Welcome to the World's Largest Kool-aid stand! (Can you see Scott at the front of the line, right below the 3rd flag from the left?) Our family ventured about 2 hours west of Omaha to Hastings, Nebraska. Home of where Kool-aid was invented. So every August, they have a 3 day weekend to celebrate. We've been wanting to do this for a few years now and finally decided to go. You buy a $2 mug (or more for a fancy light up one like I'm holding) and get all the refills you want of any of the 14 flavors they offered all day long. We were a little sugared up and bloated after a while:) and wanted nothing but water the rest of the evening.Can't forget a photo opportunity with the Kool-aid Man himself! Not every day you see him!Tyson sure enjoyed his share of Kool-aid. I've never really given him kool-aid before and he sure guzzled it down. They had lots of little games for kids to do such as...

a bean bag toss and others. (Great side shot of the belly...thanks Scott)A "train" ride which Tyson thought was pretty fun...And of course dancing in the street to a senior band playing war time songs. We probably stayed there at least 20 min. watching him dance...the last 10 min. were all by himself in the street...I'll have to post the video of that.We were going to head to the Hastings Museum for more Kool-aid info and excitement, but one look back in our rearview mirror after being in the car 2 minutes, showed us that this sleepy boy with a great kool-aid mustache was done for the day.
It made for a fun little trip and I'm glad we went! It was getting pretty hot, so we were glad to leave around noon, but they had later events such as a concert, fireworks and a kool-aid drinking contest which we just the missed the preliminaries for that morning. I would have made sure Scott enter just for the heck of it and for the sake of pictures.