Winter Festival Fun, part 1

Short blog post today. We had a lazy Saturday morning where I got a chance to finish up the hat I was working on. I wore it out tonight and it was awesome! It kept my head and ears nice and warm. The true test will be tomorrow - we'll be at an outdoor festival tomorrow morning and it's going to be cold!

This weekend in town they are having the Jack Frost winter festival. The outdoor stuff includes slides and tubing and freezing. There is also an indoor component to the winter festival that includes bounce houses and a concert by the band The Imagination Movers. The bounce houses were fun. The kids did one that was an obstacle course and another that was a big slide that looked like a saber-toothed tiger. S's favourite animal is the tiger, so she thought that one was the best.

There was also a petting zoo with llamas, goats, sheep, a donkey, some ponies, chickens, piglets, and emus. S fed the pony and she seemed okay with it until the donkey next to the pony snorted at her and sprayed her with donkey snot. Eeewww. Then she was done. J wanted to feed the emu and was doing okay until the emu tried to peck his hand instead of the food. To his credit he didn't yelp or cry but I think he's added emus to the list of bad petting zoo animal encounters. (He got knocked around by a llama while we lived in VA and it scared him. I don't blame him, they are big animals.)

After the bouncing and petting, we found our seats for the Imagination Movers concert. Those who aren't familiar with the Movers, they play kids music and have a TV show on Disney Jr. My kids aren't super big into the show but the weekend passes for the festival included tickets to the concert so we went - and had a great time. They played some songs the kids knew, some songs they didn't, and some popular songs like Happy and Shake It Off. There was also a 5 minute drum solo that rocked.

The guys in the band came down off the stage and wandered through the seats. Our seats were in the center on the floor so we were able to see them up close, which was cool. They interacted with the audience and Smitty (one of the band members) even found a lost child in the aisle and helped get her back to her parents. They really seemed to enjoy performing and interacting with the crowd. What we expected to be an okay time turned out to be a lot of fun.

Now the kids are tucked into bed, dreaming of the fun we'll have tomorrow morning. I'm sure if they had their way we'd stay at the outdoor stuff all day tomorrow but J has a hockey game in the afternoon. We'll have fun while we can. I'm looking forward to trying a Canadian Beaver Tail. I've only seen them but never had one and they look good. Details to come tomorrow!