Street Fair

Today I took my children to our local street fair, put on by the city chamber of commerce.  It's an opportunity for people to see what services their community has to offer.  The event includes booths for various businesses and government agencies, candidates for political office, activities for kids, police cars, fire trucks, and garbage trucks for kids to explore, a small car show, live music, and food trucks.  The best part?  The event is free (though the kids' attractions cost a bit of money similar to a carnival).  My kids loved going to each of the booths and exploring.  This year, they moved it from the center of town to our local mall.  It was nice to have more space for everything, but I hope next year they have more volunteers for parking and crowd control, a more detailed map, better crowd flow, and possibly offsite parking with a shuttle as an option. 

If your town has something like this, it's worth going.  We had a lot of fun and the kids were kept entertained for hours.