Fish Festival

 On Sunday, June 15, we went to a fish festival.  We didn't do much of the 'fish' part, but we definitely took some pictures and had a great time with Emerson!

He spotted the ice cream truck and asked for a snow cone. 

He wanted to sit down to eat it.

We sat on a curb for AT LEAST an hour while he totally consumed it.  I was surprised that he didn't get any of it on him...not on his clothes, not on him!  We sat and watched the amazing variety of people walk by. 

 Then it was time to walk around awhile...after a bathroom stop.

 There's a historical lighthouse that overlooks the bay...and it's beautiful...the lighthouse and the setting of it.  This bell...which I did NOT read about, is next to it. Papa took our picture.  Emerson was impressed with how huge it was. 

"It's bigger than ME!"

 From the lighthouse, there is a trail of steps down to a beach.  We started down...and got about halfway when this aging Mimi's knee started to H-U-R-T.  So we stopped and enjoyed the scenery from there.  Papa got trigger happy with the camera!

I'm glad he did:)

 Then it was my turn!

 I love these!

 

We then headed down to walk on the pier.  We got about halfway down when our little man decided he didn't want to go to the pier.  

We headed back up...

 Emerson wanted to head back down to the beach.  I told him I didn't think I could do it so he told me to take some pictures and some video of him going down the stairs. 

I started with some pictures...

 See that bench down there?  That's where we were when we took the earlier pictures.

Emerson asked if I was taking video.

I wasn't, so I started.

I'm an obedient Mimi :)

Yep, we didn't have the fish at the fish festival, but we had a great time hanging out with Emerson!

Bowling

 Saturday morning, Emerson and I were playing Boggle Jr.  The word he was spelling was 'bowl.'  There was just a picture of a regular bowl...but for some reason, I asked him if he'd ever been bowling.

"No, but I've always wanted to try," was his answer.

So, seeing as you're reading this blog, you can guess what we did! 

 We went out to eat Mexican food...and then headed out for a night of bowling.  We had two lanes.

 Emerson had his own lane with bumper pads in the gutters...

 The management brought him the orange ball to use.  The finger holes were a bit too far apart for him to hold it like a true bowler!  But he did take advantage of the air coming out to get his hands ready!

 He was just so cute up there bowling!

 Papa was the champion...both games!

 Aren't these cute?  We were getting our shoes, and I asked Emerson to hand me one of the shoes he was wearing so I could see what size they were.  He told me he KNEW he wore a size 11.

Well, that's what we got, but the shoes he had on were a size 13!  He insisted the bowling shoes fit.

 He was loving this new sport!  After game 1, he requested we play another game!

 Game 2!

 Emerson was trying to figure out the scoring...and he pretty much did.  He filled in some of the numbers...and would tell me what the score was!

Yep, we had a grand time at the bowling alley!