Mountain Man Rendezvous

On Saturday we went to the Mountain Man Rendezvous the kids had fun for about the first 10 mins, after that they were tired, hungry, hot and they wanted to go home to Grandma's house. We left Ellie home with Grandma she seemed to have had her fill of fun from the Fire Station the day before. Ryne and Kaleb loved watching the hatchet throwing contest, after that we went to see them shoot there black powder rifles, and pistols. We walked around to the different tents they had, they were sellin all sorts of stuff, Ryne got a pretty purple ring, Kaleb got a 2 sided whistle, Ellie got a little wooden hand drum, I got some awesome scissors, and we got Dane some dice "cause ya know mom, daddy collects them!", Uncle E bought Tyne and Kaleb little wood rubber band guns, and they all got a rock candy sucker. We walked around till they pulled out the big guns, and I do mean big guns, they had 4 canons there, 2 shot bowling balls, the other 2 were smaller but still cool to watch! Ok so enough chit chat here are the pictures.


This guy was making a knife, Ryne and Kaleb both got to turn that little drum thing and circulate air to make the fire hotter, they thought that was the coolest thing ever especially Kaleb ( Kaleb wouldn't hold still long enough for me to take a picture).Ryne and Kaleb watchin the hatchet throwing contest...The wined up and the pitch........... it was a bulls eye just so ya know!! This guy was really good, and he said it was his first time throwing!
Uncle E and the kids walkin by the shootin range.One handed pistol shootRifle shoot, Ryne really liked that a girl was shooting "girls are good at shooting guns too hu momma!?" Why yes yes they are!!Last but not least the big guns, This canon shot 8lb-16lb bowling balls over 200 yards it was insane to watch!!I wasn't listening when they talked about this one but I thought it was cool. Ryne got to help aim one of the smaller canons. I think the kids favorite part was when they said "fire in the hole" and the shot the canons.After the Rendezvous my dad and I took Kaleb with us to run some errands, while Ethan took Ryne home to Grandmas. While we were having lunch Kaleb would launch his chicken nuggets into his ketchup sayin "fire in the hole!!!" it was very entertaining, needless to say the kids were exhausted by bed time, and that my friends means the day was a success!