Fantastic Night Out

While scouring a website for fun things to do around the city, I discovered a local art festival with "kids activities". Not knowing exactly what that might mean based on my translation skills, we headed out at 3:30 last Friday afternoon to meet Rick at his office and attempt to find this festival. Thinking this area of the city to be quite small and thus a festival quite obvious, we boldly started walking in the vague vicinity of where we presumed the section of the city to be. To those familiar with Chicago, this would be like hearing about a festival in Lincoln Park and then trying to find it by walking from Navy Pier without knowing very much English. After an hour of walking through neighborhoods, we had just given up and decided to eat a nice dinner and head home when God heard the cry of my heart....and there was the festival on the same street of the restaurant we 'randomly' picked to stop at for dinner. Wahoo! Live music, painting, and yummy hamburgers to top it all off.

Micah could not get enough of this music and danced himself silly. I wished I had brought a video camera to document this blondie dancing amidst the locals.

Lulu was more interested in what Moo was doing than the band.

This is Micah's new "cheese" face. A bit scary, but what can you do. Here he is painting the only part of the wall left without paint....the drain pipe.

Proud dad.

The next station had watercolors on paperplates...perhaps we should try this for Christmas tree decorating this year? Micah's is the yellow and pink masterpiece on the left. ...And a family photo!