colonial

While J was out of town we went for the summer edition of the colonial faire where we are becoming regulars.  They switch it up each time with new fun, and this time they had a new puppet show and the flame throwing slack rope walking Bella was back.  The boys made corn husk superheroes (with striped plaid capes!) and they even had a pirate eye patch station this time. The scientist touch station had some really cool stuff, like a blowfish and even a croc that tried to gobble up the corn husk superhero (don't worry he was saved!)  I couldn't post this until daddy's birthday, because it features the gem pyramid that Aiden won in the live auction as a special present.  He was pumped to win after learning how the auction works.  He jumped for joy as the auctioneer called out, "Going once, going twice, SOLD to one very excited little boy!"  I can't think of a much better way to buy your dad a birthday present when you're six ;)  We ate our big batch of open put chicken and topped it off with some rock candy. Keaton wandered around with his "pencil" stick writing in every sandy path.  We could hardly believe that the same turkeys that were gobbling and aggressive in the spring were now wandering around all docile, even letting kids pet them!  After almost three hours on a beautiful day, we were ready to gobble home.