Wilson Adventures

We made a quick visit to the State Farmers Market Saturday morning with Kristilyn (where Simon soaked himself in the drinking fountain) and then headed to the small town of Wilson, about an hour away. Our first stop in Wilson (after shakes and fries from Cookout) was Whirligig Park. It's home to many of Vollis Simpson's kinetic sculptures. It was a windy day which really made the sculptures move. It was really cool to watch all of them. The park is still under construction and the kids quickly figured out that they could talk to each other through all of the corrugated tubing. It was pretty funny.

Our main reason for visiting Wilson was to see their annual outdoor photo festival, "Eyes on Main Street." One hundred large-scale photographs from 100 photographers around the world are displayed on buildings and store windows along the main street of Wilson. The photographs were fantastic and the location was just as interesting, wandering along this old, seemingly deserted main street. There were so many great photo ops. We passed a fun mural and we also took a break from our photo stroll and popped into the Wilson Children's Museum which the kids loved. There were some great photography exhibits in there as well.