Corn Festival

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Corn Festival 2008
The festival this year was absolutely perfect. The weather was upper 70s or low 80s and bright gorgeous sunshine all day with a breeze. We started the day by going to Athena's first soccer game on her Fall team - the Sweet 16's. She did great! Kicked a few balls and actually ran with the other girls - woo hoo!We headed up to Wilmington after the game and had an absolute blast. We watched them saw logs, ate maple cotton candy and popcorn. We looked at old steam tractors and a really big old diesel tractor from 1919. The man with the big steam tractor let Carter and Athena toot the horns. It was super neat and sounded like a train.We saw them threshing wheat and Patrick was in the pie eating contest, of course. This year he chose an apple pie and of the three men participating, he came in second and one $3 to spend on food at the festival. Me and kids took it over to the homemade ice cream booth straight away and ate ice cream - YUM!We also did some square dancing. Athena really wanted to learn, but was tired. I was asked to square dance by one of the group and had a really great time.