got medals each, which they are still wearing

This is the dome in the marine hall, its a really nice inside.

I did lots of shows here as a child and i caught a glance of back stage and it brought back a flood of memorys

Some of the amazing floats, that people had worked so hard on and they all braved the rain. Fleetwood has so much community spirit, the carnival always gets more entrants than any of the other galas in the area, its just a different sort of place, they have a lot of the older traditions and stick to them, Its great, i wish we could encourage some of them to enter our gala as well a week earlier