End of Season Banquet

Last night we had the Flying Monkeys End of Season Banquet and awards ceremony.  It was really fun to see highlights of the year and to hear how all the Monkeys had done this season.  They are a great team and there are around 144 kids who bike with the Monkeys.  The coaches are great and so are all the ride leaders.  They really care about the kids and put so much time into making it all a great experience.

At the end of the night, they had all the Monkeys do one last "Monkey Cheer."  It actually makes you kind of emotional when you know all the goes into making this team a success and how inclusive they are to everyone.

At the end of the night they gave each athlete a frame with an individual photo, team photo and their bike race plate.  One of the coaches is a professional photographer, so she takes pictures at every race.  She catalogs them by race plate and then puts those photos together and each kid gets their own zip drive that is engraved with the Flying Monkeys logo, the athlete's name and their race plate number.  The zip driv was taped on the back of their frame.  It was so neat.

One year down, 3 more to go!