Summerfest on the Rio

The 1st weekend in June can only mean one thing...SUMMERFEST!

Cole Park is THE place to be on the first weekend in June. It is the unofficial kick-off to summer in Alamosa. Summerfest on the Rio (formerly known as The Sunshine Festival) is an arts and crafts fair/carnival and the entire town comes out to eat, shop, listen to live bands, socialize and just hang out. Everyone goes to Summerfest, even people who have moved away from Alamosa come back every year for this big event. This year the weather was perfect! We spent a few hours at the park on Saturday and again on Sunday. The highlight for Jamie was, of course, the train. He rode it twice on Saturday and once on Sunday. On Sunday, Jamie visited the children's booth where we watched a magician/balloon artist. He made a fun dinosaur hat out of balloons that Jamie wore all day. (We convinced him to take it off to ride the train, fearing that it might blow away.) We snacked on yummy kettle corn and ate enormous crepe wraps for lunch.