William Tell Day 2011

Friday, November 18, was William Tell Day. How did we celebrate?
Jr. woke up that morning and came into the kitchen. In his sleepy voice he asked, "Mom, what day is it today?"
"It's Friday," I told him.
He replied, "No. What holiday is it?"
So I checked the calendar, as I hadn't been thinking about a particular holiday (I was too concerned with the guy coming to put a new heating element in our oven, which he did. Hurray!).
"Oh. It's William Tell Day."
"So what food are we going to eat?" he asked.
Ah ha. Apparently there is a lot of food eating associated with our celebrating. Our son has come to expect it. Well, this was an easy one.
"Apples!"
So there was definitely apple eating. How else did we celebrate?
Nichole took an apple to her school teacher.
There was dancing by Mommy to the short version of the William Tell Overture (no picture of that one), and we listened to the long version (12 minutes and 13 seconds)

in the car on the way to get our Thanksgiving turkey from Stokes Market in Salem, Utah, whose logo happens to be an apple.
This was Jr. Jr.'s reaction to the music.

Jeremy built a large apple out of balloons for the Stokes Market grand opening a few weeks ago.

It was still hanging there when we got to the market, not looking as plump as it originally did in this picture.
We also celebrated by having an archery contest on the Wii, though in the original legend William Tell used a crossbow and not a bow and arrow to shoot an apple off his son's head.

We had fun and Jr. Jr. even joined in.

Sometimes it's nice to know you can celebrate simply. The best thing is doing it together.