Fall Festival

Was a hot day here! Could not believe the number of people that turned out for the local fall festival. The parade was about 6 blocks long and I would guess that the people were 2-3 deep in most spots. We actually got there a little early to make sure we were in the front so that J could get candy. I should have known that about 1 minute before all the floats got in front of us, a lady and two small kids stepped right in front of us and sat down basically at my feet. I was a little peeved. I decided not to say anything though because J was so tired and did not seem interested in getting down from his perch on dad's shoulders. We stood on the side of the road for an hour watching horses, fire trucks, army trucks, cheerleaders, high school band, etc. I did not realize a parade could last that long. JB slept through it all thankfully. When B's float, the AWANA float, finally came by, he was sitting on the wrong side of the float (despite the careful instructions I gave him about where to sit). Dad chased the float down and got some pictures though. He said he had a good time though. When I picked him up afterward, he looked so tired. I did not even think to send a water bottle along with him (he had been out in the 90 degree heat for 2 1/2 hours without water.



Afterwards, there were vendors and inflatables at the local park. The fire department had free pit BBQ for lunch. I hear the BBQ was still available 2.5 hours later. (That is a lot of meat!). Remembering how chaotic the park was last year after the parade (waiting in the bounce house line that was 30 kids long) we opted to go back to the park later in the afternoon. The lines were much shorter. Although my outing was almost ruined by 2 boys that were around 10 years old. I don't know that I have ever told anyone to their face that they were obnoxious, but I did not withhold my tongue with those two. It seemed that they followed us from bounce house to obstacle course to inflatable slides. As we finally left the area I even made it a point to talk to B about those boys and how rude I thought they were. Just being loud, pushing, inappropriately using the inflatables, just 2 boys unsupervised totally feeding off of each other. The boys sure had fun and I was very impressed with all the climbing J did. He kept up with B pretty well.