Buskerfest

Last Friday night we all went downtown to a new festival. It celebrated street performers, and I thought it was a really cool concept. Everything from belly-dancers to mimes were there. There was a main act going on the whole time that constantly switched about every 10 minutes or so. There was even trapeze acts!
We walked around quite a bit and there were quite a few "side acts" such as this giraffe on stilts. Ella was so cute craning her neck to look up as high as she could at him. There was also a "living statue" there which we all enjoyed. He was very good at standing very still but yet still engaging with the crowd. He was holding a boot that was constantly pouring water out as a prop. All the kids there were enjoying that. At one point he even bent down and blew Ella a kiss. Too cute.

There is a pizza place right downtown that we have always wanted to try called "Toscani's." We decided to go try it out since we were so close. Of course we had to wait longer than normal due to the crowd from the festival, but it was worth the wait!! We tried the pizza and a sausage roll, and they were excellent. I would definitely recommend trying it out if you've never been there. And, they're kid-friendly too. They give you crayons to color on the table cloth and if you ask, they give the kids pizza dough to play with! How cool is that? I think I was more infatuated with that than Ella. I know that's hard to believe......:) All in all, it was a great night. Pretty cool to do things like that in your own town.