Heritage Afloat
Another busy few days with the Baynham visitors...
The day started off with Nan and Grandad giving Gareth a 'very' early birthday present of a new bike - they just couldn't wait until November and Gareth certainly didn't mind. He loved it and we couldn't get him off it at the end!
As well as packing in all the usual Easter festivities, there was also a large carnival atmosphere in Toronto this weekend for the annual Heritage Afloat festival - where there were loads of old, beautiful wooden boats on show, as well as entertainment, stalls, fair rides, tanks (!) and great food...
One of the highlights of the festival was a boat race, but the contestants were only given two hours to make their boats before entering the race. I don't know how any of them managed to stay afloat for more than 5 minutes, but after the starting gun was fired (by three musketeers!) the race was on, and it was hilarious with battles raging for the next ten minutes (water bombs, barging and oar bashing).
The day started off with Nan and Grandad giving Gareth a 'very' early birthday present of a new bike - they just couldn't wait until November and Gareth certainly didn't mind. He loved it and we couldn't get him off it at the end!As well as packing in all the usual Easter festivities, there was also a large carnival atmosphere in Toronto this weekend for the annual Heritage Afloat festival - where there were loads of old, beautiful wooden boats on show, as well as entertainment, stalls, fair rides, tanks (!) and great food...
One of the highlights of the festival was a boat race, but the contestants were only given two hours to make their boats before entering the race. I don't know how any of them managed to stay afloat for more than 5 minutes, but after the starting gun was fired (by three musketeers!) the race was on, and it was hilarious with battles raging for the next ten minutes (water bombs, barging and oar bashing).
Of course, the obligatory bouncy castle and slide were also present...
The boat race looked fun. I'm surprised you didn't enter.