Crab Fest!!

So the biggest festival to come to the island is Finally HERE!!! Crab Fest began yesterday and it was a beautiful day to go to the fair. While it doesn't compare to the national fair in Ga it was still a lot of fun. The festival will continue for several days with different activities everyday. Saturday will have a parade and cook off with Sunday having the memorial for all the fishermen lost last year. There will also be races for kids, survivor suit swim across the bay and a Coast Guard search and rescue show. The next few days promise lots of activities, hopefully the weather will cooperate and be beautiful. However, I've been told it has rained the last 3years at the festival and that a rainy festival means it will be a pretty year so I think everyone else is hoping it rains. The first day of the festival however started out great with blue skies and almost 60 degrees. Around dinner time some clouds rolled in but it never rained. We took the opportunity to let A enjoy her first fair.

She got in her first fishing trip and even caught 2 fish! and a prize!

A somewhat deformed ducky that she absolutely loved. She tried to trade with several other game operators but she couldn't get any takers. Next she got her first fair rides.


The train was the best starter ride. She was thrilled.




Then we went to the fun house with daddy. I wasn't sure we were going to get her out of there.

The rolling entrances was slow enough she actually was able to walk it.

At one point she reminded me of Papa in the gerbil wheel at Chuck-e-Cheese in Vegas.

This was her "I'm Innocent I tell ya" impersonation.

These three couldn't figure out that the spinning disk on the floor wouldn't hold all of them. So one or two of them would be spinning the third would get on, it would stop they would all get off, so it would start spinning and they would crack up!!

Then on to the shifting floor. They was too funny for words! She giggled all the way across it.

Finally she was ready for the really big swing!!

It took a minute to warm up to it but as long as daddy held on to she was having blast. By the end I wasn't sure she would get off.

So that was our first day at the fair. We are looking forward to Saturdays event as well hopefully we will have another beautiful day.