We took a short trip to Upstate NY (a little town called Altamont near Albany) for an Irish music festival featuring two of our favorite bands - neither of the bands are Irish, per se... One is Carbon Leaf (from Richmond, VA) and the other is Great Big Sea (from the tropical island of Newfoundland). We all had a fantastic time, but since we were so busy enjoying ourselves (and keeping an eye on Zara, running and dancing around in a crowd of hundreds) we took very few pictures of the festival itself.
Highlights for Zara included a petting zoo (and she did not stick her hand in the donkey's mouth - she even told the donkey 'no donkey, don't bite my hand!), a little carnival style train ride, participating in a céilidh dance, and watching irish step dancing (soft and hard shoe). She had great fun sitting on our shoulders watching the bands, but was often happier dancing and jumping on the ground, where she couldn't see a thing. I think she's still not sure why we were so intent on looking at the stage and watching people play - music is still something she mostly listens to, I think. She sang along to many of the songs while on shoulders, and was really getting into clapping along and fist pumping a la Alan Doyle.
But what I actually did take pictures of was this little park we stopped to play in before we hit the road back to VA on Sunday morning. Here is Zara showing what a big kid she is on something that reminded me of the high ropes course (only very low) and a twisty balance beam.
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