Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

We arrived back at the Falcon Ridge Folk Fest on Tuesday after Gaelen's party to a night full of rain. It let up on Wednesday when we worked our security shift. You can see how tough it was in the picture of Ya and Momy working away. The rain came back Wednesday night right when Gamma, Ben, Susanna, Katie and Maya, Molly, Eden and Gaelen arrived.

There was a lull in the rain at 10pm and we got their tents up in 15 minutes. Colleen and I worked our shifts early and by the time the rain ended on Thursday we were done.

Friday the 25th was Gamma's 70th and Gaelen's 7th Birthday and we celebrated with a birthday breakfast. Gaelen's happy face when we told him of his Red Sox Baseball camp gift was priceless.

We spent some time at a nearby quarry swimming and found this to put our faces in.

We had a blast at the festival all being together. Momma and Susanna went in to Boston on the 25th for a Red Sox game and they came back on Saturday with Patti and Tony, they got into a fender bender on the freeway and arrived in a rental car. We spent Saturday night in the dance tent Contra-ing away.

Mud was the primary element at the festival which was cut short on Sunday when a vicious storm with hail and lightening and gale force winds blew through knocking down several large tents and cutting off power. I had to drag my mother to shelter from the pummeling hail. It was pretty intense. We made it out by 3pm and all headed into Boston to spend the early part of the week. Traffic was horrible and the 2.5 hour ride turned into a 5 hour one