Harvest Festival

We attended the Harvest Festival this year and had loads of fun! The picture above shows the first prize winning pumpkin that weighed in at over 1,000 lbs and took home $6,400. Now that's a hardworking pumpkin! We started the festivities with a spicy hot link dog then proceeded to the obstacle-course jump house, which had a giant island man affixed to the front and where BedHeadSid (BHS) and Pooks ran through with utter excitement and unabashed abandon.

BHS tried his luck at the game booths and won tchotchkes and candy galore, enough to keep him and StinkyHeadMonkeyToes (SHMT) spun on sugar and adrenalin for the entire afternoon. I think he really enjoyed this game of golf. He went back more than once, I think....

We stopped by the live entertainment stage where the "piano juggler" thoroughly entertained the crowd. The amazing antics of Mr. Menendez included jumping on a pogo stick/cello while playing a tune, funny jokes and gags, and most impressive, juggling balls onto a floor keyboard to produce classical and popular tunes.

Later we met up with Good Mikey, Uncle D, his gal pal, and kiddie winkies Bella and Colin. Of course we had to sample the food court once again where Pooks found some tasty steak tacos.

The kiddie winkies got to check out the local fire engines and police cars, while the rest of us checked out the vendors and went on the hunt for free balloons and other freebees.

As usual, the hay maze provided unlimited shrieks and confusion for our six-year old son, and the petting zoo had all kinds of cool animals for BHS and SHMT to molest. Great hilarity broke out when the plastic fencing tore and an african pygmie goat dashed out of the zoo. take note: goats can gnaw through pliable plastic! at the front of the zoo, I got to chat with a lady who was spinning wool yarn from raw/freshly sheared fleece. Very cool!

A great time was had by all! Next week: Apple Hill!