Scottish Festival!

As I've written before, we love all things Scottish.  We're not sure why, we just do.  We try to go the Scottish Festival every year, but in years past it's always been the first weekend in June, and really hot.  Imagine our excitement when we found out it was moved to the first weekend in May, which happens to be close to our anniversary.  And since we spent our honeymoon in Scotland, it seemed like the perfect weekend.   

There were fewer people this year, maybe because of having to compete with Mayfest.  But we loved watching The Highland Games (especially Gabriel), enjoyed the food and wonderful music, and good beers from across the pond.  Oh, and the people watching can't be beat.  OK, maybe the crazies that show up for Scarborough Fair are even more entertaining.  Maybe.  

 You can't believe how many people wear kilts...

... and various other strange getups.  A tail?  Really?

This was a new feature for kids this year.  These huge balls float in a shallow pool of water, and if the kid can stand up he will be "Running on Water" (the name of the activity).  They looked like giant hamsters to me.  But Gabriel all of a sudden wanted to try it.  Gabriel does not normally jump at things like this, and we were sort of, well, delighted that he wanted to try something new.

Here he is getting his bubble blown up around him.

And this is what he looked like for the entire 8-10 minutes he was on the water.  Not much Running on Water.  Just a whole bunch of Falling Down on Water.  We were so proud of him, and he had a blast doing it.  We won't go into how much his neck hurt the next day.  Oops - silly parents!  We were so delighted we didn't think about possible bodily injury.

This was one of the better costumes we saw on this day.  I told the guy so, and after we walked off Jav thought I probably insulted him for saying he had on a "costume". Honey, do you really think that HE thinks he's a pirate?  I don't think he was that much into character.

This little guy seems to have fun wherever he goes.

My handsome guys.  It was a really fun day, that I hope we'll get to do again next year.