What's A Festival

Me: Doodle we are going to a festival today.
Doodle: What's a festival?
Me: It's hard to explain. You will see when we get there.

And after a full day spent at the Pittsburgh International Children's Festival, I think Doodle understands what a festival is! This is the kind of thing I wish we had done on Saturday so I could post this, tell all our Pitty friends to go, and then go back again ourselves. It was a fantastic day spent together as a family. Here are a few of the highlights.
Our first stop (after lunch of course) was Exxopolis. Because my description won't do it justice, here is the link to the website Architects of Air. It is basically a really big tent that some how transforms the light inside.

Inside the tent it is a little warm and clammy, but positively peaceful and wonderful. The colors are so vibrant and powerful, that the colors of other things are dulled. Doodle was perplexed but the fact that she kept changing colors.

This picture doesn't do it justice, but this area of the tent had beautiful panels that mimic stained glass.

After our exploration of the lumminarium, we headed to check out all the booths.

Marbles

Naps (the only 20 minutes she slept the entire day)

Silent Disco (wireless head phones provide the music)

My Favoritest provided added entertainment

And then we made our way to the Petting Zoo

Upon leaving the petting zoo, Doodle plainly stated that we would come back to the animals after we went to our show! I think she enjoyed the animals just a little.
We made our way to the theater for our show Aga-Boom. All I can say is it is a combination of Cirque and Blue Man Group for the under 10 crowd. Doodle was a little nervous at the beginning, but by the end she was loving every minute of it! And what's not to love about a show that ends with a giant paper fight and humongous balloons flying around the audience?

After the show, we attempted to head home but we got suckered into another stop by the petting zoo. And on the way there we discovered some people playing on slacklines. They were letting anyone who wanted try it out. So, Doodle did,

And even though she started off terrified, she walked the whole thing. I was so proud of her for not quiting and she was really proud of herself!
We hit up the petting zoo one more time as promised and then with many small crying fits, we headed home. It was a fabulous family day!

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