Crafting and Hempfest

We have a few events to give an update on.  First of all, Abigail made a delicious supper of Shrimp scampi and Caprisi salad (the mozzarella tasted like sharp cheddar for some reason).  We took the food as a picnic to the Sacajawea park just across the street and also dressed up in some pretty awesome outfits!  

This is my cool wife

This is me lounging with Thai mat and mahlong

We also did a little crafting.  We covered balloons in lace and yarn respectively.  They were coated with a glue solution and when the dried.... 

And this one became a lamp cover!

Notice the dried flowers - an anniversary gift from Philip and Betsy  

The Hempfest went down on Saturday.  Just so you know, it was based on a movement to legalize industrial hemp.  Here is a website with incredible facts about Hemp: http://www.globalhemp.com/1997/10/north-american-industrial-hemp-council-industrial-hemp-facts-sheet.html

Self-explanatory

Take note:  These "Autism blankets" were sold at the Hempfest.  Not sure what the connection is.

We are the poster children for legalizing industrial Hemp.
No! we are not high because marijuana and hemp are not the  same thing.
It would be like comparing sweet corn to field corn or something like that.

And these people are just a leeetle more hardcore than us

Germanfest!!!  Here are some pictures of the chicken dance, German alpenhorns, and old guys sitting around in their lederhosen(?) and drinking out of their expensive steins.  They had a full band and one of the information tables had a German scrabble game going on in which I played "DIETRICH", one of the only German words I know.