Coastal Carolina Fair 2014

After church today we decided to go to the Fair !

Waiting in line for entrance tickets. It was cold for South Carolina. 53 degrees.  The line moved quickly.

Looking at all the fun informational booths.  Lon got his own bag to carry his stuff around in.  The little 6 inch rulers are great!

The sand sculpture.  Over the course of the fair it will be finished.  We will keep taking pictures as it progresses!

We looked at the horticultural building. Lon was fascinated with the miniature flower arrangements.

Looking at butterflies. Learning a little about how to attract them

Looking at the quilts and sewing. There were some Lego sculptures that Lon thinks he can easily make.  We have to enter stuff next year.  I talked to someone about entering. Here you just show up at the back door the Saturday before the fair starts.  No pre paper work.  Good to know

Corn dog break.  The lady who shared our table also shared her bloomin onion. The thing was huge, incredibly greasy. It was fun to eat a bit of it, glad we did not buy the entire thing!

Face in the hole!

Happy Mark with his smoked turkey leg!

beauty shot

Happy Happy Mark

After years of telling Lon he would really love funnel cake, he finally tried it. He ate most of it.  He really did like it!

At the Bee City booth.  Lon looking for the Queen Bee

He found the Queen

Learning more about bees.

The plasma lights. Lon loved them.

We went to look at the animals.
The velveteen rabbit!

Cows. Cows are wonderful

Piglets!

Petting the BIG bunny!
They did have goats of all sorts too, but I did not get pictures of them this time. Maybe our next fair visit

Lon had been asking the entire time we were there to go out in the kayak.  After our first trip around the fair, we let him! Getting in his life jacket. The man running the operation said that if he did happen to capsize for some reason, he would be the one to go rescue him.  Cursing the entire time, but he would be the one to do it.

Pushing off

He's off, paddling around the pond

He can control where he is going

uh oh. water, spraying water!  I wonder what he will do!

Get wet, that is what he will do. Get soaking wet. Have a blast doing it too!

Paddling away!

Lon was out there almost half an hour. Which is wonderful. He had a great time. I am thinking we might have to invest in a kayak!

Warming up with some hot chocolate.  We walked around the fair one more time. I did feel bad for Lon being so wet and it was chilly. (48) He took off his wet sweatshirt and I let him wear mine. Which had my camera in the pocket. This was my last photo of this trip to the fair.
We did not do much else! We had a great time at the fair.
Looking forward to going back sometime this week. Maybe Wednesday!

Halloween 2014

The weather finally is cooling down, it was in the mid 70s today! Lon was not going to roast in his costume!

Lon is showing off his new shirt!  His semi secret pen pal sent it to him!

Our front door

The annual picture with the great pumpkin!

and with the black cat. This costume and the cat reminds me of How to Train Your Dragon.

Lon and his Long Boat!

Ready to go and fill the wagon!

The most adorable wonder woman!

Then it got very busy and I did not have time for pictures of the great costumes.
We had about 130 trick or treaters who came to the door!

Lon's candy!

Our house at night.  We put lights on the tie downs this year so kids could not trip on them.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!

Halloween Preview

The costume was posted yesterday, today we worked on the wagon.  It needed to look like a long boat.  Hopefully we have made something close

I have yet to figure out how to draw on the sea serpent head on the bow sprit. I am working on it! 

Cub Scout Halloween

Tonight was the cub scout halloween meeting!

Lon wanted to wear his viking costume.
we made it together.  The boots are his muck boots with
the fake fur hot glued onto them. This was a shake down to see how is costume would wear
We have to fix the belt

watching the Tigers earn their badges!

games! How fast can the scouts wrap one of their own in toilet paper! Lon's team came in first, with the fastest time, but team two won with the second fastest time but the neatest wrap.

Pretzel on a string. A little faster than apples on the string.
Lon won his round of the pretzel eating!

Fun night with the cub scouts!

Scarecrows on the Square

Since we missed seeing the Scarecrows on the Square last night, we went today! We went to church and then to Italy for their Sunday Buffet.  It was wonderful!   Salad, meatballs, tortellini alfredo with shrimp,  chicken parmesan, and lasagna.
Then we really needed the walk around the square!

All the information you need to know about this event!

Mark and Lon walking to see the displays
I am not going to post a picture of every scarecrow. There are a LOT of them!!

This one actually says Photo Op!

I like the pants coming out of his head

Some of the displays were very fun

Face in the Hole!

Testing if the tin cans and string actually work!
It does!

Lon's new dentist had a display!

Another face in the hole !! We have to come up with a new name for those

Lon was not sure about the ultra sound display.
He did not understand what they were doing.

Chillin

Not sure they even did the trick or treat for unicef anymore!

Pretty cool

He gave it a good try!
It was a fun afternoon downtown!

Ghost Walk and Harvest Moon Festival

Tonight was the Ghost Walk and Harvest Moon Festival in downtown Summerville.  I am not sure how we missed it last year!

Jack was able to come with us!

The first thing we did was the Ghost Walk. We did the G rated version, since Mom scares easily.

Train stories were told!
A great story teller.  The boys were paying close attention!

Another stop, another story!

These kids were great, they told three stories. They were adorable

The last stop was fairy stories.  She was great, we saw her on out way home. The crown and the wing had lights in therm

Waiting for the hay ride!

On the hayride! It was fun.

Hay! With Prizes buried in it!
So much Fun!

Jack's prize.

We got some pizza and the boys started dancing in the street.
Jack can really dance!

We then went and played a lot of the games, met up with some friends and did some more dancing
We even saw Lon's lego robotics teacher! It was nice to chat with him for  a bit.
We had a great evening!

Spanndroids

Today was a scrimmage for the Spanndroids.  That is the Lego Robotic league at Spann. Lon had to apply an be chosen to join. They take 20 students from the fourth and fifth grade.  Lon is loving it. Every Thursday after school, the club meets till 4:30. There is one scrimmage a month, getting ready to compete against other schools.

Lon is programming the Mindstorm robot they built today.

Showing off the robot

Going through it's paces

The parents were only invited to the last half hour.
It was fun watching him do his thing with Legos.