Abilene CALF 2015 Day 1

Connor brought it to my attention that I stopped writing about our time at the Abilene Children’s Art & Literacy Festival after 2014. I wrote that we had received our passes and shirts for the 2015 festival but never wrote anything after that. So, we’ll call this Flashback Friday and I’ll upload one day every Friday starting now until I get caught up.

The featured author/illustrator for 2015 was David Shannon. His books include No, David!, Duck on a Bike, and A Bad Case of Stripes.

This was the first year that the CALF decided to utilize the GooseChase app to form a scavenger hunt. That was a fun new addition that had us revisiting past sculptures and figuring out riddles.

We started our morning off at another new addition to the CALF, the Kornpop Balloon Show. He does balloon creations and some magic tricks. The boys ended up with some balloon dogs.

Every year the boys look forward to having Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice but this year they decided to try out the Kona Ice and we also grabbed a hot dog from the food trucks to share while we waited for our time to ride the train.

After our train ride we went to the instrument petting zoo. This is something the boys look forward to every year.

After lunch we took pictures with a lot of the sculptures for the scavenger hunt and went to some of the readings.

After all of our sculpture hunting, the boys decorated cookies at McKay’s Bakery.

We ended our day at Frontier Texas! where they were showing Frozen on a big inflatable screen outside. We didn’t stay for the movie but we did take a picture with Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff.

Stay tuned for day 2!