Friendship Festival....some Firsts

This was a Festival of Firsts for us.....again, thanks to some ailing camera batteries I missed some of the really cool ones...Sebastian touching a REALLY BIG snake (he didn't much care for it) and both kids playing some bongo drums in accompaniment with two wonderful young people who were sharing their art with the children....but I did manage to capture a couple of the moments...

B and Savannah on the Ferris Wheel....having a paralyzing fear of heights myself, I was more than happy to watch from the ground. We managed to traumatize ourselves horrifically last year with an ill-advised hike to Mount Nemo (imagine narrow trails close to a steep precipice..apparently the view is spectacular -- we didn't see much of them.) so this was a big step for Savannah...and it was all her idea! Needless to say, she was pretty jazzed with herself!!

*gulp*...Mommy clutches backpack nervously as beloved husband and firstborn reach the top of the circle...

Savannah wanted to try cotton candy....and so we bought some! I remember liking it as a kid but found it waaaaaay too sweet for me now....Sebastian didn't like it (too sticky - he hates sticky) and B said his teeth hurt just looking at it but Savannah enjoyed a little nibble and then saved the rest to give to her friends on returning home....

A last gasp from the camera....preparing the campfire in Grandma's beautiful back yard. Why a campfire? To roast marshmallows of course! General consensus was that no-one really likes eating roasted marshamallows but we all LOVE roasting them!!

A Retrospective: These are pics from last year's Festival....the rides were pretty much the same this time and these were favourites yet again...so even if the camera hadn't died, the photos would have been fairly similar!

Friendship Festival...the carnival

Okay...so I'm desperately behind in my posts. We seem to be so very busy these days...just LOVING the summer and filling ourselves with such Joy-full adventures that I can't seem to sit down at the computer for any great length of time. It also doesn't help that when I do sit down at the computer, I usually get booted off by the kids...;} And my laptop doesn't support my camera software (insert raspberry to Vista here) so......




Anyway...here's the backlog and I pledge to be more diligent with my entries....believe me, once the winter comes I'll have more posts than we'll know what to do with.





So here's the first batch from our trip to Fort Erie and the Friendship Festival. This was our second time and we stayed overnight with Grandma Leavey which is always an adventure...



B and Savannah at one of the carnival games....between the pair of them, they won a lovely Hello Kitty toy for Savannah...most of the winning involved throwing a ball at a target, the rest had to do with some haggling on B's part with the carnie-in-charge...;}

B's turn to throw....

Savannah tosses the *winning* ball and 'clunks Curious George in the head'!

It was about this time that the batteries started to die on the camera...

Freedom...

After a couple of days of watching and enjoying our minnow friends, Savannah deemed it time to return them to their home. And so we did....


Now it's time to look for frogs and tadpoles on the boardwalk at Kerncliff...
Sebastian finds frog-hunting very tiring....
Gypsy moth caterpillars....unfortunately they are decimating our woodlands and although the municipality decided to spray for them, the weather wasn't co-operating so it looks like they're back...and with a vengeance.