The Edison Festival of Light is one of the town of Fort Myer's biggest events. Bernie and Connie, from the boat Distant Shores, offered to drive the half hour trip -- THANKS! Meeting up with other boaters, we had a bird's eye view of the events perched on Joe and Connie's, aft deck. The festival celebrates one of Fort Myer's famous past citizens, Thomas Edison, who had a winter home in town. All afternoon a Salza band played while folks shook their bootie (including Grant & Cindy, sorry the camera missed THAT one!) and shoppers milled around the large craft fair. Back at Joe and Connie's boat we were seated perfectly to watch the crowd gathering in preparation for the start of the five kilometre run. We're not quite sure why they call it a 5K run in the States instead of a 3 mile and 188.07 yard race, but they do.
Fireworks were followed by the big event: The Parade of Light. It was great to catch up again with our friends at Fort Myer's Yacht Basin. Hopefully we'll catch up again while heading up the East coast.
 |
No comments:
Post a Comment