Troops, Trade Days and Greek Food Festival

This morning Marc took Marc Jr. and Tucker to the convent with the Troops of St. George to do yard work for the precious Sisters.  They had the best time and pulled weeds and trimmed bushes all morning.

I love this picture of Tucker working and talking to a Sister and a Friar.  :)

After they worked Father P. read the daily readings, which just happened to be about the Sower and the Seed!  :)   A perfect lesson for this day of service!

After lunch we tried to decide what to do today.  I said we could either go to Trade Days at Tannehill or the Greek Food Festival.  We decided to do both!

First, we went out to Tannehill for Trade Days, which is basically a giant flea market.  It's just fun to walk up and down the aisles and find treasures.  Today we found a booth where a school teacher was selling all her old story books for 50 cents each.  You know I grabbed some!  :)  Marky also got some camping gear from the army surplus tent, and the littles got marionette stuffed animals.

Snow cone break to beat the heat!

We stopped by the Tannehill Smithy on the way to the car- they still train blacksmiths here.

After leaving Tannehill we headed over to the local Melkite Church for the Greek Food Festival.  We had a great time- there was live music and dancing.

The night ended with us running into friends, and Tucker and Charlie playing on the dance floor.   What a wonderful day.