Norm & I spent the day walking around down town Fredericksburg today, to see the Heritage Festival. First, we wanted to get a good parking spot, so we parked at the train station - The best kept secret I assure you. We take a look at the train station, since Norm is big into trains, both real and model. He has never explored the Fredericksburg train station so I indulged him just a little.
We even got lucky and saw two trains go thru. One was a passenger train heading North and the other was a freight train, CSX, heading South. Norm took some video, but I am not posting those, so you will have to go to his blog to see those (http://trainfanatic.blogspot.com/
We missed the Fredericksburg 'parade'. In fact we saw the tail end of it. I am guessing anyone can be in it. All you do is dress up in red, white, and blue and march down the street. We saw kids on bikes, on pogo sticks, and being pulled along in wagons that were all decorated. Parents were walking in front of the wagons & behind the 'bikers' waving American flags. It was a small parade, but fun for those who participated in it.
We started walking down town since that is where the Festival was supposed to begin. I ran into this nice lady on the way. She says she dresses up every 4th and just walks around down town. She was so sweet. I loved her costume.
As we walked around, we saw others that were dressed for the occasion. We love this small town and the history here. This was in front of a little shop/museum that sells t-shirts and cap guns for the kids to play with. Our girls came in to town to join us and it was nice to have them walk around with us.
There was a car show which was so cool. This reminded us of our good friends that moved away to Mexico, the Richardsons. Our thoughts were with you as we looked at all the cool cars. We miss you guys!!
While at the Festival we got to see a small preview of the show Footloose. It is playing at the Riverside Dinner Theater in our town. What a great and talented group of kids. I am proud to say we know one of these young men. Greg Olsen is in our ward. It was fun to see him perform.
Greg is the blonde one. :) They all did a great job!! I can't wait to see them in the theater.
After our snip-it of the show, we continued to walk around looking at the vendors. I loved all the bling there. However, I showed a lot of restraint & didn't get any bling. ;o) Overall we had a great day. It was nice just hanging with my Husband and my Girls.
