Scarecrow Festival

A couple weeks ago Zuri's school sent home a flyer about the 22nd Annual Scarecrow Festival--and the best thing about it--admission was free!  So, I rounded up Amanda (my sister-in-law) and her toddler, Jaxson, and we went.  Unfortunately, the activities are more geared toward elementary school aged children, so there wasn't much for Jaxson to do, but we had fun hanging out together. 



Zuri had a blast.  She went in the bouncy houses (Jaxson briefly jumped in one), explored the big pumpkin, and for a dollar, she made a rocket and got to launch it.  That was her favorite activity, and would have kept it up all day if she could.  It started to get cold, so we ended up going home earlier than anticipated.

Retrieving her rocket.  Once you pay your dollar for the rocket, you can shoot it off as many times as you like.  If your rocket gets lost or damaged, you can make a new one for free.  It was really quite cool.

Kai enjoyed the time out as well.



Back home.  Amanda holding Kai

It was a two day event, and we had some respite hours on Saturday, so we took Zuri back.  We had lunch at Firehouse Subs first, where she got her nifty Fireman's hat. 


She loved the steep slide.  I think she went down it a good five times before the line started getting really long and we moved on to the next activity.  Along with the slides, bouncy houses, and rocket launchers were games, pumpkin patches/mazes, bungee jumping, a tower of terror, and so much more.  Many of the activities had a height requirement and Zuri was just slightly too short, but she had so much fun with the activities she could do that she didn't even notice.


Once again, her favorite activity of the day was the rocket launcher.  She was really good at tracking her rocket while running to get it.  We are talking about the rocket going at least 100-150 feet in the air.