Thursday, October 29, 2009

LEAF Festival Asheville NC

We made our first Post-Jakobi road trip last week to Asheville, NC for the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF). I drove us 16 hours straight through the night (and VT, NY, PA, MD, WV, VA and NC) drinking a quart of coffee and listening to Steve Martin’s “Born Standing UP” and Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book”. We arrived at 9am and after setting up camp I slept for 4 hours.

Beautiful Lake Eden looking across it to the festival site.

Grandma didn’t show till Saturday having missed the exit for I-40 off of I-90. Ambiana was so glad when she finally arrived. She LOVES her Gamma!

Jakobi in the tent!

We had a fun time, dancing, listening to good music like the Cowboy Junkies and wandering amongst all the other folk, lots of infants this year. The weather was cold and rainy on Friday and Saturday but Sunday was true to its name.

Ambiana is a big help with Gamma!

We saw our contra friends Beth and Kevin from Ohio who have gotten married since we last saw them. We also saw Brandon (as we do every time we come) and his daughter Willow, now 4 and sprightly. Lots of familiar faces on the dance floor. Daddy got to rock out both nights, dancing does me good.

Ambiana liked the Instrument Petting Zoo and really took to the fiddle.




Ambiana LOVED the puppet show in the kid's tent.



We tried to drive a big chunk home on Sunday night but a semi in front of us caught on fire and blocked the highway for 3 hours and the quart of supermarket coffee was not doing it’s thing so we splurged and pulled into a motel at 2am. Ambiana in the morning thought it was the finest thing ever and couldn’t wait to call Gaelen and tell him about it. We made it home the next day and discovered that Jakobi does well enough in the car during the day.