ELMO DAYS!

This past weekend we headed down to Carbon County for the annual Elmo Days in the city of Elmo, where Trever’s mother and step father live. We started out at the wave pool in Price. Very fun place, the waves get pretty high. I got my butt kicked a few times by the large waves. Maddy’s tube got flipped several times, she would do back flips. Most little girls would cry and not want to be in the pool, not Maddy. She loved it. She would get out and rest in between the waves, as soon as they were back on she was running back into the pool. Kennedy enjoyed chilling in the water until the waves started, she was just too little and the waves would go right over her, so she had to get out of the pool during the waves. Saturday kicked off with the town breakfast at the park. It’s not the best, but it’s free and edible. It is followed by the parade, which anybody can be in. My nephew walked the parade dressed up as Darth Vader, turned out to be a bad idea. Even though the parade is at 10 am, he ended up with heat stroke from wearing all that black. This is the strangest parade, and never ceases to amaze me. Several years ago somebody was throwing pocket knives, we have been thrown free oil changes, backpacks and this year somebody threw licorice right on to the road. Strange. Maddy got thrown a cheer leader doll, and when the stomach is pressed its sings “We’re number one, cant be number 2 because we are going to beat the whoopee out of you, whoopee out of you”. We have all been singing this annoying song for days now. After the parade, we had a family duel. Our family won free dinner. Then there are games in the park for the kids, it was my in law’s turn to run the games this year so I ran the game where kids race to pick up as many marbles with their feet in a pool of ice as they can in one minute. This is a very strange town, but Elmo days always ends up being very fun. The kids really enjoy it. Most all of Trever’s family including step family come down, and everybody puts up tents in the yard. This year his mother had 9 tents in her yard. Minus the bug bites, heat exhaustion and driving 250 miles it was a fun weekend.