It's the United Scottish Society's Highland Games and Gathering, and it's recently been renamed Scotsfest, but we call it the Scottish Fair. We missed it last year. It was held at the Pomona fair grounds the last couple of years, but it's back to where it was before that, at the Orange County fair grounds. We had a great time.
I guess last year was the first year they had an archery range for kids, but it was our first time. Here you can see I'm trying to help Duncan with his technique.
Now it's Liam's turn.
Then Jennan got a turn too. It was a little trickier doing it lefty though. All the kids LOVED shooting the arrows.
Here are some bonny lasses.
One of my personal highlights of visiting the Scottish fair is eating a meat pie! If they weren't so darn over priced, I'd eat a bunch of them. But one is better than none. Anna thinks they taste like cat food. Anna and I also split a fish and chips, and a banger.
There was a guy there that had a bunch of stations of castle blocks. I think he also sold sets of them too. We didn't buy any, but the kids had a great time building castles and towers.
You know the kids are having a really good time when they're getting along REALLY well. Here you can see that Duncan and Liam started waking arm in arm. It was a nice parental moment to see them so happy with each other.
Another motivation to come to this Scottish fair was to see one of Anna's students, who plays in a local pipe and drum group, compete with her group. She's the young girl with the ponytail in the center playing drums. I also happened to meet the guy on the end on the left at my wood badge training the weekend before. So that was kind of cool to actually know people in one of the bands.
There were also some bouncy type slides and such at the fair this year. You had to buy tickets to go on them, but the kids had been so good, we bought some tickets and let them choose a couple to go on. Here is Liam as he finishes coming down a tall slide.
And Duncan too. Jennan and Tegan were both knocked out by this time. We did this at the end of our day at the fair.
It was a fun time at the Scottish fair.
7 comments:
so jennan IS left handed? i remember their being some talk about it but you guys weren't sure yet.
sara
p.s. love the picture of liam and duncan arm in arm. isn't so nice to see kids loving each other without being forced to?
Yep, Jennan is a lefty. It's official.
Someday I will go to the scottish fair again. Did you get the shortbread?!? I love your beautiful wonderful kids.
Looks like a fun day. When you guys visit at our house we can do archery!
if jennan is officially left handed, then she is also officially AWESOME!! (like me)
Thanks for sharing your day, it was great to see all the pictures. Dad wants to know where is the picture of Anna shooting the bow and arrows?
Kristi: I saw the shortbread booth, but we didn't stop. The boys couldn't have any anyways.
JN: We might just have to do that.
Kim: Jennan's always been awesome.
Mom: Nope, Anna didn't pick up any bows or arrows. She was too busy (and content) taking pictures.
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