Another Day, Another Car Show

Our weekend was jam-packed. We went to my cousin, Elisabeth's ballet show on Friday night. I enjoyed myself very much and thought the show was very nicely done. The choreography was very visually interesting. Elisabeth looked so graceful and beautiful during her parts. I wish I could move like that! I do love going to the ballet and her show did not disappoint. I forgot my camera, however (darn it!) so I don't have any pictures.

We got up Saturday to drive to Louisville to another car show. This one was larger than the one in Columbus. In case you didn't notice the weather on Saturday. It was hot. I mean hot. Did I say hot...because I mean it was unbearably, undeniably, miserably HOT! The car temperature thing read 108 degrees when we left the show in the afternoon. Luckily there was a good portion of the show that was indoors (the midway) so we spent most of the day in there.

When we got there, Phillip and Archie were hungry, so we had a cement picnic. Here's a picture:

Of course, it was directly after this, while we were looking for the bathroom, that we found the nice, indoors (where it was cool) place to eat that had more than just crummy pizza. Oh well...

We took a look around the midway, where all the vendors were selling all their car stuff. We tried out some new car seats, mostly 'cause we were tired of walking.

Morgan and I took our turn in the seats.

We went outside and checked out the cars. There were a lot of cars. I liked the sign on this one:

Apparently, my Aunt Julie was at the car show stealing folks' chairs again. Really, Julie...why didn't you stop and say hi? And don't you have enough chairs already? I mean...how often do you sit in all these chairs? Or are they just on some weird display at your home?

Archie liked the monster trucks a lot. We saw the guy who drives "Grave Digger" signing autographs, although I wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a line up, had it not been for the large sign saying he was the "Grave Digger" driver. There was a "Superman" monster truck there, and I thought it only appropriate to get my picture made in front of it, as I was wearing my souvenir from Metropolis...my Official Superman Shirt from the Superman museum.

Toward the end of the day, we checked out the swap meet. It was pretty cool. I've learned that you can find ANYTHING at a swap meet. There were some tomatoes selling for 50 cents, a diver's helmet...you know those old huge round ones with the round window in the front to see out of, lots and lots of rusty metal, old gas pumps, etc. etc. etc. I wanted to buy the diver's helmet, because I saw the very same one at the last swap meet we went to. I'm sure it was the same guy selling...Perhaps I'll see it at the next one. If I see it, I'll know I am destined to have it.

I saw some vehicles made out of junk in the yard, which I guess proves that you actually CAN make something out of all the rusty metal. Here's one:

You can't read it in the picture very well, but it says "Mother-in-law Removal Service" and the back has a wooden trunk with these legs sticking out which kick when the truck goes. No worries, Linda...I don't feel I really need a Mother-in-law removal service! I just thought it was a goofy concept! There were a bunch of other cars made out of junk...like using old beer cans and other weird stuff.

We had a nice time, but the walk all the way back to the car was just awful! It was miserable out there and we were all exhausted from walking around all day. When we got within "seeing distance" of the car, Phillip asked Archie if he wanted to race. Archie ran for a few feet, then almost began crying saying, "It's okay if you win, Daddy...I just can't run anymore!"

We made it back around 8 pm and I think we were all properly exhausted. I did absolutely nothing on Sunday. I watched some of the Alias episodes I got from the library, and generally sat around. I guess the only productive thing I did was to cook breakfast and dinner. But that's okay...a lazy day every now and then is nice.