For our last trip we went to Marysvale, Utah for 5 days. 3 of the 5 days there was a UTV Jamboree going on and 2 out of the 3 days the town of Marysvale was having its annual Miner's Days celebration. (For those of you who do not know what a UTV is... it is an off road vehicle)
We didn't have much to do with the UTV jamboree except watch the tug-a war contests and help out my dad who was basically in charge of most of it.
For the Miner's days events they had gunny sack races, stilt walking, log sawing, atlatl throw, tomahawk throwing, 3-legged race, and archery to name a few. I took pictures of as much of the excitement as I could. The first picture is the kids running after the candy as it was thrown from the "candy cannon". Brandon ran with all the kids to get the candy however, he grabbed one piece and apparently that was all that he wanted so he ran back excitedly to show me.
You can't really tell from this picture, but they are throwing a hoop back and forth to each other while trying to catch it with the 2 long sticks.
The "mountain man" showing Matt how to throw a tomahawk properly.
It took the kids 2 minutes to saw through the log. As you can see from the picture they needed some assistance.
The kids were also able to help out in the Coca-cola trailer selling soda pop, water and snow cones. They thought this was too awesome.
There was also a karaoke machine at the park for Miner's days and Emma sang 3 times. All of the songs were Taylor Swift songs, not much of a surprise. She sang one of the songs with her cousin Monroe who is almost 8 years old. 
Monroe's mother, my sister-in-law, Michelle and I decided to do some karaoke too. We sang "I wanna dance with somebody" by Whitney Houston. Here are a few things I learned from my first time singing Karaoke.
1. Don't sing with someone who can sing better than you.
2. Nobody should sing Whitney Houston songs except Whitney Houston
3. Make sure you sing in front of strangers and people you will never see again in your life. Thank goodness I followed #3.
We had a fun trip visiting all the family we saw over the 5 days we were there.
Bye Bye Summer it has been nice knowing you.
4 comments:
Very brave of you to sing Karaoke! I would also never attempt to sing Mariah Carey. The kids look they were having a great time in all of the pictures.
I so agree with Sarah - you are awefully BRAVE. Sounds like a great time.
What a fun way to end the summer. Looks like you all had a blast!
Looks like fun! Good advice about the Karaoke! I think I would have to be drunk to do it!
Every time on American Idol when the contestants sing a Whitney song the judges always slam them...she can only do her songs justice!
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