Saturday, January 10, 2009

Crab: delicacy or bait?

I must tell you, I am NOT a fan of the crab! We had the crab feed dinner fundraiser for the MBHS baseball team tonight. Matt was our server. He did a really good job & spoke to people, smiled & kept asking if he could get us anything. We had bread, salad, rice & then crab. Chocolate chip cookies for dessert. (the best part!) Michael said they had brought in 800 pounds of crab (approx 400 pounds of meat). They did run out of bread & salad. That was a bummer, that tasted really yummy. Michael & I both tried the crab, neither one of us liked it. We had some people at our table that just downed the stuff. (We didn’t know any of them & they didn't even have any kids in the program!) I think Matt must have brought out at least 4-6 big pans of crab to our table. But, we did try it. We really did.
The place was packed (well over 200 people), & they even had to set up more tables. (I had gone this morning & helped set up tables & decorate, & Michael went this afternoon to help set up auction stuff.)
There were silent auction items & then after dinner they did a live auction. They probably raised about $7000 in the live auction items alone & there were only about 6 items in that. Don’t know how much they raised in the actual dinner. (Someone said they had raised between $10,000-12,000 last year, but weren't expecting as much this year.)
With that many people in there & beer & wine flowing pretty freely, it was really noisy so it was hard to hear the raffle numbers & names they were calling & then the auction items. But maybe all that alcohol helped the bidding!
I think we may offer to help set up again next year & just give the baseball program a $100 check & not go to the dinner!
SO, that was our evening. Can you top that fun? Haha

3 comments:

Spillers4 said...

I commend you on at least trying it. Crab is definitely pretty fishy...and so for someone who doesn't "care" for fish..that was a HUGE step! WAY TO GO!!

ps. I may not write on my own blog..but I will surely write on yours! :-)

Spillers4 said...

oh..wait....where are the pictures to prove all this???? A blog without pictures.. hold on...let me sit down!

Karen said...

I know! I should have brought the camera & taken a picture, because it's likely to never happen again! haha Sorry to let you down like that. :)