Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

Every year my mom and dad’s church host a fishing derby at a local pond. They stock it with over 900 fish! And every year Alora’s cousin Corbin goes and every year Alora hears about it and begs to go fishing with cousin Corbin. So this year I planned a WV weekend getaway to nana and pap’s around the fishing derby.

Alora had a blast! Now granted she didn’t catch any fish, and was bored in 0.2 seconds, but it’s all about the cute pictures right?

On Friday before the derby we went to the pond and got to see it being stocked, buckets and buckets of fish being thrown into the pond. Alora even got to stick her hand in and feel one. Then afterwards we went to WalMart and bought her a barbie fishing pole, net and tackle box! When we got home we then promptly filled the tackle box with cheerios,”we have to be prepared for tomorrow Nana!” says Alora.

On the big day of the fishing derby we roll out of bed at 6:30 and get the girls up and dressed (for the 32 degree weather outside). Once we get there it’s a glorious day, cold at first but then starts to warm up quickly. Alora’s age group is the first to have there turn at the pond, ages 3-5. She gets her little pole out and Pap puts the bobber and bait on and she casts it out, waits for 3 seconds and asks “Where’s my fish?” Needless to say with the hour that she had, she got 3 to 4 bites all of which grabbed the bait and ran.

Now even though we without fish it was still a fun day because there were still slides, swings, games and face paint to be tackled! We even convinced Nana to put glitter spray in her hair to match Alora’s purple!