I finally managed to get everyone out to one of our local festivals. It took some nagging, but, in the end, Jason admitted that it was well worth it. I don't think we were fully prepared for how crazy a popcorn festival could be. One of the main streets in Beavercreek, OH was completely shut down for this festival. There were stands for various foods, churches, crafts, and more! They even had a fantastic kids play area which I will show photo's of shortly.
As Jackson continually pointed out, as we passes stand after stand, that we were there for popcorn and that is all he really cared about.
Finally, we settled on a stand which was selling smaller bags of various flavored popcorn. We picked three bags. Caramel, white cheddar, and s'mores!
Before stopping to snack on some of our popcorn, we came across a tent which had personalized foot stools, coat racks, puzzles, and more. I loved the foot stools because the names were inset in the bench as a puzzle. Much to my delight, they had a "Jackson" and a "Molly" bench. Unfortunately, we weren't prepared to spend the money and stood there for what felt like an hour trying to decide if we were going to get the step-stools or not. So, we moved on to give ourselves more time to think. In the end, we settled on two delightful coat racks for the k
ids.
Jackson got a baseball and Molly got a butterfly. These weren't as expensive so that was our compromise.
It was going to take about 45 min. for the man to make them so went to explore more.
We found some shade and tested out some of our popcorn. We started with the caramel popcorn. It was delicious! The kids enjoyed it as well. Then, Jason took Jackson into the kids area and bought some tickets so Jackson could play games. It was only $1 for 8 tickets and most of the games were only 1 ticket to play. It was great! Jackson even got to jump in a bouncy house and Molly got in on some of the action. Kids were guaranteed a prize at every game. Both kids did great at throwing beanbags through a hole in a board! (Do I smell a future baseball player???) When we finally finished up with the games, we headed back to get our beautiful coat racks for the kids!
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