Rock N' Romp and Mid South Maze

We went to our first Romp N' Romp this afternoon - local bands give afternoon concerts for families with kids. You can't get in if you don't have a kid with you. It's cheap: kids are free, adults are $5, and then you get music, free food and free beer (kind of seems too good to be true, doesn't it?) It was fun.

The location of the Rock N Romp moves around to different venues. The location of today's concert was at the Mid South Maze - a big corn maze they set up recently for the fall. So after we got tired of the music we wandered over and went through the maze.

I'll admit these mazes freak me out. I was fairly certain we would never get out again. It took us about an hour, which is apparently about as long as it takes, so we did okay.

Stian thought it was pretty cool. He's been into mazes lately.

They do a haunted version of the maze. I'm really glad we weren't there for that!

Here's a picture of the maze from above: pic

And then when we got out of the maze of course Stian had to take a turn at the corn cannon. He thought that was pretty fun.

Mid South Fair

We took the kids to the Mid South Fair today. This time we made sure Silje got to ride on some rides too. Both kids had a lot of fun.

Drawing

Silje loves to draw and color. It's her new favorite thing to do. Give her some paper and some markers and she's a happy girl.

The Shell - videos 3

The Shell - videos 2

The Shell - videos 1

The Shell

One of the reasons we were particularly interested in this house is it's close proximity to Overton Park. We've already enjoyed that a great deal with the zoo being so close, and the park itself including playgrounds and trails through the woods, and big open grassy spaces, etc. One thing we were interested in in particular was Levitt Shell. The do free concerts four nights a week at Levitt Shell during the summer. Unfortunately we discovered when we moved that they stop for the hottest months of the year. I believe the last concert was the night before we moved in. Bummer. But they started up again this week! They run Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. The shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday don't start until 7:30, which is a little late for the kids. But the Sunday show starts at 6:00.

So yesterday we packed up a picnic dinner and headed over to the Shell. This was a big deal concert as the artist was Booker T. Jones. Booker T. was a house artist at Stax records and played on many, many famous songs that you would recognize. He also has performed under his own name. He is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and has a Grammy for lifetime achievement. The place was packed - it will be interesting to see how packed the place is for lesser known artists. It was a like a huge neighborhood party though, it was fun. The kids enjoyed themselves. The warm up act was rap, which was not really Kris's or my speed, but the kids enjoyed it well enough. We quite enjoyed Booker T., even if we could only stay for 6 or so of his songs before we had to get the kids home to bed.

We'll be back though for other shows. It was so nice to just stroll over here, it's only a couple blocks from the house.

I have a few videos to upload as well, but right now trying to get the videos to load is crashing Blogger, so I'll keep trying, but in a different post so I don't drive myself totally insane.