Bingo Update

At last look, the following was my criteria for a successful event:

Will there be enough pizza?
Will the popcorn machine actually make popcorn?
Will the pizza arrive on time and still be hot when it's served? Will we sell enough food and bingo cards to at least break even?

I am happy to report that the answer to all is YES YES YES and YES!!!

We had plenty (as in too much) pizza but that's ok. We sold off the remaining intact pizzas for $5 each and sold each and every one.

The popcorn maker worked well and much popcorn was enjoyed by the masses. The machine was borrowed because the one our school used to have *ahem* disappeared when the principal retired and everyone from the old PTO left last year. And, ironically enough, the PTO account was all but emptied out about that time as well. But I'm not bitter.....it's just the kids who suffer. Grrrr.

Anyway.....

The pizza was indeed still hot and people seemed quite happy.

And we did more than break even. After expenses we walked away with a profit of approx. $340 which more than covers the cost of the brand new popcorn machine we are purchasing for the school.

Everyone seemed to have a really good time and, wouldn't you know it, my son won one of the Bingo games. I missed seeing it but I heard it was a three person bingo and they did a "number off" (calling out one more number and whoever had that number on their card won) and he walked away with the prize. Not a bad one either - an electronic version of "Sorry". He also won a book bag by being the only first grader with a certain number on his card.

Kaylen didn't win anything and her complete and absolute breakdown at the end of the evening proved that point. Poor girl - she has my luck. Which is no luck. Kelton, however, is one of the luckiest people I've ever met.

We, as a PTO, learned a great deal from our first Bingo Night and will be able to implement a few new things in May when we do a Bingo for Books night.

First things first though - the Book Fair starts in just a week. There is much to do between then and now and so, so, so much to do the week of. It's going to busy....but then, what else is new? :)