Aahh... The Bayside Festival...
Well to say that we spent a significant amount of time involved in this would be a major understatement. It was a 3 day, totally free, family friendly event down in the Open Space (downtown on the water where they have the Cherry Festival). They had concerts, food, jumping tent thingies, and a rock climbing wall. It was really pretty cool.
Our friend Dan was one of the major people in planning this- for months in advance. Matt, Stan and Scott were also very involved and were down there for about 5 or 6 (very long) days straight setting up, helping to run things, then breaking down.
Danielle and I were down on Front Street, Clinch Park, and the beach areas handing out several hundred flyers and tickets. It was a lot of work and a it all came together wonderfully.... it was a great time. Tiring... but fun.
Tenth Avenue North
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Jason Castro
Scott and Stan... truly men of many hats during the weekend. Or shirts. Notice the shirts tucked on each side of Stan's shorts? The teal ones were general staff, black was Stage Crew, yellow was Security. Matt, Scott and Stan were in each one of those colors at various times throughout the weekend! Mr. Dim had an orange (super important, special access) shirt. No pictures of him- he was constantly on the move.
Mr. Scott in a rare moment of downtime- playing with Eli
oh... and it rained. A lot. We were umm.... just a little bit wet! But the storm blew over and the show went on!
This is Garrett and Caelan. Garrett is the son of the principal at TC Christian and the very first time he ever saw Caelan, he came straight to him and said, "Hey Buddy! You want to come play with me?" and took him by the hand and went off on the playground. It warmed my heart to say the least. That was a year and a half ago and anytime he would see Caelan at school, he would play with him. First of all, any child Garrett's age (5th grade at the time) who is willing to play with a child that much younger- impresses me. It speaks volumes about Garrett's heart that he would spend as much time with Caelan as he has and how he interacts with him.
So anyway... we ran into Garrett at the Bayside Festival and he came over to get Caelan and take him into the inflatable obstacle course and then into the jump house. Caelan doesn't have the physical (core) strength or coordination to do the obstacle course- but Garrett went in with him and held his hand or helped him over and through the parts of it. I didn't have the camera on me at that time. But these are of them in the jumping house. You can still see so much of how special this boy is!!
Garrett is genuinely happy to spend this time with Caelan... and of course Caelan loves it!
Here is a little video clip of Jason Castro- before the rain ran him off the stage- this song's for you Mom :)
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