Weekend at home

Well, not really a weekend at home. It was a weekend at home home with my family. I think its feast of famine for me. Either I don't see them for a month or so or I see them 3 weekends in a row (like these next couple of weeks). My home town had their 8th annual folk festival this weekend. Since the beginning my dad has been involved in the festival. Mostly he does all the wiring for the vendors and stages and stuff but he's also been really involved with the planning team. Because he's so involved our family has also gotten really involved and it has started to become a manditory summer event that all us girls go to. What a treat. And not just literally. There's tons of candy, cotton candy, juice, drinks and (our favorite) Sammy's Souvlaki. yum yum yum. I heard Sarah justify the indulgence twice this weekend saying that well... it's only once a year that we get all this. So I figured I could use that excuse too. Cass and I came out Friday late. We missed the evening show but that was alright since we heard it was super cold out. It was nice to get there Friday still because waking up Saturday is all a part of the fun. Cass and I slept in the same room and ended up chatting right away when we woke up. Sarah was in the room next door and heard us so she came over and jumped in bed with us too. I don't remember what we even talked about and it wasn't long but it was fun remembering how we used to do this all the time. Dan was doing aux. at the Friday the 13th celebrations so he didn't show up Sat. till the early afternoon. We all went to the park around 11:00 and walked around checking out the vendors. All us girls wanted to get some jewelry so I bought a pair of wooden earings that go into the hole with a spike (supposedly its a tiny little horn). I really like the look. Its something that I could see wearing normally instead of just at fancy times. I have a friend who has earings similar and she never takes them out. I've slept with them in for 2 nights now and they feel aright. They might be a bit big for that though. We'll see. While walking around town Sarah, Peter, Cass and I got hooked into helping out the seniors nursing home residents. A bus pulled up and someone asked if we could help roll some of the residents down the hill and to a tent. Well, one small request actually ends up being a bit more. There were about 10 of them and it really wasn't too bad. I love seniors' humour. They seem really easy going. I guess there's no reason for them to rush anywhere. The volunteers drove me nuts though. grrr..... Once we got them all under the tent I said have a good day and all that and the one lady is like "you're leave... thanks a lot (sarcastically)". That super peaved me off. It only got worse a couple hours later when it started pouring like crazy, she borrowed our umbrellas and took off. I was ready to take her head off. It turned out alright though.
As for the music, it was pretty good. There have definately been better years but I always like folk music. There wasn't really any good dancing songs and i remember other years being good for that. I think my favorites (mom, you're gonna have to look up who they actually were and tell me) were the guys that looked like pirates, the band from Quebec and the fiddle guy. Not too helpful, huh. Also, just because of all the fuss and the burn that I endured to witness him, I'd have to say Fred Elgersma, oops, I mean Eaglesmith would be up there on the memorable list too. He was super funny though (but kinda pissed me off too). Of course before he went on, Dan bumped into him and said hi. Because he grew up in our area, he has a few connections to our family. It's distant but here it goes: Dan's uncle married (but then divorced) Fred's sister. I guess the families knew eachother a bit more than that. Fred said to say hi to Dad and that he just saw our aunt Linda in Winnipeg the other week. That guy has to have a huge list of names and relations in his head if he can remember that his sister's ex-sister-in-law is married to the brother of an old friend from school (that's the connection right?) and that their kid is Dan. Wierd. Try following that one.
We spent the evening at mom and dad's eating the left over pork from Friday night's "Wine and Swine" (Dad did the cooking and carving and so got the few leftovers).
So even though it was a full weekend, it was fun and I think even relaxing. There's nothing better than a free folk festival. I'm already looking forward to next years. Next weekend there's shopping with mom and the girls, a stag and doe and a family BBQ. The weekend after that (MY BIRTHDAY) is family camping.... it's guaranteed to rain. I'll give you updates of it all. I hope everyone else had as good a weekend (especially the part where we came home late Sunday and I found that while I was gone, Caleb had cleaned up our fish fountain thing. I think I might take him back for another week.)