Clarifications and carving

Just to clear up a small matter arising from yesterday's blog posting - Yes, I said our big Hallowe'en Party is on Friday. And in previous years, it has been on the Sunday nearest the 31st (and actually on the 31st two years ago..) This year, I have gone a bit mad and doubled-up on everything. A lot of our bookings this October are Saturday to Saturday, so families here for their half-term break might have gone home already and miss out on the big date; so I've booked a party day for Friday, then another one for Sunday. The park won't be quite as busy, but there are different dates for half-term depending on where you go to school in this lovely country of ours, so we will still have a good number of visitors onsite, AND we're selling tickets to local families and even giving some freebies out to local schools and things like scout groups, so it'll be two big events in three days, each with a different crowd.
You can imagine how happy my staff are about that! Getting to do this madness on top of their usual duties...

Anyway, the week has started well. We have all sorts of themed activities going on every day, and the Pumpkin Carving Workshop this afternoon was ridiculously busy! We have a girl who helped out in our Children's Club in the Summer who we have kept on as a part-time employee, with a view to having her as a permanent member of staff for next Summer. I had asked her to plan and run the workshop today and she went above and beyond, and then some! She'd watched loads of YouTube tutorials and done some truly amazing, artistic, intricate designs to put on display. She kept it simple for the little ones, and printed off some nice stencil sheets for them to use, but it was lovely to see them getting into it and being creative.
But my God pumpkin innards leave a hell of a mess in a ballroom!

RC 23-10-23