Utah Arts Festival

Last weekend, with all our visitors gone, we decided we wanted to spend some nice time together as a FAMILY; so we spent the afternoon at the Utah Arts Festival for a little culture and fun! Luckily Harrison was a very good boy and slept in his stroller out of the sun most of the day. 

First thing when we walked in the gate, there was a booth for the kiddies to make homemade hats for $4.00. 

Umm, rip off! 

My grandma thought this up years ago to entertain a handful of bored grandkids on a rainy day stuck indoors. 

$4.00 pssh! 

A milk jug, some leftover buttons, yarn and a little creativity goes a long way! 

Unfortunately we didn't see a ton of artwork that was our style, but there was one guy whose canvas work we loved... Justin Hillgrove does great parody work! 

This lady kept getting her head in the way when Jordan was trying to sneak pictures. 

Here is our favorite piece from the whole fair.

Courtesy of: http://www.justinhillgrove.com

Sadly there wasn't great "fair fare" [ha ha, get it!], not enough fried foods... mmm. I couldn't even find a corndog so I settled for a hot dog. Big mistake. Bleh. Sadly my desire for a churro had to be filled later at Sam's Club Food Court on the way home. 

I can't say the festival itself was worth the $12 admission, but thankfully the arts museum was open to the public so we were able to spend an hour or so enjoying the air conditioning while we enjoyed some hands on art activities. 

Working in "Paint" with a real paintbrush. 

According to my own talent, maybe I'm not the best person to be judging fine art after all!

Jordan is a HUGE fan of Green Screen Technology [not really] and he finally got to act out his dreams of terrorizing a big city like Godzilla, although I don't think that's Tokyo there in the background. 

The wall of dreamed up technological, scientific and medicinal advances of the future! "Permanent Puppy," now I could get on board with that! One read, "A phone that is 2mm thin, but works as well as any other," because you know who needs a cure for cancer when you can have a tiny phone, right?!

I'm not sure [at all] what this exhibit had to do with "art," but here is me looking at life as an amputee.
"Liutenent Dan, you got new legs!"

And then there was this.

Just creepy. 
What is with that horses eyes!? 

We stuck around after lunch to see the BANDALOOP Dancers, which were sadly not super impressive. There was a lot of too graceful, flowing hand dancing like those contemporary dancers do on "So You Think You Can Dance." Which is nice, but when you're hanging off the side of a building, your ballerina swan arms are a little lost in translation. 

I wanted to see some crazy flying trapeze work or lets get the JABBAWOCKEEZ crumpin' and jumpin' on a wall! 

Even if we didn't find anything [affordable] to brighten up our new house, it was still great to get out of the house with my boys!