Sunday, August 1, 2010

Sweet Applewood Festival

Every summer our town has a small fair called Sweet Applewood Festival, named after the bacon that is made here. We only live about 3 blocks away from the park that holds the festival and the live music fills our house for the weekend each summer, but despite that, this was only our 2nd time going to the fest.

My parents and I took the girls. Dave had to wait at the house for someone who was coming by to buy our broken snow blower. As we left the house, I was thinking how looking up our driveway gave the appearance of at least one of us being rather confused. A hot summer day and the snow blower was sitting front and center.
 




















And this was just the little dragon coaster. We couldn't believe they still wanted to ride this one, but they had a blast. Click on the photo to see funny, excited faces.


 Carousel sweetie. She loves naming all the horses as we go on the ride. Names like Sassa and Zazzu.


 And this game started a spending spree on carnival games... I think both of our parents have usually been the ones who have indulged the girls requests to play such expensive, hard to actually win games. But look how happy she is ~ she won an inflatable squeaky sledge hammer for this one, and a unicorn she named Blue Sky later in the day.


 Sweet Applewood's version of one of Kahiwa's favorite rides, The Scrambler. They called it The Sizzler here.


 Phew, all that spinning is done!


 The swings. I think the ride operator fell asleep while running this one. The girls were up there for several minutes.


 More games, more happy faces.


 The girls with their prizes, Alyssa's: Apple Spice and Tangie {short for Tangerine}, Emma's: Steve and Boo.


 A girl who takes her driving rides seriously. In the pic on the top right where you can't see her, she's ducking down to avoid an asteroid collision. That was my dad's guess.

Thank you so much to Grandpa and Grandma who treated the girls to such a fun day at the festival!! They loved it so much!

1 comment:

Michelle said...

looks like a fun fair!!