Twins Days

We drove up to Twinsburg, OH this past weekend for the Twins Days Festival. It was honestly pretty cool and so weird to see so many identical twins in one place. Friday night there was a hotdog dinner at Twinsburg High School for all the registered twins and their families. We preregistered for the festival in hopes to have the twins' names published in the program but we got their information in too late.

It was superhero themed this year. Perfect for my superhero loving boys!

On Saturday morning we got up and headed to the parade. We were a little late but still got to see a good chunk of it. Since the boys were registered they could have walked with all the twins in the parade but I'm sure they would have just whined the whole entire time since that is what the did most of the morning anyway. They did enjoy collecting as much candy as they could that was thrown into the crowd.

After the parade we walked to the high school and then rode a little shuttle down to the festival. The boys quit whining and complaining about wanting to go home and watch a movie as soon as they saw the rides. After they rode as many rides as they could we headed over to the white tents. They had twin contests, people selling crafts and other junk, food, and (what we were most excited about) twin research. Aaron thought it was pretty cool that they had tents set up with people conducting research. The boys were too young for a lot of the studies but we did fill out some information for research on skin disease. At the end a physician came over to look at the boys and do a mole count. The doctor commented on their red cheeks (they get really red when they are hot) and I mentioned that it runs in my family and my brother has really red cheeks. He made a note that they would be good to look at in 15 years.

We didn't do this study because they boys weren't old enough but there was a whole area of different tents set up with tables and researchers.

 Aaron and I were busily filling out paperwork when all the sudden I realized the boys were just going throw the suckers as fast as they could.

The boys were really impressed with the identical twins from Canada. They had on some pretty crazy costumes and ran around with their arms out in front of them - they even sang a theme song wherever they went. They mentioned that the boys might not get it now but when they are older there is the twins festival and then their is the "twins festival." What you are seeing here is the hung over phase of the festival. They were pretty funny.

Identical twins with identical twins. It was so bizarre seeing so many identical twins with other identical twins.

 One tuckered out little girl.

I think what they boys enjoyed most were the hotel rooms since we had an adjoining room with grandma and grandpa. We had freshly renovated rooms so that was a plus. We rented Avengers one night and went swimming in the pool. The drive wasn't even that bad since we finally got to see another side of Ohio besides North I-75.

People came from all over. We talked to one couple that had 2 sets of twins in a year and a half. Later we saw adult triplets and one of them had triplets. Crazy!