Yesterday, we spent the afternoon at Casey's favorite Portland event:
The Sportsman's Show,
motto: "If you are not wearing full camouflage, don't bother coming"
The Sportsman's Show is where people of all ages
who like to kill things
can get together and share products, services, and advice
related to killing things.
There are thousands of vendors all competing for your attention,
so many of them have devised strategies to
lure customers to their booths.
To snag people like Casey, they show off large, dead fish.
To trap people like me, baskets of candy are pretty effective.
And to attract Orin, pretzels will do the trick.
We had a good time at the show,
walking around looking at the different exhibits
and getting compliments on Orin's hat.
One of the vendors even let Orin spin the wheel for a prize.
He was completely content with his duck identifier card
until he saw this: A snow dirtbike.
It took us a long time to convince him that he was going to need to
grow just a bit more before he could ride this kind of bike.
"Maybe next year," we reassured him, as we headed towards the car.
And I think he believed us.
1 comment:
That is a very cute hat! And a super duper cute baby to go with it!
By the way, I love the way each of your blogs is like a story. I try to do that but It doesn't work as well. It must be all those creative writing classes you've taken. Either that or your trip to the doctor's office truly IS WAY more interesting than our vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Hmmm.
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