Hello all! If you’ve got nothing planned this weekend, come on down to Chestertown for the annual Chestertown Tea Party Festival (no affiliation whatsoever to the Tea Party movement (named after the Boston Tea Party). We really wish they had named themselves after pretty much anything else Boston-related – “The Freedom Trail Party,” “The Common Party,” “The Prudential Party,” “The Massacre Party,” “The Duck Tours Party,” “The Celtics Party,” “The Wicked Pissah Party” – I mean, we could have come up with a LOT of things).

Anyway, the Chestertown Tea Party Festival is a celebration of all things colonial and crafty. There’s all kinds of things happening including parades, clogging, puppet shows, storytelling, cannon firing, a reenactment of tossing the tea into the river (includes the tossing of human cargo as well!), walking tours, sailing on the schooner Sultana, beer and wine tasting, and of course, the infamous Raft Race. Check out the schedule HERE.

We, of course, are MOST looking forward to the Sneaker Creeper on Friday. We’ve been counting down the days for months (really). Last year Alden ran a half lap:

But this year she’s going all the way up to a whole lap.

There’s also our yearly visit with the Parade Crab:

And, most importantly, funnel cakes galore:

If you’d like to know more about Tea Parties past, HERE’s a post, HERE’s a post, and oh man HERE’s a post.

And hopefully we’ll see you this weekend!