It's the Strawberry Festival Y'all!

Last year when we were in Roanoke house hunting there were signs everywhere for the Strawberry festival. We were here looking for our house, then we went back to Rhode Island for 10 days and then officially moved here (when we do something we do it quickly!)

The festival was over the weekend we were going to be back in RI packing and I was so upset. I was also pretty excited to find out that in Virginia, strawberry season comes so early. In RI it seemed early compared to Calgary, and here we were gaining extra wonderful months of berries.

I was beginning to lose hope that we would be able to go this year. It only went Friday and Saturday, and Friday we ran out of time. Saturday was pretty jam packed. We had a ball game at 9am, then a spring festival at the kids' school at 11, then we had to work concession at the ball field from 1:00-2:30. I figured by the time we finished all that it would probably not only be too late, but we would all be complete disasters.

Well, not only did we get to go to the Strawberry Festival, but we got to go to the Roanoke Weiner stand on the last day it was open in its original location.

The Roanoke Weiner Stand

I am not really much of a hot dog person (like I usually would run in the other direction), but this was a mighty tasty dog. I don't know what was in the chili's secret recipe, but it was yummy

And obviously it made her happy!

Finally onto the Strawberry Festival!

This is the awesome lady who put an extra scoop of strawberries on my strawberry shortcake. The strawberries were all cut by volunteers, and the shortcake was made by them as well. Yummo!

Drool...

A little bit of fun was had as well!