Birthday Fun, Part One

Last evening for Josiah's birthday, we changed our initial plan of going out to eat and instead headed for a local lawn party. I don't know how prevalent lawn parties are in other states; but in my state, every little podunk town has a lawn party at some point during the summer, so it seems. Lawn parties are like a carnival--fattening food, thrilling rides (thrilling, if for no other reason than the fact that they're probably a whole lot more dangerous than rides at an amusement park...after all, if they take those rides down and travel across several states with them and then set them up again every few days, isn't there a good chance some important screw might have come loose???), rip-off games that look so easy but never let you win, country music, and usually people you know--which seems to be the biggest reason people go--that, and the fact that it's a fundraiser for some good organization. At any rate, I love lawn parties...so I'm poking fun at myself if I'm poking at anyone! Lawn parties do seem to bring out the redneck side of the population though. :)

Yesterday afternoon Jeff heard from one of the other barbers at his shop that there was a lawn party in a town a bit south of us, so we suggested to Josiah that we go there to celebrate his birthday...and he was delighted! The weather forecast called for thunderstorms, and it was actually raining as we drove down the road and parked. We found a table under a big tent--the bingo tent--and Jeff dodged raindrops to get us some food which he brought back to us. As we finished eating, the boys ended up playing a little bingo--25 cents a game--which to us, seemed like a great price for a seat at a table out of the rain!

After a little while, the rain stopped, and we left the tent to go explore the rest of the lawn party. More in the next post...

~ Josiah studiously helping Jeff find the numbers
~ "hmm, this looks interesting!"
~ "I think I'll play, too! just wish I knew how to say 'bingo' in case I win"