Main Street Days

It takes a little bit more time & travel to get to the festivals in Grapevine, but we headed over to the Main Street Days celebration this year with the kids. We ate festival food, rode on the rides, and enjoyed the little area for kids with the petting zoo. We were only able to walk about half way around before the kids had had enough and we made a run for it.

The kids tent is completely free, which is amazing. It is however, much more toddler-friendly than big-kid friendly, but it works for us. They can ride on the little vehicles, play and build with legos {Legoland is there}, draw pictures, touch little sea stars {Sea Life Aquarium}, and pet & feed the farm animals. We got there first thing in the morning when they opened, so not many other kids were there yet. And the animals were a little aggressive since they hadn't been force-fed cups of food by hundreds of little children yet.

Janie did not want to touch it, but Nora felt the sea star!

Before that goat ate her cone in two bites!

The rides cost about $3 each per person. They did not charge us for adults on the merry-go-round thankfully. Twenty dollars goes away in a matter of seconds on these rides! I read about a pass that they have for kids only on Fridays. I am going to look into that for next year and maybe we can take the girls on that day. I mean, if you're going to spend $40 anyways, you might as well get them a pass to ride as much as they want! There weren't THAT many that they could go on by themselves, but there were enough that they could do them more than once and definitely get your money's worth out of them.

The carousel was a for sure thing. I do not know how tall Janie is right now, but I remember Nora just reached 36" at her three year check up, so I wasn't positive Janie would be there yet. {That is the height requirement on these rides.} They loved it and both picked zoo animals, I think because we had just been there, but who knows!

As it turns out, Janie is just about 36 inches tall, so she got to go on all the rides we tried. Nora was all business and "big girl" and didn't really pay much attention to us while on the rides. Janie was hamming it up and waving and giggling and yelling out "This is so much fun!" for the entirety of the ride. I'm glad she had a blast!

I met the height requirement!

Surprisingly enough, no one would take a picture with the big dinosaur as we walked around, so I did. Apparently there is a dinosaur exhibit downtown Grapevine starting in June. It's called "Be the Dinosaur" and looks pretty cool! Plus at $4 a person, it's not going to break the bank. I'm going to look into going sometime this summer.

We had a lot of fun at Main Street Days. I'm checking out those passes before next time!