We had a great time at a Celtic Festival on Saturday. We went with Steve and Patti. Let me introduce you to them. We met them in Fort Myers on my very first assignment. Patti is a labor/delivery/nursery travel nurse and Steve is a retired Baptist pastor. We keep in touch and get together whenever we are somewhat in the same area. They are currently in Palm Harbor, which is about 25 miles south of us, so we drove down and went to the festival together. As you can see, Patti has a pink cast on. She fell of her bike and broke the bone that leads to her thumb. She has not been able to work, so Steve has been picking up odd jobs. He was pretend whining to Dad that he couldn't believe he had to go find work, of course, Dad jumped in and was wailing with him. Poor babies!The big guy in the back is Kevin. He is a Celtic warrior. Unfortunately, we blocked his kilt in this picture. It is fascinating what people are passionate about. Kevin is excellent at demonstrating the old primitive Celtic war items. He was very knowlegeable also. Kevin is 6'6" and weighs 294 lbs, quite formidable!
These are pictures of Kevin throwing rocks.
A short video of the rock throwing.
Here, Kevin is demonstrating the caber throw. Unbelieveable! the caber is 14'8" and weighed 90 lb. He couldn't actually throw it, because of safety concerns, but showed us how he got it off the ground and up. If he actually threw it, it would flip end to end. There is going to be a real competition with all of these events in April. We are going to try to get to that event.
Unfortunately, the music wasn't what we expected. We were hoping for the traditional Celtic music, but it was more like Celtic rock and roll. It was okay, just wasn't what we were looking forward to hearing.
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