Mayfest

We headed downtown for Mayfest on Saturday. This year we got to bring along Grandma Elaine and met up with Mickey as well! There is a lot to see and do at Mayfest. One of Ben’s friends had been earlier in the week and had told Ben about the face painting. So that was first on our list as it was very important to Ben to get a Batman face too. He had never had his face painted before and I think he didn’t really care for it that much. He was determined though to look like Batman. The nice artist suggested a modified design that wouldn’t cover his whole eye area since he was a little apprehensive about her touching his face. Mom thought that was a great plan as it would also be less black to wash off. E thought she wanted her face painted until she got in line and then promptly changed her mind.

We looked at a few booths and watched a belly dancing performance for a bit that the kids were very interested in. Ellie liked the music as usual and Ben was very interested in their scarves and why they were playing peekaboo. We decided to get lunch before the lines got long and picked up a variety of super healthy snacks including bacon wrapped meatballs, corndogs and deep fried ravioli. Yum! We enjoyed our choices and then looked at more artists’ booths as we headed to another performance stage. This one had clogging. E again danced to the music and Ben even got caught up in it and tried to do a little jig with Grandma Elaine.

We decided it was treat time and also time to wind our way back to the car to head home for naps. We looked at another row of booths on Main and then hit the Dippin’ Dots cart. Yum! We saw some chalk art competition entries in progress which were pretty cool and got loaded back up finally to get home and rest. The kids did awesome considering it was past both of their nap times and then slept hard once we got home.

It was another fun family adventure and we look forward to many more this summer!