Good clean fun in sudsy Quesnel sun

Taylor Hett, 4, and sister Hannah Hett, 7, wade through the suds in the orb castle during the North Cariboo Christian School's annual Foam Fun Run fundraiser. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Rose Englund had a favourite obstacle, the bouncy castle, at the 2023 Foam Fun Run at West Fraser Timber Park on sunny June 3. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Maria Englund, Sara Englund, Diane Gibbs, Rose Englund and Travis Englund are some of the main organizers of the annual North Cariboo Christian School's annual Foam Fun Run fundraiser held at West Fraser Timber Park. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Foaming at the mouth, and everywhere else, is this Foam Fun Run enthusiast in West Fraser Timber Park in the June 3 sunshine. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

When the song said "every time I see you bubbly face, I get the tingles in a silly place" it must have meant the Foam Fun Run in Quesnel. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Plowing through foam drifts was just one of the ways people enjoyed a sudsy Saturday at the annual Foam Fun Run at West Fraser Timber Park on June 3. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

This family event got washed in the extra suds cycle. Kids were foaming at the mouth to get into the action, and the blue blazer weather could not have been taylored any better for the annual Foam Fun Run.

Hundreds of people bubbled up at West Fraser Timber Park to enjoy the suds spread around the obstacle course. If aliens landed right at that moment, the message to the mother ship would be clear: E.T. foam home.

Tickets to this North Cariboo Christian School fundraiser range in price from $50 for adults down to $15 for smaller kids, with plenty of discounts and levels to make it affordable for most. There were start-offs at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on June 3, with an ample time limit easily allowing participants to cycle through the obstacle course over and over again. There were culverts to slither through, an army-crawl area in the sand, a 35-foot bouncy castle runway, a slip-n-slide down the grassy hill, a dangly-bouncy-ball obstacle zone, and other soap stops. There were also features like a concession, prizes, swag, T-shirts, an more

“You can go through as many times as you want, or if you like a favourite obstacle you can go through that one as many times as you like, try different ones, just go where you like,” said one of the main organizers, Maria Englund.

This was the sixth edition of the Foam Fun Run, back now after the pandemic closures.

“It was Dennis and Rebekah Harding who created this event for Quesnel,” said Englund, referring to past residents of the area who are now living elsewhere in B.C., but their legacy is still slipping and sliding through the Cariboo summer. “They donated the first foam machines and originated the idea, and it just built up from there.”

The peak registration numbers were 300 people in 2018, which organizers were not expecting this rebounding year, but with 150 early-bird registrations, and many more expected at the starting line, it was a success even before the first group soaped up on Saturday morning.

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