Day 3/Silent Auction

It's Wednesday (even though this was posted on Thursday) and we're at the mid point of the clinic. Unfortunately, this week is flying by. We saw 110 kids today and will have an even busier day tomorrow. Tonight we held our silent auction and had a great time. We raised over $1200, which will go directly towards OneSight.



There were great items to bid on, like a one of a kind pair of Oakley sunglasses with the OneSight logo etched on the lens, a OneSight flag signed by all of the clinic team members, CDs of local jazz artists, and other items from different team members' home towns, just to name a few.

The bidding began with everyone looking at each item and writing their name and bid on a sheet of paper. Each table had a time limit for bidding. As the closing seconds neared for each table, the pushing and shoving commenced, as people started vying for that last bid that would win them the item. There may or may not have been some cheating involved (eh-hem, cough, Mike Bates). The highlight of the night was the game of pin the jelly fish on the Sponge Bob net. Each person had to pay $5 to play, and the winner had the prize money deposited into their OneSight donation page.


The game was highly entertaining as their was a lot of spinning involved, and included team members being unknowingly led out into the hotel lobby, led across the opposite side of the room, and even directly into a birthday cake (unfortunately, we did not get a picture of Joanne King with her hand in the cake).