Winchester Town Day 2011

Our town has an annual Winchester Town Day the first Saturday of June. Along with the En Ka Fair at the end of May, spring is very busy here in Winchester. For Town Day the center of the town is filled with booths of food and goods from the businesses in and around Winchester. And the Town Common has a petting zoo and a pony ride, as well as a Kids Olympics. The kids from one of the local dance companies even did several flash mob dances at different locations, and there is a stage for bands and dance companies to perform on between the library and the pond. There is an annual Rubber Ducky Race run by the Little League, and Town Day is wrapped up with fireworks in the evening. Click this link if you want to know more about Town Day. Here is a photo:

Town Day kicked off on Friday night with a local band playing fun music for the kiddies in front of the fire station. Veronica LOVED IT and loved dancing to the music. She insisted on wearing her Hello Kitty backpack and was so cute wearing it while she danced. Here is a video I took of her dancing:

One of the booths had a bubble machine and she stood there for so long, mesmerized by the bubbles:

There were also a few colorful mats out on a grassy spot so kids could try out their tumbling. The local gymnastics team were showing their talents. (Fun fact: Winchester native Alicia Sacramone was the captain of the silver medal winning USA Team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.) Veronica was so enamored of the older kids turning cartwheels that she was determined to copy them. I tried to show her how to do one, but I don't think her gross motor skills are quite there yet. She would get ready to cartwheel, but had no idea how to make it happen, so she would just kind of stand in cartwheel-ready position, with one arm and one leg up on one side, waiting for the cartwheel to happen to her:

It didn't quite happen, but I am going to teach her one of these days.

In the afternoon was the Lucky Ducky Race. During Town Day the Little League booth sold rubber duckies. Later that day, all the duckies were dropped from a box over the pond and whichever ducky made it the waterfalls first won the grand prize. I captured the actual ducky drop:

There were so many activities that we didn't make it to all of them before it was nap time. Though Veronica was probably a bit young for the pony ride and Kids Olympics. I'm sure next year she is going to have even more fun. For the rest of the Town Day photos, click here.