street fair!

This weekend was the town’s big end-of-summer street fair. There are tons of crafts to look at and lots of food to try, along with live music. It’s a pretty fun time!

Unfortunately, this was also the weather’s weekend for a big end-of-summer RAINSTORM! We ended up hiding under a lot of awnings and tents, but it was almost fun trying to dodge the storms.

I guess this is his “I’m-waiting-patiently-under-an-awning” face.

Part of the waiting was actually enjoyable because we got gyros! I am obsessed with Greek food and this new restaurant had a stand out there, so we just had to try it! I think it might even top my favorite Greek place, but I probably need to try it again for it to be a fair assessment (hint hint Michael…)!

These tall robot guys were walking around at the last fair… but I made sure we got a picture with them this time! I don’t know how you get hired to walk around on stilts all day, but it sounds like a pretty fun job to me!

And despite the torrential downpour, none of the humongous splats of bugs on our windshield from driving up to the lake last weekend were washed away. Bug guts are pretty durable!

FAIRly fun weekend! :)

This past weekend, there was a little fair in town to celebrate the official start of summer. It was really nothing big- just a few tents with crafts and a tiny carnival in a church parking lot. It was pretty hot, but we walked around for awhile and made it a good time.

We found this one station set up with all these hula hoops! We learned that bigger hoops are supposedly easier to “hula”.

Michael wasn’t too bad at it, but there were some little girls who were practically professional hula-ers!

I just had to try. Please don’t laugh too hard. I know I look SO ridiculous! The baby bump actually improved my performance, although I still have nothing to brag about.

Michael was pretty excited for the fair food, so we each picked a treat to share. He couldn’t resist funnel cake!

I had never tried any before, so I had a little bite to see what it was like. It tasted like a doughnut to me! Michael had planned on me eating more than just one bite, so sadly he ended up with more funnel cake than he alone could handle, and only finished about half of it.

It was hot, so I chose blue-raspberry Italian ice for my treat. Mmmmm.

On the way home we saw some beautiful flowers. We even saw a little honey bee! Keep in mind that I don’t have a macro lens, so I had to get pretty close with my 24mm to get this shot. I’m usually afraid of bees! Anything for the sake of art.