We love festivals. And we love festivals in Boulder, Colorado. Labor Day Weekend, the first weekend in September is one of our favorite festivals. There is a Farmer’s Market.
A Farmers Market in the festival
Yes, we can purchase Colorado lamb and cheerful cut flowers. (Sept 2014)
We like flowers and Colorado lamb
These vegetables are so colorful.
Yum
Makes ducks and humans hungry. Also so many venders here.
Singing Bowls from the Himalayas.
We love the singing bowls from the Himalayas. Kids can get inside balls.
Walking on water in a bubble
Doesn’t this look fun? Or, if you don’t want water, try these bumper balls.
Bumper Balls
And you can watch artists at work.
Artist at work
These are great! But this festival has something special.
So many huge zucchinis
Zucchini Races. Kids can purchase a giant zucchini. The wheels are then put on the zucchini for the young human. There are many choices for these little ones to use for decorating their zucchini.
Work in progress
Now it is time to race.
And the race begins
These races occur every 10-15 minutes, depending when the decorated zucchinis are ready. Isn’t this fun? The young human keeps the decorated zucchini.
Zucchini
If you have ever planted zucchini in your garden, you know that it grows quick. Zucchini is a very prolific plant, so there are always giant zucchinis. Humans can only eat so much zucchini in one summer.
Racing zucchinis
But that is not all for this festival . On Monday, the duck races occur. Of course, we love duck races. Duck races are to raise money for a good cause. The organizers of the duck races have hundreds or thousands of ducks that look almost like us. People or businesses buy (really rent) a duck or ducks. But they are not allowed to touch the duck. Each duck has a number, so humans know which is their duck. All ducks are dropped in Boulder Creek. And the races begin.
Ducks
Many humans are needed to catch the ducks at the finish line.
Wow! At the finish line
The water carries the ducks to the finish line.
Some of the many ducks
The person paying for the winning ducks receive prizes. Everybody loves to watch the ducks race down Boulder Creek. These duck races are very popular and many towns feature duck races in the local festivals. We hope you watch duck races near you and, of course, think of us, the Colorado Traveling Ducks.
Colorado Traveling Ducks 
Gives a good idea of a lovely occasion
It was a lot of fun. Indeed a lovely occasion.
This festival sounds like so much fun, with something for everyone. I hope you didn’t go in the duck races. You might have been lost in the crowd.
We love this festival. We watch our relatives race, but we don’t leave mom or our travel bag during the races. So many ducks! Duck race in Vail, Colorado a couple years ago had over 13,000 ducks racing. We would get lost. Would you send Justin Beaver to find us? We miss his adventures.
Justin needs to get his act together! I’ll see what I can do for you. 🙂
Thanks. We miss him and his adventures.
What a fun event!!! I may have to donate some zucchini next year. I think I’d like those water bubbles!
It’s a great festival. Nice variety. And another use for zucchini.