Labor Day Fun

Like many, I was excited to see the return of Lodi's Field and Fair Day, now being called Labor Day Lodi.  I have a lot of fun memories from going each year growing up... mostly relating to the early morning rising and seeing the hot air balloons take shape and take flight.  Field and Fair Day was also where I first saw Lodi High's Drill Team perform, and always thought that was something I wanted to do when I got to High School.  Good memories.

Though the Hot Air Balloon wasn't widely publicized this year, I heard from a friend that they were in fact doing it, and decided the morning of the event that I would wake the kids early and take them in pjs by myself to see it, as Jimmy had left the night before for an annual produce conference in Hong Kong.   They were groggy and quiet most of the time, but did enjoy watching how big the balloon got and seeing it take off, despite the few sprinkles that were falling during it all.  

Activities and games didn't start until 10:00 so we headed home for breakfast and returned later.  Caleb loved being in the bounce house - at first with only one other child, then soon there were probably as many as a dozen kids in there an no one controlling it!  

While Caleb jumped in the bounce house, Landon had his own fun bouncing on part of the inflatable obstacle course... (Video below, or click here)

Caleb took a shot at throwing balls at the dunk tank... As you can see she didn't want to get wet, and lucky for her, the tank arm seemed to be overly tight because though one of Caleb's throws and one of my mom's throws hit it, it still wasn't enough to put her in.  Not-so-lucky-for-her, my mom ran up and pushed the arm to get her wet.  Good example Nonni.  :-P

Since the boys are familiar with the WOW Science Museum (we go there to play about once a week), Caleb enjoyed watching their exciting science experiments demonstrations.

Landon was a little overwhelmed, but he warmed up afterwards when he heard the Bon Jovi (?) tribute hair band playing music and started rockin' out... (Video below, or click here):

A fun day overall despite the strange humidity and intermittent sprinkles!