Chuc

After the Nuts! Over Art festival, we drove out to Chucalissa for the annual Southeastern Heritage Festival & Crafts Show. Most of Warren's coworkers are involved with Friends of Chucalissa, and he's spent a good deal of time working and studying there. The kids have been a few times, but it's been awhile. We arrived too late for the social and pow wow dancing, but we did get to see a mean game of stick ball. The fact that we got to eat meat pies while watching the game was even better. (Mmmm meat pie! It's just ground beef and cheese wrapped up in fry bread. Jiro convinced us to try it with ketchup, mustard, and pickles.)


We worked off our meat pies on a little hike through the trails. The incessant rain of the last few weeks had washed up several artifacts. The boys were really excited about finding flakes and pottery shards.

We were also really psyched to see a table with animal skins and handmade bows and arrows. They were going to let the monkeys try them out once the stick ball was over. Luckily, the game lasted a long enough time for the monkeys to forget this offer!

All in all, it was a lovely way to spend the afternoon.