The Triumphant Return of Rides To The St. James Festival
Our family (including Auntie Felice) went to the St. James Festival this weekend. This is the first year that the church has brought in carnival rides for a while. There was a lawsuit in 2007 between the town and the father of a boy who died falling from a ride, so St. James decided to avoid that altogether. That lasted a couple of years, but turnout is pretty low when your main attractions are bingo and a beer garden.
Local festivals have been our thing this summer, so we took Aiden to try out the newly-reinstated rides. Aiden enjoyed all of the kiddie attractions, but Gavin had a meltdown on the carousel. It was his first time on one of these, and I guess it was too much for him. Felice carried him off pronto and tried to cheer him up. Aiden also tried a whiplash-inducing racecar ride that he really liked.
Once Gavin was cheered up, we started to worry about the weather. It looked like it was going to rain. We ducked into the building to ponder the draw of Bingo and buy up some goodies at the bake sale. We then packed up to go home, but not before a trip down the Fun Slide (Aiden and I have done at a dozen different festivals now) and a turn on the Tilt-A-Whirl. Aiden liked that a lot more than I thought he would!
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