Popcorn Festival and other little specials!

The popcorn festival is actually old news, but it was fun and I haven't shared about it yet! 

Ahem. The Valparaiso Popcorn Festival (otherwise known as Uncle Fonzie's 28th birthday- Magoo and I are such a good nephew and sister, we called to say an extra special happy birthday) was the weekend after Labor Day, and my hometown always has a grand week to celebrate Orville Redenbacher.

We celebrate with style.

Check out this float.

 Seriously. Who else has an enormous cow with his own bag of popcorn? Obviously no one!! May I present to you the largest bovine of my childhood, the Kelsey's steakhouse cow!!

Aaaaaannnndd....

Can't forget the Shriners! Those red fezzed (fizzed? fi-ed?) daredevils with their little speedsters! A popcorn parade must.

Magoo and I didn't quite make it through the parade before it got to be a little taxing- I'd say we were one third to halfway through when we gave up and hoofed it back to the shuttle stop.

Do you see this kid??! I mean, seriously. Isn't he just the bees knees?? Sometimes he's so cute I think my brain might pop!

Here's another exciting bit of the popcorn fest- (this was the 45-minute-shrunken-to-the-attention-span-of-a-1.5-year-old-without-TOO-much-stimulation-cause-I-didn't-want-him-to-wig-out-on-anyone version) we rode on a big yellow school bus to get between our car and the fest! Magoo thought it was just the neatest thing. Check out the chops on that face!

We had a pretty good time on our little weekend jaunt- Magoo loved the parade and I had so much fun with him! We also were able to see great-grandparents, aunts, my uncle and cousins, and some friends. Oh, and we checked out a Harley Davidson motorcycle showroom- cool bikes, dude! Magoo was pretty fascinated by them. :)

Oh, you know, just hanging out at Harley Davidson, taking a break from checking out all of the dazzling motorcycles!