Hi Ellie!
Like always, I have another memory for you. The Central Pennsylvania Arts Festival
and The People’s Choice Festival were held here in town this past weekend, and
of course our favorite day to spend there is the very first day… Children’s
Day! Let me tell you about it…
Final Thought: Make
sure to support your community’s events at all ages, as they will give you
enjoyment, inspiration, knowledge and an opportunity to meet new friends as
well as connecting with old.
Well Ellie, thanks to your Mom (who is always on time) and
Will (who bypassed his nap), we arrived at the Fest shortly after it opened and
had no problem getting a parking space. Just to give you an idea at how crazy town gets… over 100,000
people attend this five-day event yearly.
Our goal was to try and beat a good portion of the crowd… but it looked
like that was everyone else’s goal too.
So before browsing the young artists booths we stopped at Starbuck’s for
Gram Russell to get a coffee. And
because she loves you and Will so much she bought you each a cake-pop…
chocolate I might add and you gobbled it up quite quickly. The reason I am telling you this is because the day was
already quite warm as you devoured this wonderful treat and my guess is that
you wiped your ooey, gooey chocolaty fingers on your backside. How did I know this? I didn’t, at least not for a good
portion of the morning. My
confusion stemmed from the chocolate that was smeared all over the front of my
shorts after we had walked a few blocks.
Then a half hour later chocolate was smeared all over my shirt. And yes, a short while after that
chocolate was smeared all down the length of my arm. Completely perplexed and half crazy I said to your mom,
“Where in heavens name is all this chocolate coming from? I am going to have to go home and take
a bath! No one is eating it and
Ellie’s hands are clean!”
Thankfully your Mommy was standing behind you because she quickly
scanned your body and started to giggle.
“Ah, check the back of Ellie’s legs. I think that is why her hands are clean. Every time you pick her up, you are
wearing it too!” Yep El…. The two
of us looked like we were dipped in a chocolate vat! Thankfully we had Will’s Wipey-Dipes as there was no time to
waste with the kids art booths coming up.
And there were quite a few dozen to check out.
Ellie, each booth hosted oodles of homemade merchandise from
bracelets to necklaces to doll clothes to pet rocks to scented goat soap to
door signs and so much more. We
all expected that you would want one of each item you saw, but you surprised us
and passed each booth with a “No thank you. I don’t want that” (except for the NO BOYS ALLOWED IN sign,
that was a must!). But then we
came to the very last booth where your eyes lit up like sparklers because this
specific booth was selling (of all things) bow and arrows with pom-poms. “That’s what I want! Can I have one please?” You asked politely and excitedly. And Gigi was sweet enough to buy it for
you! Funny thing though… even with
practice you could not grasp the concept of how to get that bow to fly through
the air!
Not to worry El… since we
were grabbing a Panera lunch-to-go so that we could picnic up on the PSU lawn
where lots of activities were happening, I was able to work the bow and arrow
over and over again from the blanket and you were quite happy just chasing the
arrows to wherever they fell!
While up on the lawn, we were also able to visit the real
life Cat In The Hat, and the Shaver’s Creek tent where you saw a live owl only an arms
length away. You also saw a turtle
and what you stated as your favorite animal… a Ratsnake! Eeeeeewwwwww! Ellie, I am not sure if you were really serious about that
or if you were trying to shock me into making a creeped-out face… but if you
were going for the latter, then you succeeded! Actually I was most amazed at how much factual information
you retained on these animals… you truly have a love of all creatures… from
pets, to wildlife, to bugs, to farm animals!
Speaking of which, the following day you, your Mom, Gigi,
Will and I headed over to the People’s Choice Festival.
After visiting a few art booths there,
we gave in and let it be pretty much your day (again!)
That means Ellie we headed over to the
train ride, which produced a whistle that cost a dollar. Let me just say that after
a couple dozen whistle blows it suddenly disappeared. Your Mommy said, “Hmmm… it must have gotten conveniently lost!” (Thank heaven for Mommys!) We also moseyed on over to the pony
rides and petting zoo. First you
rode Snowy; the littlest horse that was there last year, and then you got brave
and rode Honey, which looked 3 times Snowy’s size!
After that we took you and Will into the petting zoo which
you were quite at home in, but Will almost lost his mind!
He was sooooo scared Ellie that I think
he would have crawled on top of your Mommy’s head to get as far away from the
baby goats and cow as he could!
Talk about sibling personalities being completely opposite! So Gigi and I took Will back to the big
white tent where they were playing music and he was much happier slapping the
tables to the beat of each song, and your mommy took you to make a tie-dye
T-shirt and also hit the double/sliding board Bounce House!
Oh Ellie, what a
fun, fun time visiting both festivals was!
Like I said in the beginning: our support brings life into
some very interesting community events.
They can be entertaining, a learning tool and a once in a life time
experience! Embrace them Ellie …
they add to your roots!
Love you El-bean!
Mimi
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