Weekend Wrap-Up

We had planned on going to the Strawberry Festival all week, and decided to do that on Sunday. Back to that in a second. On Saturday, Brig took Owen to lunch with her mom and grandmother. I did yard work and wasn't it an awesome day for that? That night we went to the St. Paul's CLC auction. We went last year, but Owen was only a few weeks old and it is really just a blur. This year, Sarah was in charge and it was a wonderful and successful event. The last figure I heard was $24K in donations. She says they will know later this week how much was made for the school. This is where Owen will be going in the fall.

Now, back to that Strawberry Festival. It was held at Boone Hall, and we wrongly assumed it would be in the nice green area behind the house. We went to a Bridal Show a few years back and it was decent. We had visions of pulling out the picnic blanket and letting Owen run around in the grass, etc...you get the idea. It was not anywhere near the house. Instead, it was held in the middle of a field where they plant crops. I won't go into details, but the wind was blowing and there was lots of black dirt. We had planned to eat there but they didn't have much to choose from. After we stood in line forever, we finally had food...but it was not good. We were both looking forward to our strawberry shortcake, but after another gust of dirty wind, it was covered in black specks. We chunked that and decided it was time to go. WORST FESTIVAL EVER! Do not go! The ads on tv were so misleading. We did go by Cupcake on the way home, so that partially made up for our waste of a trip to Mt P. We both had to shower when we got home, and Owen would have had a bath immediately had he not been asleep.

There are no pics to go with this post...a) b/c we once again forgot the camera the night of the auction, b) we remembered it for the "festival" but chose not to document our trip, and c) we can't get Owen to slow down long enough to take his picture. Next weekend we have two birthday parties (luckily not on the same day) and hopefully we will have some new pics to post then.