Fun Fest

Once a year, Hermiston has something called Fun Fest.  We have never been before but didn't have anything else to do on this Saturday.  There was a bunch of booths of fun things for kids (with boring informational paper flyers for the grown ups).  The girls had a good time.  And it was, thankfully, not too hot in the morning.

We started off by playing in the huge obstacle course bounce house.

Rachel struggled at first (Megan was too little to even try), but Whitney got the hang of it pretty quick and showed Rachel what to do.

There is Whitney at the top of the steps, about to go down the slide.  We stayed here at the bounce house place for a long, long time.

At another booth, trying to hit the target.  The girls were notoriously bad at this.  It was funny to watch.

Megan tries her hand at golfing.  That was interesting as she slowly maneuvered the ball to wherever she wanted.  The hole was just for decoration.

Inside the "magic" school bus.

This one was kind of cool.  Air came out of the front to make the ball levitate a bit. Then you could hit it. Whitney thought it was neat; Rachel didn't get it.  She kept holding the ball all confused.

OMSI brought a big exhibit for the Fun Fest.  Here the kids are watching a show about the animals that were brought. Snakes aren't my thing, but it was interesting to learn more about them.

Megan looks at the iguana (lizard, gecko, something like that).

There were lots of puzzle things for the kids to try to figure out.  They were too advanced for the girls but Will seemed proud of himself for figuring out most of the puzzles.

Megan liked feeling everything on the feeling table.  There were different animal skins and shells and rocks and animal teeth that the kids were allowed to touch.

The spinning wheel that changes colors.  Your mind sees green when it was really blue and yellow.

The foot bone connects to the _____ ,'what' bone again?  Megan tried very hard to fix this dinosaur.  She put everything in all crazy, but it was fun to watch. 

And we ended our adventure with some free sno cones.  I think the girls had a lot of fun.  And I happened to win a raffle and get a free baby basket.  All in all, a success.  Maybe we will even try to go back next year.