All Shook Up

Yesterday I volunteered at the nature center for Home and Garden Day. I helped little kids make scare crows. It was a nice idea, but we didnt have the right stuff for scare crows. I mean, we had straw and clothes but the poles for the frames were too thick and all we had to hold everything together was staples and rope. So yeah, it was interesting. I got straw in my eye and it was bothering me for the rest of the day, that was fun. So that was from 10:30 to 2 when I had to leave and go to my Aunt S's to meet up with my Aunt R because I was volunteering at some charity even she was helping out at.

It was for the Akron Symphony Fanfare or something? Basically lots of rich people came, ate food, bought stuff and then went to see the Ultimate Elvis experience. So I got to wear a spiffy red jacket and stand in the parking garage of The Radisson, telling people to go to the elevator for an hour. Then we went upstairs and the volunteers got free food in the little restaraunt. We had salad, stuffed chicken, asparagus and baked potatoe. Mmm. After that my cousin and I went outside and helped people onto shuttles to take them to the Civic. VIPs got to ride in the Cadillac Escalades. My cousin asked if they could pick us up and the driver said sure. Then my cousin asked if he could drive :P I thought he was just playing around but the guy said it was okay so he got to drive! lol. The Escalade was awesome. I've never been even up close to one before and I probably won't ever get to ride in one again so ;)

The Elvis thing was pretty cool, if you like that sort of thing :P I happen to have an unexplicable fascination with Elvis and this guy was supposed to be the best impersonator in the world. So. Yeah, no pressure. All the fangirls old ladies were cracking me up. I thought the lady in front of us was going to pass out. or something. We werent that close but we had good seats. Considering everyone in the audience was probably a little old lady, no tall dudes were sitting in front of me for once and I had a good view. The Imperials opened for Shawn Klush (the elvis dude) and then Shawn performed with them. He was pretty funny, he was joking around and stuff. I was thinking, and I realized it was just like acting only he only played one person. Then for some reason I was thinking about his wife, if he's married, and I was trying to imagine being married to an Elvis impersonator. It would either be the biggest joke and I couldnt imagine taking a guy like that seriously or, based on the chic, it could be somebody's dream come true, lol. Anyways, that was pretty cool. He kept giving out his neck scarves to girls who came up to the stage, it was funny. He must've given out like 30 of them.

Then we went to drive home at about 10:30. My aunt's car was acting up and eventually just died. My other aunt had been driving right in front of us and she tried to help us out. Eventually after a couple frustrating hours, we left the car at a hospital, got in my other aunt's car and went to her house where my OTHER aunt's neighbor picked us up and took us to their house again and then my cousin drove me home. I ended up getting in at about one o clock. definitely a long day, lol. Interesting to say the least, and most of it was kind of fun so... I guess thats it for today, :P