Cultural Experiences

Kara asked us if we wanted to take Bentley to a cultural event going on in our community. (Last weekend Matt took him to a children's' art festival, so now it was our turn to contribute to the little tyke's education.) We had a choice of the ice carving festival downtown or the Folk Festival which was taking place on the university campus. Since we were already headed downtown to buy shoes, we chose the ice carving.

It was quite cold outside and Bentley opted to not walk from where we parked to the ice festival, but to be carried. Nice option, if you can get someone to carry you. When you're a pint-sized two year old hanging out with your grandparents, that's not hard to do. When we arrived at Town Square we dutifully checked out the ice carvings. We had to keep moving to keep from freezing. We tried to get a good event photo on our pocket camera, but Bentley was not fully cooperative.



Afterwards we took him to our home and gave him a chance to take a nap (he opted not to). Later we headed back to his house via the Folk Festival. We timed our visit to coincide with the cloggers. Bentley enjoyed watching them, but when the next act came on, a rather quiet folk singer, he let us know that he wanted to go. Turns out he didn't want to go home, he just wanted to go out in the lobby and climb up and down and up and down the two sets of big staircases. He was furious when we made him leave and he didn't quit screaming until we were half way to his house. His opa had not witnessed a meltdown of this magnitude before. He really should have taken that nap!


So, did Bentley benefit from his cultural exposure today? I'm sure he did, although perhaps not as we expected. The talented acts at the Folk Festival might not have held his attention for long, but the architect of the Wendy Williams Auditorium has his full praise. (The staircase at Loussac Library is also a big hit with him.)