Super Fun Days at Roberts Carnival

Friday afternoon Whitney’s school, Robert’s Elementary, had this great carnival.  The school asked if I would take some pictures for the local newspaper so I brought along a camera for the occasion.

The afternoon was blazing hot but Coach T wasn’t too bothered by it.  He needs to work on his heckling though.

There was a big rock crawling wall that looked like a lot of fun.  I wasn’t too interested in getting that close to the sun though.   And I’m sure those harnesses would make me look fat….

This kids button cracked me up.  Pretty much the way I and everyone else in my family feels.

Whitney and James were sporting new tats.  They saw the tattoo booth and just couldn’t resist.

They had all these fun blow up, jumping, crawling, sliding party rigs all over the place.  There was this rocket that would lift a kids all the way up like a reverse parachute. 

 

Whitney wanted nothing to do with it so I crawled in with one of the Lynch family to take some pictures of her on the ride. 

On the basket ball court there is pizza, chicken sandwiches, ice cream, cotton candy and best of all Snow Cones!  The parents of Ms. Wilson’s class ran the snow cone booth.  Some of the parents (I won’t name any names) looked marvelous in their rubber gloves and hair nets.  For privacy I added a creepy black bar across the eyes of this parent to conceal her identity. 

When I saw this I wanted to either sing Snow Cone man by Adam Carroll or Lunch Lady Land by Adam Sandler.  Either way Whitney loved the snow cones.  She had an yummylishous green apple bubble gum flavor.

The Charnquist boys met up with us and joined in on the fun.  Sayer was working an ice cream freeze headache right out of the gate.

After the sweet treats the boys headed over for a little silly string battle.  James handed over his last two tickets for the throw down.

He wasn’t sure how to use the cans so I showed him the proper way to be silly with the string.

At this point Sayer was at the ready with his can of string and these boys were bringing the fight.

Now pound for pound Charnquist was all over Clark, but Clark has these cat-like reflexes and sudden moves that would even make Neo of the Matrix proud.

But every now and then he got hit hard with the silliest of strings.

Even the camera man took a shot every now and then. 

So when the string dust settled the cans were thrown down and the world of "Too Much" was setting in- we decided to head home.  Sayer and James had a rough time leaving but they survived another day.  Oh, to fight silly with string is such a wonderful thing. 

We had a lot of fun at the carnival and look forward to the party next year!