Ostrich Festival 2017

As has become tradition, we met up with Vince, Staci and the girls at the Ostrich Festival on Sunday morning bright and early in an attempt to beat the crowds and the heat. We beat neither. The two big girls, Natalie and Maddie (affectionately known as Nat and Mad) were thrilled to have each other to ride most of the rides together. The two littles, Eloise and Camilla (in their language, Edoweeez and Milla), were just happy to be there. Most of the time.

The combination of her shoes and her hat officially made Natalie measure in at 50 inches, which is tall enough not to have to ride the baby rides, but not quite tall enough for some of the grown up rides. Eloise was confined to the baby rides (rightfully so). But the big sisters were wonderful about being big sisters and finding rides that they could ride WITH their little sisters. Mom and Dad were thrilled about this because we didn't really have to ride any rides.

 

Big girls in line to ride the worm rollercoaster, which went really well until Nat lost her hat. Luckily, the very nice man working the ride jumped down into the middle of the ride to fetch it for her.

The big girls both won bats... and asked Eloise to hold them while they went on rides. As you may imagine, she was happy to be able to help.

"Hey Scott, why don't you stand right over there for a minute?"

The dads convinced the big girls to ride a "super scary" ride by offering to ride with them. There were many smiles both during and after the ride.

And for our final ride of the day, the little kid merry-go-around. Eloise still talks about how she rode on a BIIIIIIIIG horsey and Natalie rode on a little one.

A few super giant corn dogs on the way out and these kids and mom/dad were both ready for a nap. Unfortunately, only Eloise was able to actually take a nap once we got home.