Friday, April 28, 2006

International Children's Festival

We took Pete and Sam to the International Children's Festival in Hampton, VA on April 15. It was on our way back from Virginia Beach to home in Northern Virginia.

Some interesting things we saw:

- Pete went to the Japan exhibit, which was fun since he had recently finished his unit on Japan in school. They had a little game where you knock the bottom piece of a stack out with a hammer. The kids were better than the adults at this because you had to hit it hard, even though this seemed counter-intuitive

- We stopped by the South Africa exhibit to see if they recognized dad from his visit last year (no).

- We got some cookies at the Nigeria booth.

- We saw a guy with a monkey who would take quarters from little kids. I think this was in the "Tribute to Ebola" area.

- We saw a mariachi band. They were not affiliated with any particular country, I think they were just included by the festival planners under budget for "random stereotype".

- We also saw some hula dancers at the exhibit stage.

- Pete and Sam won a t-shirt and squeeze bottle at the "we're not a country, but we paid an exhibit fee" booth for Liberty Insurance.

1 comment:

shoshanamom said...

very fun. I took shayna to one very similar at U of Penn one year. they have it every year but I haven't been back...maybe when skyler is older.