Festival and Falls

Thursday evening, my girls and I joined 2 of my friends and their daughters to go to the Violet festival, a local annual event that has carnival rides, games, food and live music. Thursday was The River night (a local christian radio station) at the festival and they were featuring Mark Schults. Best of all, the concert was FREE!! I just love Mark Schults...and free stuff!

We got there around 7:00 and set up our lawn chairs to save our place for the concert then wondered around a while. We saw practically everyone from our church there. We bought some tickets and rode some rides. Here is a pic of the girls on the swings (mine are the one in the middle of the pic and the one 2 to the right of her):



Here is the big slide they went on:



And here is a not so great pic of Mark Schultz on the stage (keep in mind these were all taken with my camera phone, so you don't get the best quality!):



(And of course you all know to click the picture to see it bigger!)

While Mark was singing, my younger daughter said to me "he sounds just like the guy on the radio." To which of course I replied, "he is the guy on the radio." She then gave me a shocked expression, wide eyes, mouth open, the whole nine yards and said "Serious?" Too cute!!

As for tomorrow, my hubby and I decided to go ahead and take our trip to Niagara Falls since my granddad is doing so much better. We will be leaving tomorrow morning. We are all really excited. This is the first real family vacation we have taken since my now 5 year old was 7 months old. We are only staying 2 nights at the falls and heading back on Tuesday sometime. We will probably spend most of Tuesday touring and then spend the night somewhere on the way back and come the rest of the way home on Wednesday.