Wordlessful Wednesday: Aquafest

This last weekend Kyle and I made our way into Lake Stevens, the town, not the lake. We've lived in Lake Stevens for almost five years and we have never gone to the annual event in downtown Lake Stevens called Aquafest. We figured this year would be a good time to give it a try since we were actually in town {in the past, we've been camping or something}.

We got down there right about the time the parade started so we had to turn around and we were lucky enough to find street parking not too far from all the action. And thankfully, the sun has decided to make an appearance the past week or so. It was in the 80's on Saturday. My shoulders are proving that there was sun since they got burnt.

Some of our neighbors were there so we talked with them for a bit and we just walked around. Didn't really stop at the booths. Just regular stuff that's at street fairs.

Of course, there was all of the horribly bad food that we had to indulge in. And the lava layered smoothies and the elephant ears. All that stuff that's a requirement for these sort of things, ya know?

There was a band playing in the park that we stopped and watched for a little bit. While we were sitting there, this little boy came and sat next to me. He just kept scooting closer to me and was trying to sit just like me. It was adorable! Then he got up and went and played with some other kids.

Kyle really wanted to go down to the dock to watch the wake-board competition so we did that for a little bit, too.

While we were down there, I looked over and saw this:

Do you see what I see? If not, make it larger by clicking it.

How would you like to have a ferris wheel in your back {front?} yard for an entire weekend? LOL I thought it was pretty funny!

ETA: I think I confused some people with the above picture. Let me explain. Downtown Lake Stevens is TINY. There's not a lot of room so they cram all of these booths and carnival rides into all the nooks and crannies they can find. The ferris wheel just happened to be right behind {in front of?} one of the houses that lines the lake and all the rides lined that street. These people didn't just rent the thing for the weekend. LOL Hope that clears that up. =)

We were there for a few hours and when we'd had enough of the sun, we made our way back to the car, went home for a couple of hours and then headed to the inlaw's to eat the salmon that my FIL had caught the day before. It was a good day!

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