Benefit Garage Sale a success!

I copied this from the Horsemeister blog about the benefit garage sale for Haiti. Thank you Judy for keeping us updated.

Yesterday in the mail, Joan received a special book all the way from Haiti. One of her friends from Haiti, took pictures she had taken of Gabriel and made them into a book. Joan brought the book to the garage sale to show the rest of the family. The book is so touching that anyone that looks at it automatically starts tearing up. Beth was looking at the book during one of the very busy times when a man came up with some fishing equipment and asked Beth if she would take a $1.00 for it. There was 2 lines of people behind him waiting to check out. Beth showed him the book with the picture of Gabriel and told him that all the proceeds go to the school in Haiti that Gabriel attended and she would go down. All of a sudden Beth started sobbing, mom loudly lost it, Joan starts sobbing, then Karin seeing them all crying broke out sobbing. The man was so flustered he opened his wallet and told Beth, just take it ALL! The ladies at the front of the line all start to cry sympathy tears. Then one of the ladies in the back of the line asked "What Happened?" She was told "that man at the front of the line just asked down!" So the word went out, What ever you do, DON'T ask down!
Once we realized how that looked and sounded it was cause for laughter.
The garage sale is now over and yes, we would call it a success, over $7000.00 was raised for Gabriel's school but how we wish that the last 3 weeks could be erased.