Our area has a lot of fun festivals and street fairs in the
summer; on June 7 the entire family went to some. Mom and Dad were watching Mat and Andi's kids
for the weekend** and Erica's family came down for the fun.
We first went to the Lafayette Fairie Festival; so the
little girls could see fairies and get their faces painted. It was SO WEIRD; I was expecting it to be a
little 'Renaissance Fair'- esk and maybe a little eccentric but I was not
expecting what we got. There were things
the kids could do at each tent, live music and there were fairies flying- what
could be bad about that? It looked homemade (but not well) by a bunch of overzealous
fairy enthusiasts on 'something' other than happiness and it was set up in a
small dirt lot with a handful of tents. There
were a lot of costumes from a leprechaun, a dragon, pirates, princesses, street
wenches, and, of course, fairies. Most
of the fairy costumes looked like a women's excuse to wear a corset (some
looked like lingerie) with a tutu, a ton of make-up and wings. There were some
cool parts; like a group of high school level actors that put on a play with
sword fighting and a 'real' mermaid that the girls got to see (it was a little
magic to a 1 year old).
We then went to the Taste of Louisville, which is a street
fair down Main Street in Louisville where there are a lot of booths and, what
the kids were excited about, free stuff.
There were food carts, advertisement booths, entertainment/advertisement
booths, craft booths (Rachel and Nedra were there with their beautiful jewelry)
and some live entertainment. We got free fondue, free
cake and free cookies and free snow cones- the kids were on a sugar high. The kids got to break a board in half with
their hand (I did it with my forehead- I'm awesome) and did jump rope
competitions. It was hectic and
exhausting but very fun!!
** Mom and Dad watched Mat and Andi's kids for the weekend
while they went to Arizona for a job interview (they got it, they are moving- tear). I got to have the kids spend the first night
with me; we saw 'The Sandlot' at the Movies-in-the-Park. And of course we went
to the Sweet Cow! Later I went swimming
with Wyatt, Gwyn and Elizabeth- it was fun but hard to watch all those little
ones in the water (thanks Mom for helping with that one). It was so much to have them spend the weekend
down in our neck of the woods. I sure do
love those kids and will miss them when they go.
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| She is hiding because I told her not to eat dirt... and she ate dirt! |
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| Cousin Love!! These three play so good together! |
Another side note- since I am so behind on my blog. This last Wednesday (June 18) Mylie come over
to spend the night and watch the movie in the park with me but it was rained
out. It was so much fun having her here;
she went with us to story time at the library, made delicious banana bread and
mowed my lawn. Then Andi and the kids
came down and we played at the park, went to sweet cow (yes, again, it's good) ,had
a delicious dinner and then got to listen to (while we played) the concert in
the park (Mat and Ben were off of work for this). It is always so much fun when they come
down!! That night Ben was getting Elizabeth ready for bed and she fell asleep
in the bathtub- poor tired girl!!
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