We had such a wonderful time at the Chesapeake Jubilee yesterday. Well...most of us did anyway. Kai kinda chickened out on riding anything. Of course this was after Katy had bought him the $20 unlimited ride hand stamp! This aggravated Ben to no end. He came expecting to ride all day with his best buddy. But Kristian stepped in and took Kai's place as Ben's best buddy for the day. They rode on EVERYTHING! Many, many times on everything. Their favorites were the Swings(Ben's flipflops went flying off ), the Tornado, Funhouse, and Tugboat. Katy, Kai and Kaden left around 3:00....and Kristian, Ben and I stayed until around 5:00. We were there about 5 and a half hours. The weather was perfect...75 degrees and breezy. So we weren't uncomfortable at all. My feet did start aching near the end though. For the thousands of people in attendance...there were maybe 4 benches. So a couple of times we plopped down on the grass in front of the main stage....watching whatever act (kids dancing, singers, bands,etc.) was performing. They got their faces painted (except for Kai...he grumped and didn't want it done to him), went to the petting zoo (the goats were especially friendly), ate hotdogs, made some sort of wood craft thing at the Home Depot tent (this really aggravated Katy and I...the parents had to help the kids...and we kept bending our nails everytime we hammered!), Ben got a firehat from Sparky the Fire Dog, and rode all the rides. It was well worth the $20 ride pass. They had fireworks at 9:00pm last night too. But we didn't want to go pay for parking and walk though all the crowds again...so we went to our church (which is a couple blocks from the Jubilee site) and parked and watched them from their. Lots of people were there....our church even provided hotdogs and drinks for free to anyone who wanted to watch the fireworks from our parking lot. They were really pretty. The kids were oohing and awwwing over each explosion. They lasted about 20 minutes and then we headed home. Once home Ben was OUT LIKE A LIGHT. And so was I!
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