Unfortunately this year’s Edmonton Fringe overlapped with the arrival of our new baby so I didn’t get a chance to check out any of the ticketed shows. However, since we live in the neighbourhood, we took the opportunity to walk over and visit the festival grounds on the last day of Fringe. Robert slept in his stroller pretty much the whole time. How many kids can say they attended their first Fringe Festival at one week old?!

While we missed the paid shows we did see some buskers during our perusal of the festival grounds. My favourite was this hula-hooper and her rather elaborate underwater-themed routine:

As with all the other summer festivals I’ve experienced since moving to Edmonton, there was plenty of opportunity for “festival food”, however I was strong and did not succumb to the siren call of the mini-donuts this time around. Instead we checked out the non-food vendors. My former Vancouver Synchro teammate, Cheryl, was there with her local jewelry business – Cloud and Lolly – and I picked up a couple of her funky pendants made from Scrabble tiles. My other favourite vendor was Geekware, which makes gift items from reclaimed computer hardware. Their Macbook power button earrings are definitely on my wish list now.