Since the team lost on Friday and Coach decided not to go scouting, we actually were able to have a rare family day during football season. Coach had to go to school in the morning to help with a Youth Flag Football league sign up. He was nice enough to take the Babes with him. I stayed up and did a little bit of cleaning and was also able to watch an episode of Dowton Abbey! All the ladies at school are really into Dowton and I knew that I would be too...but I hadn't been able to sit down and watch a single episode. WOW! What I have been missing this whole time!! I love it...obviously!! Anyway...after Coach and the Babes got back and we took care of the poocher we headed to Eastport for the Pirate Festival!! What a blast!!
Drove around for a bit and finally got a good parking spot on the pier. This is what was parked on the other side of the pier! The whole town was ready to party...there were Pirates everywhere! Kids dressed up as pirates and even dogs dressed up as pirates.
We made our way down Main Street and there were tons of vendors all about. We all were starving so we got on line for the chicken tenders and ruffle fries. You need to have the ruffle fries at a fair sometime in the very near future. They are cut like potato chips and fried...they are SO good. This particular vendor made some delish chicken tenders too. They were breaded in a nice light breading and then fried...they were sort of like the tenders I make at home with Shake and Bake. They were not a heavy breaded and fried food. Good eats!
The highlight of the day was the Parade! There were so many floats and pirates. The Babes was loving it. She didn't fully understand what was going on, but she loved all the noise and fun stuff to look at. She was really excited to see and pet all the poochers on the street.
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| Funny Pirate! |
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| The gold! |
This guy was great! He was one of the first pirates in the parade. He was happy to pose for a picture. The fun thing is that all the pirates were really into it...they spoke in that funky pirate lingo. I asked if he wouldn't mind if I took a picture for my blog. He said, "Arrrr...what's a blog? Is what you are speaking of like a grog?" He held up his stein and stood there for the pic. After he gave me a piece of pirate gold!
The Travel Channel was there. I spoke with the woman that looked like she was in charge of the whole deal. They had a couple camera men and they were all over the place. She said that the Travel Channel was doing a new show called The End of the Earth ( I think). Fun stuff!! After the parade we walked around for a bit and grabbed some ice cream on the way out of town.
The Babes favorite part of the day was meeting this guy...what a big sweetie. He was the sweetest Newfie and was so happy to be hugged and kissed by a 2 year old! His owner was a really nice lady that was also more then happy to allow the Babes to hang out. I have to say, everyone in Eastport was having a good time and very welcoming! We definitely will go back next year. We even talked about maybe getting a room and spending the night...maybe we'll get a babysitter though! The salty dogs really come out at night!
Just wanted to include one last very enthusiastic couple we saw on the streets of the Pirate Fest. Their clothing was spot on and the guy even had false gross teeth! They were happy to pose for the shot...really nice folks!
It was really nice to spend the day with Coach and the Babes. Days like this are few and far between during the season. We really don't get to have a whole day together. Our student that is staying with us decided to stay home and enjoy sleeping in. I can't say that I blame him, but it was really nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine and Pirates!
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