10/6/12 Harvest Festival and Art Center Re-Opening

The first Saturday in October was Ohlone's annual Harvest Festival, which is the largest fundraiser for the school's farm. I signed up to help with the first shift of T-Shirt sales. I thought it would be straight-forward and not that busy.

The t-shirts were brown with a rooster even though the farm no longer has a rooster. The school had to give the rooster away after a neighbor complained about its cockadoodledoing. I ended up buying one myself. I figure if I'm trying to encourage other people to buy one, I should buy one, too.

While I was doing the t-shirt sales, Hansel was taking the kids around to all the activities. I joined them at the Rummage Sale after my shift ended.

We went home, had lunch, and then Mathis had his nap.

On our way to the Harvest Festival, we saw that the Palo Alto Art Center was having its Grand Re-Opening, so I took the kids to the Art Center after Mathis' nap.

Outside of the center were some cars covered in art.

When you first walked in, there was a display of all the entries for the new logo and how they narrowed it down to the final new logo.

In the various rooms, they had different art activities set up. We walked by them first to get an idea. Then, we saw a performance was going on outside, so we went to watch that. After the performance, we went back in and did a number of the activities. The first was printing. The print they made read "Listen to your mom. Be friendly to people. Don't pull people's hair." Words to live by.

They also made some pottery. The 2 on the left are Mathis' and the one on the right is Maile's. Beck was still working on his. You can see his hand behind Maile.

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