Maifest

So last weekend our little town celebrated Maifest. I have lived here for 10 years and Maifest is still a mystery to me. The locals like to say it is a "celebration of the youth" but I am still trying to figure it out.

The way it works is that there is a junior king and queen (I think an 8 year old) and a senior king and queen (an actual high school senior). There is a junior parade and coronation and a senior parade and coronation. There is also a carnival for about 3 days, a big festival on Saturday with a biergardten (is that how you even spell it??), and a bunch of other hoopla. Basically the whole town shuts down for this celebration.

This year was the 118th Maifest and Matt was asked to participate in the senior Maifest (the king is a band student). So he and his girls Leah and Baillee were snorkelers. Oh that's the other thing, there is a theme and the kids are assigned parts and costumes.

Aren't they cute?!?After the parade we went to the carnival or Six Flags as Matt liked to say.

Yeah, I guess I can see why he thought he was at Six Flags. The fence, the grass and random tree, the big power box...

Doesn't he look thrilled? I think he figured out he's not at Six Flags...

But in the end, all he cared about was the free swing. If you know anything about my son, you know he LOVES to swing.

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for the encouragement!!