1890s Days in Ringgold

Today was the 35th annual occurrence of 1890s Days in Ringgold, GA. We went but didn't get to enjoy it too much cause the kids were all grouchy grumps... They wanted to go to the parade, which was at 11 this morning, and we actually made it, barely. So they did enjoy that part, racked up on some candy :). But we have a real hard time going to sleep at night, so 11 a.m. is really early for us to have to be somewhere. I told the kids last night that they needed to go to bed since we had to get up at 9, in order to have breakfast and be out of the house in time to walk into town to see the parade. They did go to their beds, just not to sleep. So when it was time to go today, they were all grumpy grouches (:P) and didn't really enjoy it much. The twins did some of the inflatables. And they all checked out a fire truck and we took some pics of the kids in the cab of the truck. Then we got a funnel cake to share and each got a sno-cone. Sadly the sno-cones weren't that good, the kids were all disappointed that they had spent $2 each on them... After this we went and looked at the car exhibit, my oldest perked up here and started snapping pics of all the cars. The kids all debated over which car they thought was the oldest and which ones were the best ~ relative to them that is :). Then we started heading back towards home, with a stop to watch a clogging team do their thing and a dance academy that had some girls we know in it. They all did excellent jobs of course. So now we are back home and kids are spread throughout the house playing various games or drawing...