"CHOO CHOO!" Alex and Dominic couldn't get enough of the trolley that took us to and from the parking lot to the Children's festival. They called it a Choo Choo Train, and yelled "Choo Choo! out the window the whole way. It was really adorable.
Molly, Rochelle and I thought it was pretty cool, too. Mainly because we thought we were going to have to walk the whole way.
The Children's Festival is located in Historic Jacksonville. It is put on by the Storytelling Guild once a year for three days. The festival started in 1967 and has been going on ever since. One of my mom's sisters took her to it when she was a little girl, and she said she remembers it being really fun. Admission is only $2.00 per person per session, and after that everything is free (except food, which is super cheap). There are about 35 different booths that give the kids the opportunity to do some kind of craft or learn something fun about science.
Our first stop was to make GIANT bubbles, which I didn't get any pictures of, and then Alex decided to explore the bushes for snakes and bears and such...Then we went gold panning, which consisted of water, sand and treasures that you found with an ordinary sand-sifter.
We made paper leis.
Dominic refused to wear his...Molly got it around his neck for about 10 seconds.
Zi-Zi went to the bathroom while we were making the leis and came back with flavored Ice...hmmmm
The boys thought it was delicious. I think it was their first taste of one, and it was a hot day, so they kept stealing bites. After that we headed up the hill where they made clay caterpillars (no pic).
We eventually found this sandbox where Alex became obsessed with this life-like crab.
Dominic was more into this cool dump truck.
Then he found a sifter and thought it was cool that he could see through it.
Peek-A-Boo!
They loved this little maze and solved it in record time.
They ran through it over and over again..it was that cool. :)They had a bunch of wooden animals next to the sandbox, so Alex of course had to ride them all.
Zebra
Horse
Giraffe
ElephantAlex was making this really high-pitched elephant sound in this picture.
We also scarfed down a lunch of hot dogs, chips and juice. The session lasted only 3 hrs and we were really late, because of parking issues, so we only got to explore for about an hour and 45 minutes. But, it was really fun and we plan on going again next year. We ended the day with another "train" ride that the boys are still talking about to this day. I guess we'll have to go back to Jacksonville just to ride the trolley. :)
