John Blue Cotton Festival

I'm a little late on this, but a few weekends ago, we wanted to get out and go to a fall festival so I found one about 45 minutes away called the "John Blue Cotton Festival." It sounds cute and country, right? It was perfect! 

John Blue was a gentleman who patented some tools and machines to use to harvest cotton. He also built his family a mansion and carved a lot of the detailed woodwork on the home.

There were farmers and craftsmen at the festival cooking over fire and building wooden artwork for everyone to watch as they worked. They also had examples of the tools and machinery used to harvest cotton.

Woodwork. They love the Gators even up here in NC!

Cool car they had at the farm:

They had some alpacas and a mule too!

Of course he wanted to play with the little dude haha!

And for the best part...

I grew up eating muscadine grapes at my granny and grandpa's house and they have them everywhere here in NC. So when I saw this booth selling Muscadine Cider Slushies, I HAD to get one! Jimbo actually spotted it for me and knew I'd love it! Good eye, babe!! It was so good too :)