Avoca Quackoff

This year hubby got switched from a Tues-Sat schedule to a Mon-Thurs 4 by 10 schedule and his first Saturday off was the day of the Avoca Quackoff! I was so excited to get to go to the Quackoff this year. It is an annual fundraiser for the Avoca fire department and this was the 37th year. The town of Avoca is about 30-45 minutes east of Lincoln and normally has a population of 242. For the Quackoff, that may quadruple. There are party buses that leave from Omaha and Lincoln to bring people in. We drove out there with a small cooler and quickly realized we didn't do it right. Why didn't we bring our fire pit? (Seriously, some people brought fire pits to sit around! Looked so warm and cozy).

You may still be wondering what the Quackoff is anyways. It's a giant duck race! You pay $25 to enter the race, which includes a duck rental. Once you register, you get a number (they went into the 300s!) and the races began around 1pm. When it was your number range, you got a duck from the duck truck and went into the arena. You couldn't touch the duck while it was racing, but you could definitely race after it and encourage it to go the right way. If you won your heat, you got an orange sticker and then came back in the next round.

While people were racing, we may have been enjoying some beverages from our backpack. I also got to pet a duck! And talk to a lot of people around us who came from all over to see the ducks. Oh, I almost forgot, there was an auction caller there calling the races! Seriously, one of the best small town events we've been to.