Just about to sit down to dinner on July 2 and notice an article on azcentral about Mesa's Freedom Festival that night. Many, many activites, including ... Barney sing-a-long.
This changed our plans. The kids are REALLY into Barney right now, and ask to watch Barney ALL. THE. TIME. This sing-a-long was free, whereas the actual Barney stage show coming in August was like $20 bucks a ticket. So we scarfed our dinner, got dressed in our patriotic clothes, and headed off.
Red, white and blue hooligansWe buzzed off to downtown Mesa, found parking, and walked into the Mesa Arts Center at 7:29. Right on time! We were ushered into the theater, sat down, and before you know it...
There he was. The Big Purple Dinosaur himself, singing and dancing for about 20 minutes. Our kids were ENTHRALLED.
Little girl gettin' into the show
It was well worth going to, even though that day's high temperature was 118! Since we were down there we decided to check out the Festival. The kids played in a bounce house (well, the boys played. Audrey said, "No, Dad. I'm too scared.") and we wandered around seeing all the booths, exhibits, and people. Sorry for all the blurry low-quality cell phone pics.
We ran into Cinderella! (Thanks Susan for taking this pic!!)
Had to stop at one point for some delicious frozen lemonade.We stuck it out until 9:30 - for fireworks!
No tears! No fear! Just enjoyment! (The big bag of kettle corn I bought 'em probably helped.) We had great seats! What a way to celebrate the Fourth!
2 comments:
That looks so fun! We would have totally gone, but it was just so late. I'm a Sleep Dictator.
I think you guys should win the parents of the year award for taking 3 little kids to that...and sitting through it!
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