Carnival Fun

The annual St. Boniface Bonifest took place this weekend.  This year was a lot of fun because both boys were able to enjoy the festivities offered.  The evening started out with a nice dinner, while listening to live music.  Once our food was devoured, Bill and Nolan purchased riding tickets.  Nolan wanted to go down the slide first.  Since Nolan is not tall enough to ride by himself, Bill had to ride 2 times with Nolan and then 2 times with Carter.  Daddy had as much fun as the boys I think! 

Nolan and Carter wanted to keep sliding, but Bill and I decided to try out the other rides.  The bumper cars were next in line.  I was hesitant to allow Nolan to ride these, but he said he wanted to and there were a lot of other smaller kids riding with their dads.  Nolan was all smiles at first, but wasn't braced and ready for the first bump.  Poor Nolan smashed his face on the lap bar and started to scream bloody murder.  Bill didn't even notice and kept ramming into other cars.   I was screaming for Bill to stop and hide in a corner, so the brutality would stop!  That was the longest 5 minutes of poor Nolan's life.

It took a few minutes for Nolan to recover from his bumper car trauma, but I let Nolan know Carter wanted to ride some rides.  Carter was super excited to ride the cars that go around in a circle!!!  At first, Nolan was hesitant to ride, but decided to join Carter after a few minutes of thinking about it.  For some reason, these cars are the funnest things at the carnival to the boys!  Carter and Nolan had a blast.  When the ride would come to an end, Carter would start screaming "Bo-ka", which means Kubota and couldn't wait to ride again.  Carter had a blast "driving" the cars and Nolan felt better about riding rides again.

All but ONE of our tickets were used up on the slide and cars, so Nolan found a booth to use his last ticket on.  Nolan shot ping pong balls over with a squirt gun.  Nolan thought he was big stuff because the kids running the booth were cheering him on.  Nolan won two necklaces for his shooting skills and gave them both to me!! :)

The Purcell family had a great time at the carnival and couldn't of asked for a better evening!