Roanoke Go Outside Festival

Roanoke Go Outside Festival is a new name for the outdoor festival that we went to last year, and we returned again because it's great (free!) fun for the boys.

 My favorite thing was the pool jumping dogs.  I think our border collie would've enjoyed this.  He likes water.  We watched the pool jumping dogs for quite a while.  Next time we'll have to take Scooter, so he can have a chance.  GoFest is very dog-friendly.

The boys did the slacklines again this year.  It's still pretty tricky for them to stay up for more than 1 second without holding someone's hand.

Pierce made a first aid kit.  Then the rest of the day he asked if anyone was bleeding or hurt.  He really wanted the opportunity to bandage us up. 

The boys went downriver....in their minds, anyhow.

Perhaps one day they'll go downriver on water.

These are sumo wrestling tubes.  Like a redneck version of sumo wrestling - you each wear these tubes and then tackle each other.  As much as Paul and I wanted to sumo tube wrestle each other, the line was sadly too long.

Pierce rode the bull.  He did great - he hung on for quite a long while!  He was nervous about trying it, but I think he had fun.

Well, you know if big brother does it, littlest brother has to give bull riding a shot too.

And you know if littlest brother rides a bull, you can be sure that the middle brother is going to get up there too. 

After that, Pierce rode through the bike maze.  He was a little top heavy.  When you're a little top heavy, it makes negotiating corners kind of tricky.

But he sure had a good time.  As we all did!

I can't wait to see what they come up with for next year!