Highland festival

The Highland festival was this last weekend. I took the boys to eat fair food and watch the dancers and see manly men throw big boulders.

The weather was hot. Too hot for us to hang out for long. We arrived during a gap in the activities as they were awarding prizes for the morning events and the afternoon events had not started yet.

One of my friends had entered her shortbread into the tasting competition. I had thought to wait around for the results but it was just too dang hot. We were going to the pool to swim instead. The boys enjoyed the day for a short while. While they had money for food. Once the money was eaten up they wanted to go. Trevor was enjoying most of the activities. He like to watch the marching bands with their drummers spinning their drum sticks while they played. He also enjoyed the He Man competitions, the parts we did catch.

Riley was just hot and bored, trying to find a cool spot in the shade. I borrowed an umbrella from my girlfriend. She had one in the trunk of her car. Riley confiscated it for my friend's daughter and himself so they could be shaded even while we walked around admiring the costumed people and the booths.

Riley found a used book sale booth and was able to pick up a book for a dollar. That kept him entertained long enough for us to get our fill of the fair before we decided to go take a nap in our air conditioned houses then meet later and head up to the club for a late afternoon swim.

My friend's daughter thought the festival with people in costume was weird. I found it delightful. I love going back in time and living history. Fairs have not changed much as they once were centuries ago. Men threw big boulders and javelines hundreds of years ago. People wandered through the fair grounds admiring the wares and eating fair food. The concept has not changed in a thousand years. The food is probably safer to eat and it doesn't take days of travel and camping out to get there. It was also nice to end the day in air conditioning and a hot bath.