Summer Festival

The kids have come to really look forward to the festival every summer. They are still in the "just right" age for the inflatables, and that was a huge highlight for them. We spent lots of time trying to keep track of all three of them on the inflatables on Friday night and Saturday. It was a beautiful, hot & sunny weekend, and we spent lots of time outdooors.

On Saturday, we biked to our usual parade spot and met Grandma & Grandpa, Grandma & our nephew, and some friends to watch the parade. Of course the kids loved to gather candy, but they also enjoyed lots of the floats, the pipe bands, and the horses (especially the girls, G has an aversion to horses as "way too girly"). They were all excited to see their swimming teachers in the parade, as queen contestants. After the parade, we went home for lunch, then packed up to head to the park for the day where we met our nephew. After some more time on the inflatables, we went to see the motocross stunt riders, which was a huge highlight for the kids. M still talks about the motorcycles every time we drive by the location where their ramp was set up. We had supper at the Mennonite food both, and G wasn't too impressed with the gluten-free, dairy-free food that I'd packed for him, but we got over it with a promise of sushi in the coming week ;-) After supper, we spent more time on the inflatables, and then took the kids to the stage show. They were super excited about the crowning of the queen, and L was thrilled that her swimming teacher was crowned queen.

Sunday was a hot day, perfect for swimming. So we went to the pool early for family swimming with our nephew. Because it was a free swimming day, the pool was pretty packed. Our day changed pretty quickly after we watched the lifeguards resuscitate a little girl. They did an amazing job, but it was a pretty horrible experience for us. We decided to take the kids home so we could recuperate, and we ended up discussing what they saw quite a bit.