The Wichita Falls Watermelon Festival.
The Watermelon Festival takes place in downtown Wichita Falls at the Farmers Market, with this being the biggest event of the year at the Farmers Market.
I knew going in that free slices of watermelon was part of the festival. I did not know that free cups of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream was also part of the festival.
I had myself many slices of watermelon, but I passed my cup of Bell Bell to a fellow festival goer.
There were a lot of Wichita Fallers in attendance today, making for the best people watching I have had the pleasure of watching in a long time.
The most entertaining part of today was something I did not think I would find all that entertaining.
That being the Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest. It was very amusing. But, before we get to that, let's look at some other Wichita Falls Watermelon Festival scenes.
As you can see, watermelons were not the only melons at today's festival. The Farmers Market has all sorts of produce available, and other stuff of the crafty arts genre. The large crowd and all that produce gave today, at this location in Wichita Falls, a sort of a Seattle Pike Place Market feel.
The lady above seems to be pondering with extreme gravity the array of vegetables confronting her.
I have seen pumpkins carved artfully before, but never have I seen other fruits and vegetables carved as artfully as this lady was carving.
Well, it is almost time for the Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest.
But, before the spitting can start the above lady and her melons needs to move out of the designated spitting zone.
Each spitter gets three seeds to spit. First up was this guy, spitting the first distance to beat. If I remember right the next up ended up being the winner in the 14 and under category.
This kid was extremely animated with his watermelon seed spitting.
And then we move on to the 15 and above category with this lady who became the distance to beat, spitting, if I remember right, well over 20 feet.
This lady also did a good job of seed spitting. She also got praise for her watermelon themed outfit.
And then we had the winner.
The Master of Ceremonies informed us that this guy won his first watermelon seed spitting contest when he was a fifth grader. When he spit out his first seed it was all over. That seed sailed so far it took awhile, and several seed spotters, to spot it.
44 feet 7 inches.
At the award ceremony the above winner was asked what the secret was of his astounding spitting ability.
Extra hot air was his answer....
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