Festivals & Fishing

We went to the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. There is a free concert every Wednesday. You can bring your own food and wine and just hang out and listen to music. Of course with the kids just sitting and listening to music isn't much of an option. Lucky for us this summer's installation is, "NIKI", and most of the pieces the kids can crawl on, in, or through. Here is Nathan on a seal.


We took the boys fishing last weekend. It was really hot in the morning (82 by 9 a.m.) and they didn't catch anything. Charles felt bad so we tried again in the evening, but still no luck. We did however see lots of snakes, some turtles, geese, ducks, a heron, minnows, and some tadpoles. So it wasn't a total bust. Here are a couple pictures of the boys.

After fishing we went to the International Horseradish Festival in Collinsville, IL. Did you know that 60% of the world's horseradish is produced in Collinsville, IL? Neither did we. There wasn't a lot going on there but Nathan and Samuel got to build boats in the Home Depot Pavilion. Both the boys were also in the 12 and under root sacking contest (with some assistance from Mom). Here is Nathan and Daddy finishing their boat.

Here we are sacking some roots.