Backblog – Saturday, April 18th

Every year for the last seven or eight years, CVCA has held an auction as a fund raiser. This includes a very good dinner, and a fair amount of nice things are donated. It generally brings in over $100,000, and it helps to keep tuition down.

Saturday, April 18th, was the auction for this year. I am always invited since the check-out procedure is computerized. It is an interesting evening for me – it is a wonderful dinner with lots of people that I know, with a constant background of checking on how the computers are doing. Meredith gets to come along, and that is fun for both me and her.

This year’s theme was “God Bless America” and so the food was American, which I loved. There were burgers and pizza and lots of other good stuff. I ate too much, as I always seem to do at buffet-style meals.

I’m not sure if it was because of the economy being down or because our table was way at the back, but the auction seemed more subdued this year. The results were still okay – we were down about 15% or so over all, but it just seemed to lack some of the energy of past years. Mer found some good buys, some of which she shared with me. She got a spa package, and gift certificates for 3 dozen donuts, and the real hit (for me) was that she got a gift certificate for a Dairy Queen Blizzard cake. Neither of us had ever had one before, and it turned out to be fantastic. What a great dessert. Funny story – there were two gift cards for a cake, and several days later a teacher who had bought the other one told Meredith to be aware that the expiration date was only a few weeks away. Mer told her that was not a problem since we had already eaten our cake.

Anyway, the auction went well from my perspective; Mer had a good time, I ate too much, and the computers behaved themselves.