Families Start Your Engines!

The weather has been beautiful and the fairs have been a plenty so that means the Connors Clan has been busy having fun! We started Memorial Day Weekend with a trip to the Massachusetts Sheep and Wool Festival. You can read all about that on my knitting blog SpiderWomanKnits as well as see more cute pictures of Jorn and the other two people he lives with ;-)

On Sunday, Jorn and I made our way to the Pittsfield Carnival which was A LOT of fun. Jorn loves the games, the rides, the food, the carni atmosphere...he's a pretty cool guy to hang out with if I do say so myself.

Check him out on the truck ride! Doesn't he look like a trucker? He was really serious about steering I think he would have even downshifted on the hills had he had the option.


After the trucks came the cars. This has been Jorns favorite ride at every fair for the past two years. I have to be sure that I have plenty of tickets because he won't get off the ride unless he goes on two different cars at least. He started driving the bus.


Then switched to the car.

Then, Jorn crossed a threshold. He went on his very first ROLLER COASTER ride and he LOVED it! Check out the video but be sure to let the video "load" first before you play it so it isn't choppy. Jorn is in the second car.


Here he is as the Roller Coaster pulled to a stop. Look at his face. No fear there! I see a lot of trips to Six Flags in our future :-)



After the rides we dined on Carnival Food. Corndogs, Fries, Ice Cream etc. and then headed home. But not before trying a few carnival games. Jorn is a natural at these too! I was amazed he won two prizes and not because "every kids wins" he really won 'em fair and square. There were kids twice his age who couldn't "hook a duck" or catch the flying balls. (Sorry no pictures I was having way too much fun watching him)


After a day filled with rides and fun and food my sufficently stuffed son brought his stuffed turtle and stuffed snake home and took a nice long nap.

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Ok everyone here it goes! YouTube is a service that will host video for you so that we can share our movies with you on the blog. So make sure you read the post below about our trip to the Festival of Celts and then check out the video of Jorn defeating the Invisible Knight! How great is this? Oh...be sure to let the video load completely before you play it so it isn't choppy :-)




Next, Jorn becomes SIR Jorn!

Celtic Festival 2006

Last weekend the Connors Clan headed over to Chatham, NY for the 2006 Festival of Celts. I have to admit that I have been pretty interested in Celtic culture ever since I started reading the Outlander Series this winter. (I am on book three now) This was my kind of fair. We had SO much fun. There is something so intriguing about re-enacters/time travel via recreation. I just love it.

We saw knights


Medieval Clansman


The Redcoats (Blah!)


Traditional Pipers (not sure of the clan)


And Jorn successfully fought off the Invisible Knight


But this guy captivated us the entire time



We just couldn't get enough (pictures) of him. It was like he was a time traveler. It was a beautiful day and a great time was had by all. Next year maybe we'll actually try the Haggis!