Coast Guard Celebration and Pirate Week

These past 2 weeks have been really busy! Two weeks ago was a festival that is held every year to honor the Coast Guard. It was a lot of fun and goes for a whole week. We had a kid's parade where B. had a 5 gallon pail of candy dumped in front of her and the other surrounding kids. Let's just say, we have enough candy for a very, very, very long time.

Then we got to see the Coast Guard ships come sailing into the harbor. One of the Coast Guard ships was from Canada.


Then we went to the Coast Guard parade and that evening was the fireworks. The fireworks were amazing. They were as good as Chicago's 4th of July Fireworks.

This past week was Pirate week. The local library put on pirate stuff for the kids all week long and then there was a Pirate festival in a local park this past Saturday and Sunday.
B. got to hear lots of pirates stories, make a craft and even sword fight...don' t worry they were foam swords. She was talking about getting up there to fight the pirates, and when her turn came, she would have none of it. So, she and mommy fought the pirates. On Friday, we had a picnic near the water and watched the pirates came sailing into the harbor.






Today I was looking in our local paper and saw that we are actually in one of the pictures showing the kids listening to the pirate story. Crazy.