This morning was pretty special. The library near us was having a "National Storytelling Week" morning, with lots of stories and prizes to be won. So we (in true Hartley style...) shined ourselves up for the event, painstakingly picked our favourite costumes, and headed on down. All geared up to take out all the prizes, and have some fun (and use up a lonely Saturday morning, while Daddy was busy selling cars).

We arrived an impressive 20 minutes early, and proceeded to charm the socks off the ladies organising the event. However. As it turned out... there was also a Dora event being held elsewhere and a circus somewhere else... which apparently is more enticing to the kiddies that live in Rocky.

So. There we were. Dolled up for this huuuuge event, and ready to compete for the prizes listen quietly to the stories... and we made up half the crowd.

Yup. Half the crowd. There's some benefits of being in a big family!! We were now down to a 50/50 chance of winning those prizes!!

With the taste of victory in our mouths (the chocolate Freddos that every single one of the eight children got....) we were hit gobsmacked with reality. They'd decided not to hand out the big prizes. After all, there were only eight children there, and with four of them being in the same family...well, there'd be more winners than losers (well, equal number actually. But that's what I'm guessing their reasoning was...).

So. No prize.

But, we still had a great morning and got to enjoy all the fun activites right in the only front row.

I did feel sorry for the organisers of it all, being such a small turn out and all, but hey - they got 100% satisfaction from the kiddies, as they were all very happy with their Freddos, and everyone missed out on the big prize, so everyone was happy! Is it just me, or does that seem a little twisted?! haha.