popcorn pops

A month or so ago I won tickets....again!  It was for a Popcorn Pops concert, which is an outdoor kids/family concert that the symphony puts on in the summer downtown.  Unfortunately the concert was the same night we were headed up to drop the girls off with my parents on our way to Mackinac Island. I saw that my friend, Sara, had entered to win tickets too (you enter on Facebook, and I had seen her post there) so I gave the tickets to her.  

So imagine my surprise when she won tickets to the second concert, couldn't use them, and asked if we wanted them!  "Turnabout is fair play," she told me.  

The concert was last night.  It was supposed to be humid and 91 degrees, and we talked about not going, because we were afraid of being miserable.  I hadn't told the girls about it, so they wouldn't know they were missing it, but we didn't want the tickets to  go  to waste, so we decided to try it, knowing we could always leave if we were miserable.

A storm came through in the afternoon, which cooled things off a little bit, which helped.  It was still pretty hot, but not as bad as we had anticipated.

Before the concert they have inflatables, carousel rides, a youth orchestra concert, and other kids activities (a parachute, crafts, places to try playing different instruments, face painting, corn hole, big building materials, etc).  So we got there early, enjoyed those, and then had a picnic as the concert began.

The girls had a great time and we were glad we went, despite the heat.