Went to the special Spidey and Iron Man: Avengers Team Up! next. From what I can tell, this is a crossover between Spidey and His Amazing Friends and the spin-off Iron Man and His Awesome Friends. Peter joins the Avengers, including Iron Man Tony Stark, Black Panther, Captain America, and super-stretchy Ms. Marvel, to stop the Green Goblin and Ultron from teaming up to wreck havoc on New York's machines and make them all do what they want.
Changed the Cabbage Patch Dolls into summer outfits while the cartoons were on. Dulcie, the girlier doll with the long red yarn hair, wears a red plaid shirt with ruffled sleeves and a boat print on it and jean shorts with plaid bow trim. Tomboy Carrie with the short yellow yarn curls got a bright blue sailor romper.
Left for Thomas Sharp around 11:55. I called Uber this time. Though it was sunny, I wasn't sure what the weather was going to do. Not to mention, there was the Blacktop Bash later. There wouldn't be anywhere for me to park the bike. The driver going there picked me up in 8 minutes. The one going home came in 7. No problems either way, and I was right on time.
We started off with 18 kids today, 8 at my table. We didn't have that many for long. Many of their parents came in the first hour. Some of them didn't last through lunchtime. For those who did, I read "Goofy, Movie Star" from Storyland and several shorts from Richard Scarry for them. I brought the old Mickey Mouse Memory game that belonged to my brother Keefe when he was their age and broke it out before we went outside. I played with two boys and a girl. The younger boy did by far the best. He had quite a memory! He had twice as many as anyone else before the head teacher announced it was time to clean up, because we were going to the playground.
I'm glad that it was hot, humid, and blustery today, but it never rained. Considering it's supposed to rain all day on Monday, this may be the last chance we have to take the kids out during the current school year. There were only 10 kids left by the time we all made it out there, enough that they could all swing right away. I kept an eye on those swinging while the boys chased after the stuffed Spider Man one of them brought and wrestled with it and each other. We finally brought them inside when it started to get too hot and humid and they began to set up for the Blacktop Bash.
There were two younger kids left when we all went back inside, but I stayed anyway. The head teacher had to leave early, and the afternoon teacher for the older kids couldn't come at all. We did try to go back outside to the playground, but it was brief. There were too many older kids out there who weren't with Healthy Kids. I watched the older kids make snakes with Play Doh, read Richard Scarry stories, and played another round of Mickey Mouse Memory with two kindergartners and a first-grader. This time, the kindergarten girl got by far the most matches. I finally left at 5:15, when they were down to five older kids and the younger kids were long gone.
The Blacktop Bash was in full swing when I got off. Fortunately, the line wasn't long at all. I paid my $6 and got in with no problems. There were three food trucks, a bake sale and pizza table, a table selling Thomas Sharp merchandise, a tent for the kids to have their faces painted, and tables and tables of raffles. I left the raffles to the families and had dinner from the trucks instead. I got a tasty, if messy, cheese steak quesadilla from the Mexican food booth (their specialties also included fried macaroni and cheese balls), then sat down for dinner at one of the many tables set up while chasing my napkins, which all blew away in the wild wind. Cooled off after that with a Pina colada shaved ice from the Kona shaved ice truck. Said "hi" to several of the kids from the after-school program and their parents, then watched kids run around and play games near the entrance to the cafeteria.
Oh, and the kids are so sweet. One of the girls and her parents gave me a $20 gift card to Dunkin' Donuts for taking good care of their daughter all year long. A boy and his family gave me a $20 gift card to WaWa and a card he made himself. I've never felt so appreciated. The kids may drive me crazy when they're together, but I love them all individually.
Finished the night at home with Killer Diller on Tubi. I go further into this tuneful B-movie from the late 40's with an all-black cast that includes Nat "King" Cole and Moms Mabley for Junteenth tomorrow at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
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