DOOF

On Saturday we took about 27 kids to Doof-A-Palooza, held at Google. Doof (food backwards) is a show bound for PBS. This was a food fair with many booths geared for kids to expose them to healthy foods. There were a lot of booths that had different things going on. For example, how to make spring rolls, how to make butter, how to make pies, pizza, etc. Below is a picture of Sarah Kompelien a friend and chef at Google, and some of the girls making pizza dough.

Joey Altman, who has his own tv show, Bay Cafe, (on Kron4 on Sundays) did food shows with the kids. You signed up and then at different times you go in and tape your show. Most all of our kids signed up and were able to be on Joey's show. Below is one group of our girls making a salad with Joey. This was recorded like a real segment and they all got DVD copies of their show. Joey did a great job with all of the kids.

This was my group of boys for the day.

One of the booths was to paint pumpkins. These are some of Patty's girls for the day.

Here is the entire group. All the kids had a great time. Some of the different comments on what they liked best was making pizza, doing the Joey Altman show and kicking the butter ball around. My group liked making the spring rolls. They made a special extra large one for me to eat that was along the lines of a Dos Manos burrito!

Going to Google was also quite an experience to expose the kids to. They were amazed at seeing a company like this and this day made for discussions about how to work in a company like Google. Staying in school and getting good grades. Then going to college and getting a degree that opens doors to work at a place like Google. There are opportunities that are available to them if they work at it and not make the same mistakes their parents made. All in all, it was a great day for kids and the leaders!