RiverFest, Radford

I survived my first week of teaching! My class keeps on growing and some of the students are challenging at the least. Still most of them are great and I am hoping once I get used to it and start doing the demonstrations, it will become less stressful and more fun. (Assuming the demos work, which is probably a big assumption!)
Saturday I went with Steve and Eva to Radford, about 20 mins outside to the RiverFest at Bisset Park. The park was very nice but the Festival wasn't quite what we were expecting. They had slightly exaggerated what was going on. There was no as much going on as we thought there would be. :-(

The festival

Still it was free and a lovely day. And there was some music so Steve and Eva got some more dancing in.

Getting their groove on.

Dancing

Getting dizzy now!

 We had a walk around (which didn't take long) and got a lemonade and cotton candy, which Eva couldn't decide if she liked at first but then the sugar rush kicked in and it was all good. She also found a hula-hoop and showed off her impressive skills!

hula-hooping

We took a walk along the river though couldn't go too far as there was no shade and it was really hot. We saw lots of people kayaking and tubing down the river. I desperately wanted to go but I forgot to pack my swim suit. :-( Plus Eva isn't very happy on the water yet. Maybe another time. It looked so relaxing.

The New River Valley.

Steve took Eva down to the water but I decided not to join them. My ankle is stilling playing up from spraining it a few weeks ago. We also stopped at the park on the way back to the car but the climbing things were just too hot to touch!

Checking out the river

We stopped a nice little Mexican for lunch and then for ice-cream for dessert. Unfortunately thanks to my teaching I have tones of work to do so the rest of the day and weekend was spent in my office with cups of tea trying to get the lectures written for next week and get some research done. The joys of teaching!