Saturday October 23, 2004
Fall Fest at YMCA camp
We were really looking forward to this event. We ended up leaving after an hour or so because most places they were just too many people and LOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG lines to do ANYTHING. The event was from 3pm – 8 pm. We got there at around 4 pm, waited in a long line for pumkin painting and they ran out of pumpkins. grrrrrrr. The lines were disorganized and insanely long. We got “food tickets” to keep us from getting more than one hot dog, but since there were probably hundreds and hundreds more people there than they were anticipating, it was first come first serve. (I did not need a repeat of the pumpkin episode with a hungry toddler) People were waiting in 45 minute lines to ride on the back of a HumVee (sp?) around a pasture…the “hayrack ride” line had to have at least 200 people in it, and that was just the part of the line I could see. It was totally nuts. We made our way off the beaten trail so we could circumvent the crowd and find our way back to the car and that was the only part of the afternoon we enjoyed. lol. Zane found a HUGE leaf and did not want to let go of it for a while. Finally, he gave it to me to hold for him since the terrain was steep in places, but he kept looking to make sure I still had it.
When we got back into town Zach drove me to the Boeing campus to show me the building he worked in and the cool security stuff he goes through every day. It looked pretty neat. I think he was more excited showing that to us than he was at the fall fest event. Well, at least there were less people. hee hee.
