Renaissance Festival

Definitely not my favorite place!  I haven't been to one of these festivals in 20 years or more when John and I were dating. Now I remember why! A few weekends ago we decided to take the kids and spend the day at the Charlotte Renaissance Festival.  It was a beautiful day and parts of the festival were fun but overall it's just not my cup of tea.  It costs alot to get in and once you are in they nickel and dime you to death!  Plus lots of the entertainment is just lewd and crude and didn't make good entertainment for the kids.  The kids did enjoy the jousting and I really enjoyed the people watching.  There are some very INTERESTING people there that's for sure!  I hope the kids enjoyed it because I don't think I'll be going back year after year!

Where else can you see a storm trooper in a kilt?!

Swallowing swords......so very creepy to me

 

Pumpkin Patch Visit

Yesterday we visited Cotton Hills Farm to enjoy the wonderful Fall day and to pick out some pumpkin for the front porch.  We've been to this Farm before and it's alway fun so we returned to the same place again this year.  They have barbeque, a 4 acre corn maze, farm animals, face painting, etc.  But the best part is the Pumpkin Chunkin.  We love watching them catapult pumpkins way across the cotton field!  Crazy but very entertaining!  We had a blast and picked out 2 good pumpkins to help decorate our front porch and welcome in Fall.  I love Fall!

 Getting ready to enter into the corn maze

 Hmmm...which way should we go??

 Shew! We made it!

 Poor pregnant goat.  Doesn't look comfortable does it?

Karate kids

 View of the corn maze

 Roman Revenge....the pumpkin chunkin machine.  Fun to watch!



 Ansley took this picture.  Isn't it good?

A visit to the Fire Station

Recently Elisabeth's Girl Scout troop took a visit to the Fire Station and Fire fighter Diane told them all what they should do in case of a fire and let them try on her firefighter uniform. She was so good with the kids and they had so much fun while they were learning. Then they all took a tour of the firetruck and the firehouse.   The girls learned alot and even though Elisabeth came home slightly paranoid that our house was going to catch on fire she at least knows exactly what to do in case anything were to ever happen!

 Fire fighter Diane and Captain Sparky  :-)