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This year was no different, except we brought along Uncle Timmy, and my daughter, and the stroller, and sunblock, and a cooler with ice packs to keep bottled water and her teething toys cool, and plenty of toys, and plenty of diapers, and several changes of clothes, and oh, good grief I don&#8217;t even remember what all we brought. But it wasn&#8217;t enough, even though most of the items we did bring were not used.\u00a0 What we should have brought were a bunch of chairs, a canopy, and a solar powered personal air conditioning device (has anyone even invented one of these yet? if not, get on it stat!).<\/p>\n<p>By far the coolest thing that happened in that 100 degree weather was the discovery of a booth selling electric bagpipes. Electric! Bagpipes! Meaning they have <strong>volume control<\/strong>, or you can even plug in headphones and the old man can pipe away without making a peep. But that&#8217;s not the cool part. Aaron\u00a0was trying out the pipes, rocking out on a song by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedtinkers.com\/\">Wicked Tinkers<\/a> when in walked Aaron Shaw with a huge smile on his face. &#8220;Great Job!&#8221; he said when my husband stopped playing. Who is Aaron Shaw? He&#8217;s the piper for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedtinkers.com\/\">Wicked Tinkers<\/a> and he wrote the song my husband was playing.\u00a0 How often does an artist get to perform a work (and perform it well) in front of the person that created it? \u00a0My husband\u00a0was riding that high for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much in the way of pictures from the games &#8211; nobody tells you how much harder it is to take photographs when you&#8217;re trying to keep tabs on a little one.\u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t complain too much, I even had two helpers with me. But in lieu of photos, I will leave you with the Wicked Tinkers on Craig Ferguson. 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