Saturday, June 21, 2008

Steamboat Days

It is Steamboat Days here this weekend. I'm not exactly sure what this is for, but apparently all the towns up here have a "days" thing. They have parades and a carnival and the ever popular beer tent. Too bad, I can't go to the beer tent because I hear it is lots of fun. On Friday, Ty's daycare went to the Kiddie parade. I went with them as a parent volunteer. I brought the wagon to take Ty down there and his friend, Mason rode with us. I couldn't make the walk back though (it was at least a mile) so Joel was nice enough to pick Ty and me up. Mason had to catch a ride back with somebody else. Tyler enjoyed the parade. The clowns scared him. Why do they even have clowns since they scared all the kids. He would pick up the candy that was thrown to him and then share it with another friend that was sharing his blanket. He can be such a sweetheart sometimes. We'll be going to the real parade tommorrow. People actually stake out a spot for this. As of this morning (saturday, the 21st), there were blankets and lawn chairs lining the parade route. The parade doesn't start until noon tommorrow. It seems a bit crazy to me, but one of the guys in our church does this and has invited us to sit with him and his family so I'm glad we won't have to fight for a spot.
Last night, we took Ty to the carnival. He really wanted to do the bumper cars, but we didn't think that was the safest thing for him. So we took him to the kiddie rides. He couldn't wait to ride this whale ride. He almost didn't get to, because he started throwing a fit when he had to stand in line. Fortunatly for him he calmed down. His friend, Jakob rode it with him. Jakob is 6 months older than Ty, but stands at least a foot taller than him and weighs twice as much as him. He's a big boy, but he's very, very well-behaved. Too bad his behavior doesn't rub off on Ty :-) Just kidding, Tyler's pretty good too. After this ride, the rode something called the Crazy Bus which went pretty high up. Tyler looked pertrified on it, but when he got off, he talked about how much he loved it. Tyler went up and down in the bus was all he kept saying.

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