The upstate is great for small local festivals. You can count on lots of fair food, local vendors, live music, and traveling amusement park rides.
This one also had a 5K and Fun run. Tony was in Louisville for Dracula. I signed myself, John, and Christopher for the one-mile fun run. I had no idea how it would go, but I was hoping we could finish in under an hour. We did. It took about a half hour. It was a battle though. I bribed Christopher with M&Ms to wear the number. He was very excited as we lined up, but the second the race director shouted "Go!" he started crying. Then it was basically a sort of taffy pull: I would go a little ahead and then coax the kids to me, then a little further, for the entire loop. Not our best teamwork, but I was too ambitious. I was hoping John would come through for me... He was excited about the number at least...
Unfortunately, I misread the web site and we had to wait an hour between the time that we got there and the start of the one mile... that didn't help us either. Thank goodness for portable DVD players.
After we put the run behind us, we went to downtown Walhalla for the festival itself. And how can you have an apple festival without ice cream at 9:30 in the morning? The boys liked the swivel stools on the ice cream cart.
Christopher rode the "roller coaster" by himself. It was a caterpillar that went around a loop, complete with small tunnel. He held on like that the whole time.
John enjoyed the strawberry with another 6-year-old. I was just happy I didn't have to ride with either of them!
Then of course, apples!!!
However, the big score were the Lions Club mini-brooms. After we walked the length of the main street, we sat and they practiced light saber and ninja moves with the brooms for a good 45 minutes. And I do mean "good."
Then another break for apples.
6 comments:
great pics....it was good to see what u guys where up to while i was back home resting....
Mmmm! Apples! Looks like you had a great time even if there were some bumps!
Wait, were they passing out brooms specifically to kids, or just managed to get two?
I managed to get two by paying 6 bucks each!!
We've definitely gotten that much out of them so far... And there has been a little bit of actual sweeping!
Ah. That makes more sense. I thought it was a 'freebie' and couldn't work out why they would go with brooms rather than the traditional squishy stress balls, or, you know, pens.
These days, the churches have tents at all the events, and hand out candy to the kids and water bottles to the adults.
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