Fireworks and Chili

Whew, what a busy weekend!
It started out Friday evening
with fireworks. Our fair city
sets off fireworks to celebrate
the opening evening of the
Chili Challenge.

You'll remember that each
year our city has a festival
where everyone can go from
booth to booth and sample
a variety of chili, salsa or
wings. This is where we
spent Saturday afternoon.

The festival mascot with
familiar faces.

There are a TON of booths! If
you lined all of them up, there
are probably two blocks worth
of booths!

This was my favorite booth. It
had a 60's theme as you can
see. Everything was tye-dyed
and their table covering were
record covers. All their team
members were dressed to
match the theme. The sign
below was outside of their
booth.

A great way to spend a Fall
afternoon!

Mr. Ken even met a new friend.
Ha! Ha!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Festival Part 2

Back in July we went to the Great Midwest Balloon Fest. Some of you may remember that last year we dealt with thunderstorms and did not get to see much. This year's event was held at a different venue and earlier in the year. Much better! There were several food vendors, games for the kids, tethered ballon rides, lift offs when weather permitted and at night there was a balloon glow--this is where they blow up the balloons and all together light them up. Great fun and most of it was FREE!!!! Scroll down and check out the fun we had!!!!

Totally Awesome!!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Friends, Food and Fun

This past Saturday we went to the annual "Spinach Festival" held here in Lenexa. The festival celebrates the Belgium heritage of Lenexa residents. They are the first people who raise spinach crops here in Lenexa. So guess what on of the booths sells??? You guessed it right! All kinds of food made with the good ol' green stuff. Spinach pizza, wraps, spinach balls, hot dip and cold dip, Wimpy burgers and they also have a baby pool (cleaned before use) full of spinach salad! There are other vendors selling all sorts of other kinds of yummies. In the pic above, Mr. Ken is finishing a spinach ball. There is a lot too see and do at the festival which takes place in one of our beautiful parks. There are lots of craft tents, activities for the kids by the pond, music on the main stage and lots of fresh air and vitamin D. PS--I lost a pic somewhere. It showed Nancy at one of the tents holding a decoration for Thanksgiving. The gals---Nancy--Acorn Cottage, me and Estelle, Nancy's Mother-in-Law.

Those boys--Mr. Ken and Dan the

Man caught lounging in the shade

while we looked through the tents.

It was a great day to be outside and

spend time with friends.

~Keep on Dreaming~

Out and about in the City

We went here

to see this...

There were a lot of these

Then we heard and saw this...

It was a great day to be

outside and enjoy music

and art.

~Keep on Dreaming~

Spinach Anyone????

On Saturday , Nancy--Acorn Cottage and I headed out for the

25th Annual Lenexa Spinach Festival located in the beautiful

Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park. It was a beautiful day to wander the

park looking at crafts and antiques plus we enjoyed the

food at the food booths. The Spinach Festival celebrates

Lenexa's earliest claim to fame as the "Spinach Capitol of

World" during the 1930's. Belgian farmers grew spinach

and the shipped it out by rail. The festival rolls all of the

history into one big festival sporting "the world's largest

spinach salad, spinach dip, pizza, wraps and balls plus a

variety of other food for festival goers pleasure.

Here we find Popeye and Olive Oyl doing some old-fashioned

pole fishing at the "waterering hole." Wonder if they caught

any??

There are over 100 artand craft booths to look at and one

tent full of antiques!

One of our favorite booth is the one Nancy calls "the Hallo-

ween booth" it also has some Christmas stuff too. It is VERY

hard to make decisions in this delightful place! Can you see

the "pig-tailed pumpkin" on the black table--it's really a

halloween cat complete with a tail. She'a adorable.

Nancy is holding a sweater decorated with Yo-Yo's. NO, not the kind on a string and you walk the dog with it. The kind you make out of fabric. VERY VERY Cute! This booth was huge AND we found out they are opening a store locally! Could be trouble for Nan and me. :)

NOW--the mystery of the day. Is this man's hair real ?

We had a great time and are looking forward to next year!!

~Keep on Dreaming~