We have very small cute little shopping center here. The couple of times that I've been out there it's seemed like a bit of a ghost town. In fact, the other afternoon when Max and I went there to get an ice cream cone from the little sandwich shop, we were the only people in sight.
I don't want them to close down though, that would be a bummer, since we're a good 10 or 15 minutes outside of town.
This week the stores all got together and hosted a First Tuesday party, and of course we went.
It was really fun, free and very small.
They gave out teeny hot fudge sundaes. There were dogs in the dog training place doing tricks (though we didn't see any of those.)
There was a marimba band playing on the sidewalk--and they were really good!
I mostly just took that video to test out the video skills on my new phone that I haven't really had a chance to try.
There's a little computer repair shop there, and he brought out all the old PCs that people had dropped off for recycling and let people take them apart. It was pretty cool. Max loved it.
I was really impressed with how much of the computer he got apart. I didn't know he was so good with a screwdriver!!
We finished up with some face painting. This lady said it was her first time ever doing it, and she was really worried and stressed about it and took forever with each kid. As a result the little things she painted were SO pretty. She had butterflies on all the little girls that were so gorgeous I couldn't have painted them if I'd worked on it for a week on a really nice piece of paper. Anyway, she did a very good job.
Max was very proud of his little dragon.
So proud in fact, that he wouldn't let us wash it off at bedtime, and then, he wouldn't let us wash the remnants of it off in the morning either. So he went to play at a friend's house looking like he had some sort of strange skin condition.
That night we compromised by taking a picture before we washed it off in the tub.
He's a cute little stinker.
