Festival of Books

The university here in town was the site for a HUGE book festival today. I've never seen anything like it! There were book stores and book publishers, as well as all kinds of businesses that sponsored booths. There were hundreds of them and it was all free with free parking on campus.

There was a big children's section with read alouds, crafts galore, musical performances, drawing, writing, Braille, stamps, balloon animals, face painting and other things that I can't even remember. We spent about four hours there and the girls had a blast. I dig this kind of thing anyway, and even dh enjoyed himself. The weather was clear and sunny with a slight breeze and temperatures in the mid 70s. It was absolutely perfect.

Here they are at a cooking booth. They mixed chocolate pudding, crushed cookies, and marshmallows together. Who wouldn't like that?
While the other two girls and I listened to Chris Gall read two of his children's books and draw some extemporaneous pictures, S and dh waited forever so S could have her face painted. I think it turned out really pretty.I had to laugh because all the girls were so excited to see the characters who were roaming around the festival and I'm sure they have NO IDEA who the Hamburglar and the purple blobby thing even are!This was on our way back to the car. Doesn't it look like they had fun?