Swiss Days in Midway!

Let's see if I can add text to these pictures and make it somewhat fun. Its been a LONG day. PEEP class, a productive discussion with the school director about changes with Max's school and explaining my position as a parent, a disobedient child, the library with a sick sobbing child who needs to be held, a follow-up email to make sure I didn't sound like an idiot to the school's director, a disobedient child, dealing with health insurance to see how in the heck we can get some speech therapy for Max, and how much each option is going to cost so we can decide what to do, talking with a speech therapist to see if they can work with our insurance, gathering clothes (in the hot attic) and books for the youth to collect for refugees in Uganda, making cookies for mutual, a disobedient child, eating take out :), a disobedient child, facebooking and blogging while waiting for Jon to get home from mutual, a disobedient child, listening to Signing Time in the background . . .I'm tired.

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We love Midway! We had our Honeymoon there and we have been there 3 other times for anniversary weekends. We have been wanting to check out Swiss Days for a few years now, but we never pay enough attention to when it is. This time we were able to make it. It was great. The weather was nice and overcast-not to hot.

There was LOTS of traffic. I expected their to be traffic, and we really lucked out to not be affected too much. We were going to catch a shuttle from the park and ride, but the line looked long and the website said they come every 10 mins that would have made us wait for 45 mins at least with how long the line was. So we decided to see if we could get closer or find a less busy park and ride. But instead we got caught in some stand still traffic trying to get on main street. Luckily, there was a empty grass lot right by where we were stopped and they were selling parking, $5, a steal for how close and convenient it was! It was a 2 min walk to the festivities and we weren't parked next to any cars.

I loved how "crafty" it was. I think the Provo freedom festival used to be more like this. It was not very commercial at all! The way we like it! They had tons of stuff that was fun to see and stuff that I hadn't seen. I am trying to get in to the increasingly large and complex crafting world.



Swiss Day Royalty signing autographs


We spent some time here for the boys. This is where Max learned about jumping and to like it. He was too nervous to venture out on the toys, we just helped him jump on the sides of them. It was great because the next week his teacher said we will work on jumping and toe walking, and he was ready and knew what jumping was already!


Apparently, the food was amazing. We were there for a few hours and the whole time the lines were forever long! Everything was "swiss" which we decided meant there was swiss cheese on it. Swiss tacos, swiss hamburgers, swiss and ham sandwich, swiss and chicken sandwich, etc. We stopped at the shortest line and got swiss and chicken sandwiches, they were REALLY good. Jon even liked it which is saying tons for carnival food!

There were LOTS of things we liked: amazing wood Chinese checkers boards; wood and stone/mother of pearl inlay work; photography; painting; silverware jewelry; detailed wooden construction trucks, and rubber band guns; home decor; kids stuff; bags; etc. I guess you could say this would be like touring Etsy shops in person. I am rarely on Etsy. It was great! Maybe I should shop more on Etsy . . .or maybe not . . .

This was my purchase. I had to be strict, but I loved this saying and the cute hand writing-mine sucks. And I am using it as my jumping off point for Max's room. Now to find some vintage cars/toys/whatever. . .




In my effort to avoid buyer's remorse, sometimes I get, "not buying it remorse". We past the booth that was selling these cute kids canvases and I was trying to justify not buying it. But all I could think is I'm going to regret this. So reluctantly, Jon said, then go buy it. While he patiently waited with the boys by this tree.




We could have spent thousands there. Some pretty amazing art!

Then as we were ready to leave it started to rain a bit. It worked out perfectly that we were parked so close and didn't have to wait an hour to catch the shuttle back to the park and ride.

Traffic back out to the highway was slow. Jon drove on to a dirt pullout to skip all these car trying to get on the highway-I love that! (Normally, he is a VERY conservative driver:)



Beautiful Midway



Max was exhausted


Zac likes getting his picture when ever I get the camera out


There was also some amazing music, choirs, accordionists, little kid groups, cute old man groups, etc. You should check out the architecture on Main street too, I love the feel of the swiss/dutch style.