Dixie Escalante Kite Festival

April 17th was the annual Dixie Escalante Kite Festival. Russell had to go volunteer for the EMS so we made a day out of it. We even bought a kite!

There were so many people at the festival. I had only been to the festival once before in high school so I didn't really know what to expect. First we we walked around all of the booths and all of the vendors tried to sucker us into everything they were selling. The Living Scripture guy was the worst. All we wanted was our free movie and he wanted to sign us up for an eternal contract with them. After his half hour speech, we kindly declined and took our free movie. The guy was pretty mad but oh well!

Emily's favorite booth was the balloon animals. She loved her dogie balloon.

We even got Emily's face painted. Surprisingly, the flower stayed all day. I think it was because Emily couldn't see it!

And of course we flew our kite. or at least tried to. There was absolutely no wind so it was hard to fly the kite. Here is Emily trying to fly the kite. She was so cute, she would run so fast dragging the kite behind her.

Russell was able to get it up in the air for a little while which made Emily jump up and down with excitement!

Then I tried my hand at it. I had about as much luck as Emily!

While we were flying our kite, Emily saw the cow train driving around and she had to have a ride so I took her on it. She loved it! She kept yelling "WEEE!" It was fun except for the fact that the carts were made for kids not me! It was a little tight.

Here we are on the ride. Wave at Dad, Emily.

After a fun, hot day at the festival, we enjoyed a good treat of Otter Pops, Emily's favorite!