Pennington Crew: ARR!!

This past weekend we went to "Pirates Pack the Park". It was an attempt to set a world record of the most pirates in one place at one time. We did not set a record, but our boys did have a blast. We arrived early to the festival which was very smart because most of the crowd did not start piling in until after lunch. Since it was not crowded we were able to enjoy all the excitement the festival had to offer. There is a crew that travels around the world putting on this festival and they set up camp like actual pirates so you can see how pirates lived. The boys were very interested in learning all the different things about the pirates, but of course their favorite thing was the treasure!!

It is not a festival without the kid section. There were free crafts to do where the boys chose to make flags and pirate boats. There were games and of course bouncy houses and slides. Apparently the new fun thing for festivals are velcro walls. I could not even believe my boys wanted to do this. They put velcro suits on and got flipped upside down sticking to a velcro wall. They probably hung there for a good 3 minutes. I was laughing the whole time!