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Every year the local baseball team, the RoughRiders, host "School Spirit Night" for the elementary schools in the district and it benefits the Council of PTAs.  I like this event - I think it's fun for families and good for schools to come together in a fun way.  Our school's choir sang the national anthem and one of our students threw out the first pitch.  And I was so pleased with the response over the spirit towels (all 350 of them).  We could be seen from all corners of the stadium waving our white towels.  It was a great show of unity for our school and a very fun event.  I almost lost my voice playing cheerleader!

We looked a little funny bringing big suitcases into the stadium with all of these towels.  But the effort was worth it and we were definitely the "Most Spirited"!!  Funny story though – I SO wanted that "Most Spirited School" award.  And when they announced that another school had won something (no one heard what) in the 7th inning I was so deflated (and tired) that I decided we wouldn't stay for the fireworks show.  So I packed up our towels (with a smile, of course) and we left at the top of the 9th.  Come to find out that they announced US as the winners at the end of the game…and I wasn't even there to hear it!  Frankly, neither were half of our fans since it was after 10 pm and a school night!  Oh, well…at least we won, right?!

Thanks to some of my PTA friends who came and helped me knock out the bulk of the towel painting last Wed morning.  Things are so much quicker when you make a party out of it, aren't they?!