Freedom Festival

The day before the 4th of July my mom, Bailey, Addie, Cam, and I went to the Freedom Festival in Provo. We walked through many booths and my mom bought snow cones for the kids. We walked over to the Colonial Village which was pretty neat, not to mention also free : ). The kids got to play a bunch of old fashioned games from that time period and had a lot of fun trying to master them.

Bailey and Addie watching the girl prepare some bread with apple butter-mmmmmmm! The pair of pistols on the table were actually a carving or cutting set. Cam trying out the stilts with mom's help. Addie still crying from being whacked with a stilt after Bailey tried to get on by herself.

Here's Addie enjoying her turn on the stilts. Addie actually did really well and was the best out of all the kids on the stilts, even after her injury. Bailey was taking these pictures so you get a finger in the corner of the photo.

Bailey got confused while on the stilts and started to do the splits. Instead of going forward she'd go outward until she was spread eagle.

Here the kids are playing a game where you hold two sticks and toss a hoop wrapped in cloth. You toss the hoop back and forth and try to catch it and throw it with your sticks. Cam was the master of this game and caught on really quickly and was really good at it.

This was Bailey's best game, she mastered the art of hoop chasing. In this game you try to keep a hoop rolling by nudging it along with a stick.

Cam catching the hoop with his sticks.

Addie on a stick horse. Me in the background playing the stick game with Cam.

Good Old Abe Lincoln stopped by to take a picture with us in front of the Mayflower. I'm not sure exactly how Abe found himself in this time period, unless he had a time machine.

Eating snow cones under a tree, it was really hot.

Cam making a suicide snow cone. The kids couldn't decide what flavor they wanted.