Our morning started off by delivering a pot of chili for the chili cook off that the local Knights of Columbus was running. We arrived to find that though the chilies were showing up there was a lack of volunteers to help get it all started. So we pushed up our sleeves and set about helping to get things ready. We then volunteered on the serving line until just before the parade started.
Our friends from Ruby Slippers and us quickly ran off to catch the start of the parade. It is always fun to watch a small town parade as everyone seems to get into it. On our particular corner there was only one kid and as the processions past and the candy was flying we all jumped in to help fill his bag. He was so excited by how much candy he got that he gave Pauline a great big hug at the end of the parade.
After the parade we went up to castle hill to watch the reenactment of the transfer ceremony. About halfway through it started to rain but soon the sun popped out and there was a beautiful rainbow over the town.
From Castle Hill we had a good view of the Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue exhibition taking place in the harbor. Once again the rain started but we figured we were better off than the victim and rescue swimmer who had to jump out of the helicopter into the water.
Afterward we went back to the church to help with the clean up and found out that Mark had won honorable mention in the chili cook off which is the same thing as fourth place and so he got a ribbon. Not bad as there was 15 types of chili in the cook off and all of them were good!
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