October 24, 2016

• Looking For Mad Hatters

  This last Saturday night Sparky and I joined some friends at church for a Trivia Night. Our team name was Mad Hatters and we all wore crazy hats. Sparky wore his Purdue Pete hat.
  

  I had a really hard time deciding which hat to wear. I considered wearing my bear hat but that would get really hot fast. I have a lighter weight one - the chipmunk crocheted hat. But that isn't very "mad". I decided to take several hats. In the first round I wore my Swiss Army hat. The second round I unfolded the hat into the winter version. Third round was time to pull out the chipmunk hat which I wore through the 4th round too. I switched to my big floppy hat in the 5th round. I got serious in the 6th round by putting on my dino-duck hat. The seventh round saw is in 2nd place so I switched to my "all business" hat with the yellow lightening bolts. We pulled ahead in the 8th round while wearing the same hat. In the last two rounds I switched to my Yoda hat and we pulled into a commanding lead.
  

  Here is the group photo where we displayed all our millinery.

  Last year our team took home first place. We were the defending champions going into the evening's competition. That is a lot of pressure. Luckily we had a lovely spread of snacks to take our mind off the reality that everyone was gunning for us!
  It was a great evening and yes, we won 1st place again! That means that we each get $20 in prize money which is $10 more than we spent to enter.
  A shout out to Mary and Dave who were the organizers:
  
  Mary's hat was adorned with sparkly antennae and googly eyes. Dave had a camo bucket hat with the brim flipped up. Mary was the official score card writer and I kept the team copy.
  
  This shows two new team members Janice and Bryan, newlyweds who are wearing big brimmed hats suitable for sunny days. At the far end of the table is Mary's sister Janice in the large hat with the fringe. The hat actually belongs to her mother who wore it for her 86th birthday party.
  
  This smiling couple are Rob and Abby who are new to our team. Rob was wearing a polka dot engineer's hat while Abby donned a army cap blinged out with a diamond tiara and hot pink satin ribbon and bow topped with pink fuzzy antennae.
  
  Here we are in our fine hats. Sparky had good karma even though Purdue lost (again) and my hat meant business! The only person not pictured is Janice's husband Hank. He was the runner taking our score sheets up to the scoring table and he was the most enthusiastic team member. After each round he would come back and make a circuit around the table dispensing high fives and congratulating everyone. You might be able to discern him in the group photo wearing a yellow hardhat bedecked with lime green and yellow feathers and a glitter ghost on the front.

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