On Halloween Saturday, October 31st, Minis and Friends attended The Juvenile Diabetes Walk. This is the first year the event was held near the new Dell Children’s Hospital at the City park. The weather was beautiful, sunny, and warm, and being that it was Halloween, the crowd was huge. Almost everyone showed up in complete costume, from the littlest tyke to Grandparents, to furry little friends. There were Ladybugs, Cowgirls, Dorothy form The Wizard of Oz, Punk rockers, Dracula, to The infamous balloon boy.
As far as attractions for the families, there were, Moonwalks for the Children to bounce and jump on, Rock climbing, Facepainting, Hair streaking, Fire truck rides, and free food. The hit of the whole day though was the miniature horses. All of the Children on hand, were just drawn to the little guys. Time and time again, I kept hearing from the parents, Boy you guys are the hit of the event, My children just wanted to keep coming back to see the horses. They were defiantly the main source of their entertainment for the event. We had MasterCard, SeanMonet, Rocky, Rudy, and Bravo there. All of the boys, were on their best behaviour. Well besides wanting to eat the pumpkins, I brought for decorations and knocking our sodas off the table! This was only little Rudy’s, the new comer’s, second event. Gil and Paul, kept noticing when the kids would walk away or come towards the corral, Rudy would stick his red head, right over the corral, as if to say,” Come over here and see me.” It is so obvious, Rudy is going to be a great therapy horse, and he really adores kids. He wasn’t raised around any Children at all, so we couldn’t tell how much he loved them until we put them in the same venue.
The event was a huge success, as thousands, came out for The walk for Juvenile Diabetes and to support the foundation. There were parents Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents with wagons decorated which may have had their child’s name and the year they were diagnosed. As I walked around and saw these, it really brough everything into perspective and reminded me what and why we were all there. To support them so that they could find a cure so no more kids have to suffer.
Emma, called us to Thanks us for attending and supporting their foundation. She also told us, What a big hit the Mini’s were. Then they offered us a donation of 31 bales of very gorgeous coastal hay, as a way to say Thanks to us and the Mini’s. Since I was taught by my Grandfather, never to look a gift horse in the mouth, We graciously accepted this generous donation, on behalf of our Non-profit organization. Certainly this was a huge donation for us, since we are all individual owner’s and bare the expense of their food., supplemented by Callahan’s and their continuing donations. We are extremely grateful to now have hay to feed the horses for the winter. We even took two bales and made them a very soft cushy bed to lie on to keep them off the cold ground. Thanks Emma so much for helping us so that we can continue to help our community and organizations like The Juvenile Diabetes and walk for a cure.
