Festival Time!

It has been a long, hot weekend ... but we had lots of fun at the Tremont Turkey Festival this weekend!

We started out Thursday night at the pageant. It has been lots of fun to see it the past 2 years since Drew's classmates are the contestants. Abby went along and got bored pretty quickly, but I think picked up a new behavior to model ... each day ever since the pageant, I have heard her with a toy microphone singing her heart out. I think she enjoyed the vocal solos most of the girls did for their talent. HA

Fri night we hit the rides hard and burned up most of the tix we had. It was a lot cooler and nicer there Fri night than the past two days with 90 degree temps and plenty of humidity. But the crowds came out in good number and I think it will be successful for the community.

Today we went back for round two of grilled turkey sandwiches and strawberry shortcake ... had a couple great lemonade shake ups while we sat in a cool spot waiting for the parade to start. The kids got a huge haul in candy ... here they are trying to get the attention of one of the firemen at the beginning of the parade to toss them some candy. As soon as we came home, they put their candy bags on the scale and I think our dentist would not be happy to hear that Abby picked up 8 lbs of candy, and TJ 10 lbs. HA It was raining candy, much of the parade.

The pic above is of Drew driving in the parade with 3 of the queen contestants in tow ... on the left is Cori, our neighbor. Drew sang a solo on Fri night in the "Tremont has Talent" competition and won first place and a $250 cash prize! He sang "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts and did a great job.

Another Turkey Festival has come and gone!