Market Day

Since we have been in this part of Texas (the Hill Country), we keep seeing ads for Market Day in many of the small towns. They always seem to be on alternate days- first Saturday of the month in one town, 2nd Saturday in another and so on. We thought we would check it out today. We went to Wimberly, a tiny town on the Blanco River, north of where we are staying.

We took our time getting there--small town, not a big deal---NOT . Market Day is a big deal. Traffic through the town was bumper-to-bumper and parking proved to be a bit of a challenge. It turns out there were 465+vendor booths over 16 wooded acres. They were selling everything from antiques to hand crafted items. Karen especially liked these old window frames filled with dried Texas wildflowers-alas, she could not figure out how that would fit in the motorhome! It is always fun to look at these things.
There were a number of food booths selling Texas stuff-salsas, BBQ sauces and dips. Let me tell you-candied jalepenos do NOT taste like candy ! The sign said sweet and hot--it should have said sweet and HOT !!
The handi -craft people put that 5 point Texas star on everything from baby toys to toilet seats (we really saw one!) How 'bout this multi-story birdhouse? It could accomodate a pretty large group of birds.
That was a pretty popular booth-they were selling the birdhouses at a brisk pace. We did not see anyone buy the toilet seat but they were looking! It turned out to be a sunny, hot (90 degrees) day so we were pretty hot and tired by the time we saw everything (or almost everything) at the Market. It was fun to see though. Remember I said they sold antiques? Well, when we were getting into our car, we saw a couple carrying an old, antique tin cowboy bath tub (like you see in the movies)-wonder what they were going to do with that???