Saturday was our spring kickoff party at the community garden. I sent out reminder emails and showed up with a bunch of homemade muffins and a pitcher of pink lemonade. Only one other family showed up. 
Most of my stragglers responded to my "hey guys where are you" email with a decent excuse and promised to plant soon. I just had to drink a lot of lemonade that day.
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| The turnout was as puny as this carrot |
The upside of the lackluster garden party attendance is that we were out of there pretty quickly, which freed us up to go to the Tucson Book Festival later that day! It was pretty neat. There were tents everywhere. We didn't do any research in advance, so we didn't take advantage of any of the scheduled talks or shows- although we did stumble upon an extremely talented guitarist in the Native American tent that we listened to for a while. We mainly hung out in the science section where there was a lot for Elliot to do.
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| Whole foods had a free cereal exhibit! |
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| WITH STRAWBERRY MILK |
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| I had some high school flashbacks with these edible bugs (chocolate covered cricket and cricket flour cookie) |
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| Elliot had a really weird reaction to this sand and water table. He was super hyped but super stressed that it stuck to his hands. He was very determined to wash it off in the water, but couldn't really reach the water without getting more sand on him. VICIOUS CYCLE. |
It rained on us near the end, but that was a good trade off for the lovely cool weather. I feel like we barely scratched the surface of the book festival, and will be sure to go back next year!
