Another fun fair! Watermelon fest

Local to us is the watermelon fest. Over at Hanson Dam. So of course had to take kids and go.

Look what greeted us! Two camels. A Dromedary and a Bactrian. So which is which? The woman in line behind us informed us which is which.

Dromedary is one hump – look at the D, one hump.

Bactrian – two humps, B has two humps. That simple

ook at the beautiful watermelon carvings. Kudos to Mission collage, this is part of their Hospitality program. Nothing better than carving fruit decoratively.

There was a large tent (sorry, no picture) with slits in the side, and black gloved hands – hand our slices of watermelon. You can go back again and again, and yes we did. How iconic is this picture.

People dressed appropriately – there were plenty of dresses and shirts with watermelons on them. Sorry, this was the only picture I got. Some were bright, brash and in your face. Other has very small delicate watermelon slices on a white background.

Einav wouldn’t wear her hat, she wanted mine. So luckily there was a stall with a wide selection of hats, so guess which hat she wanted after that??? This is still the hat I arrived in, but boy, did she covet my new hat as well.

There was a reptile show. I couldn’t get a picture of the weird reptile that Eyal petted, because I was up there with him. I’ve tried finding a picture online, but for the life of me I don’t remember the name. Anyway, she pulls out the albino Burmese python -a baby btw, it will get much bigger. Eyal said: No way! I won’t touch a snake. Einav on the other hand has no fear…

another case of Einav having no fear, she went down this twice. Eyal climbed up and freaked out. I was willing to go down with him, but no, he panicked – so we walked down the stairs together.

Other rides were much more fun.

This was a ride they could do on their own.

Yishai was very good, he went on another ride with them

Then as we were exiting, each kid got a watermelon cupcake. One was green, one was red, with a lot of green and pink frosting. Oh and another slice of watermelon.

The Festival must have been much smaller when it started 50 years ago in Sunland – Tujunga. 9 years ago it moved to Hanson Dam recreation area and is now under the auspices of LA Parks and Rec. they support a number of non-profit organizations. A few years ago I saw a sign, after the fact. Then we had two years of nothing. So when I saw the sign a month ago I immediately let my sons know. They had gone previously to the Strawberry festival in Oxnard in the Spring. The difference? People sold strawberries outside the festival but other wise it was just a carnival. Here there we all kinds of watermelon related events. Apparently there is a fashion show where people dress up like watermelons.

Next post, the classic cars, one can’t have a fair without classic cars.

Leah

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