From the Hutt News a picture of some people swimming with
the ducks before the big race and a picture of the winning duck.
The Petone Workingmens Club has a fund raiser for the Hospice and Swee Tan's Plastics unit. The idea is that they sell small plastic ducks at $5-00 each then put them in the Hutt River and they float down to a finishing line with the first one winning a prize worth a couple of thousand dollars. This year they sold 4000 ducks so it is a brilliant idea. the ducks before the big race and a picture of the winning duck.
On Sunday we (Christine and me. Joe, Sarah, Kipp and Monty and Sophia) went over to the river to see them all come out of a tip-truck sitting in the middle of the river. Many got stuck on the side of the river due to the wind and the current but eventually the winner came home - Number 333. We had several entries but this wasn't our number.
All good fun and some couple of hundred people or more were there. They had various other things such as sausage sizzle, bouncing castles and a smaller castle that Kipp went into and jumped inside. And jumped inside - and jumped inside - and jumped inside etc etc. He loves jumping. A good day and good weather.
