Saturday drove to Alma for the Highland Festival. My favorite part was the kilted people buying lunch -- from the people selling Polish Sausages, Italian Beef, Gyros, Fajitas, and other ethnic fare. Happily, the longest lines were at the booths selling traditional fish & chips and meat pies. I had a scone covered with fresh strawberries and whipped cream -- Yum!
After we left the Highland Festival, we continued north to
After dinner we talked for a bit, then I got out my knitting. We watched a Mrs. Bradley mystery on DVD while I worked on a Jayne hat and
Sunday we went to an art fair. I saw some nice jewelry and a few bird feeders that appealed to me, but I wasn't truly tempted until I met the Russian physics professor who carves wood in his spare time. I purchased a tiny hand-crafted box from him and I'm just delighted with the piece.
After the art show we went to Walmart to buy a seedless cucumber for
Today we had to get up at 8:00 in order to arrive in Byron in time for the Memorial Day parade. We made it with ten minutes to spare and I found where our family was standing. I joined them until the parade was about to start, then moved forward to take photos. After the parade we went to
We left Byron in mid-afternoon and drove straight home. After we unpacked the car and I took a quick shower, I started a load of laundry, downloaded photos from my camera, and caught up on LJ. Skip=120; took a while to work back that far and I haven't actually read any of the tabs I opened for posts with lj cuts or that I want to read the comments on.