Opa and Oma

 Opa and Oma are once again here... So great that they can come each year and stay. so day 1 of them being here we went to 6 flags and I got a few shots, Oma went on the ride with Kate - very cool!

                                       The girls won themselves some capes

 We put Opa to work right away... And he taught Kate to swing a little better.

Got the sheep shawn...
Just chilling and playing games - fun fun!

Chicken Festival!

We went to the annual chicken festival - 65 years running though this is the last year :(
Well we had a lot of success, dad sold a guitar and I also sold a lot of my carvings and Kate even made $41 selling her scarves. fantastic 2 days. 

Here you see our full table - dad with his guitars, my bone carvings and Kate with he scarves.

Here you see the biggest frying pan 'in the world ' contains 160 gallons of oil and fry's 800 pieces of chicken at one time - and there was still a 2 hour wait for lunch or dinner...

We even made it into the paper for our unique table. Its a first for Kate to be in the paper and one of the few for me too. The photo below was the one in the paper.

Chicken Festival '14
Guitar maker Johan van der Gaag, left, all the way from New Zealand, with several of his instruments. His granddaughter Kate Clemens, 6, of Federalsburg, hold an "Irish Bouzouki", and his daughter Marlies (Kates mom) hold one of his other guitars. Johan van der Gaag is visiting his family here this summer and decided to show his work at the Delmarva Chicken Festival.