The 7th Annual Manitou Springs GREAT FRUITCAKE TOSS! - January 2002
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The 7th Annual Manitou Springs Fruitcake Toss! WOO-HOO! |
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Fruitcake? YUCK! I've heard things like fruitcake is useful for filling up potholes on the Interstate. :) |
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Look at this woman hurl that fruitcake! |
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There was a competition where remoted controlled cars (the bodies were made of out fruitcakes) raced down a wooden slope. People were so intense about it ... just amazing! |
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There goes one of the cars! :) |
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The kids really enjoy the Fruitcake Toss, but I think
a lot of the adults really enjoy releasing their tension by hurling those fruitcakes! |
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That's my friend Lisa, taking a picture of me with her new camera. Lisa in the one that went hiking with me in Green Mountain Falls. |
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Bud Ford, the announcer, was so funny as he continually rattled off great fruitcake jokes! |
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Just look at the fruitcake on that remote control car! |
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As part of the ceremonies, an assortment of helium balloons with a piece of fruitcake attached was let go into the sky. The whole thing just reminded me of the Nerd Parade last year in Colorado Springs! |
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This woman won the remote control competition. Boy, does she look happy! |
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I waited about an hour in the cold for my five seconds of fame of heaving my fruitcake. |
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I don't know who this woman was, but I think she was with the press. |
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Okay, last but not least: I competed in another competition, the Spatula race, AND I WON! |
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I did not get any pictures because I was running in the race, but I won an official Fruitcake Toss t-shirt and a box of Cinnabons, the proud sponsor of today's event! YEEEHAW! |
