Lakewood Community Festival: Family Friendly Fun
The Lakewood Community Festival took place on Saturday, September 12, 2009, at Madison Park in Lakewood from 12 pm– 5 pm. The festival was a family friendly event with everything from pony rides to a rock climbing wall. There was also an inflatable bounce house for the younger set, as well as many bubble blowing stations to keep the little ones entertained. “The Bubble Guy” roamed the park with a bucket full of soap and long bubble wands, enchanting the crowd by creating incredibly large and uniquely shaped bubbles with the sweep of an arm. Activities were plentiful including a water balloon toss, alpaca and rabbit petting, rides in the Euclid Beach Rocket Car, and many others. A band, using the tennis court as a stage, played a nice variety of peppy tunes at a ear pleasing decibel.
A wide variety of food was available to choose from including hot dogs, pizza, sloppy joes, pierogi’s, cabbage and noodles, stuffed cabbage, kielbasa and sauerkraut, pulled pork sandwiches, a selection of barbecue fare, egg rolls, and more. The food was very reasonably priced compared to other summer festivals, and this encouraged the crowd to try a variety of items. The food vendors were set-up around the outer edges of the pavilion so traveling from one vendor to the next was not the shoulder-to-shoulder bustle usually experienced. There were plenty of picnic tables to choose from as well.
Overall, the event was a wonderful experience for this family of two young toddlers. If it hadn’t taken place during nap time we would have stayed for the duration and had dinner there as well. As it was, we took two sleepy tots home and tucked them in their beds while marking our calendars for next year’s event.