Covered Bridge Fest 2005

This past Saturday, my mom and sister and I went to the Parke Co. Covered Bridge Festival. We headed to Bridgeton, IN, where we like to buy things from the same vendors, and where it's generally less crowded. I brought $60 and spent it all. :) We had lovely weather, and the place did get crowded as the day wore on. We got there around 9:30am, and left around 3pm. It was a long day.

The sad thing to see (or not see, since all the debris was removed) was the Bridgeton covered bridge, next to the mill. Some idiot burned it down--but it's going to be rebuilt.

People travel from all over to go to this festival. We met a family from Joliet, IL, while we were eating a blackberry dumpling. The festival runs from the second Friday in October through the following weekend (Oct. 15--23 this year).