Pecan Festival in Pictures

Saturday's Pecan Festival - the Second Annual, I might add - was another good success; we are grateful to all the folks who worked hard to put it together and pull it off. Here are several pictures to share the event, though I didn't get photos of everything.

The Mister was the MC, and he dressed in the Gilbert Days theme (which was actually his everyday clothes back when he was farming):



He encouraged a tug of war between the "under-25" crowd and the "over-25" crowd, and I was worried that they might be too rough on the younger folks:



I needn't have worried; the older guys ended up on the ground:



What would an event like this be without a sack race?


And clowns to make balloon sculptures for the kids...

And every party needs a couple of bouncy toys:


One innovative project was building with PVC pipe:


And there were hula hoops for the trying. This young lady had no problems keeping her hula hooping; she nonchalantly ate her entire snow cone and checked out the rest of the park, never missing a beat:


My favorite event of the day was the bike parade. There was an area roped off to decorate the bikes, with every imaginable decoration item, including empty pop cans to pull along behind. The grownups got pretty excited about this, probably because it reminded us of our own youth:

After lots of decorating, eating pizza, snow cones, cookies and cake, taking a break for some bouncing or sliding, and some more last minute decorating, the time came to show off the bikes:

Riders of all sizes participated:


Everybody loves an audience, and when you're showing off your decorations, sometimes slow is better than fast:


The weather was perfect, the neighbors were friendly, the raffle prizes were great, the food was tasty, and oh yeah; if memory serves, there were 398 pecans in the jar.