Friday, April 15, 2011

What's a Candola you ask?

Do you remember this post? Where we went down to Miami to see the Red Bull Flugtag? Well last weekend, Tyler noticed a banner like the one below announcing another Red Bull event that we felt like we couldn't miss. It's the Red Bull Candola and it was just down the street from our house.

 In this event, instead of making flying machines, this was all about people making creative boats and then trying to float them down the river. How could that not be fun to watch right? We decided to meet up with some of our friends and head over. This is what the day had in store for us:



This was our favorite... a giant cooler? I love it.
 
A tent on an air mattress? Are you kidding me? Unfortunately,
when this guy set sail, he lost everything but the mattress.
 
These guys were fantastic, not only because of their
costumes but because they were giving away otter pops to
the kids, therefore Owen's favorite by far.
  
So patriotic!
   
YAY for the Mulcocks who are always up for things
like Candola!
  

I'll be honest, when we first decided to go to this Red Bull function, we were kind of hoping for more boats to fail, or more people to fall off their boats, etc. There were only two out of 20 that weren't successes. We weren't as disappointed as we thought we'd be though. We actually kind of loved watching all of these creative people figure out how to float boats.

Owen loved playing by the water and watching the all the boats.

He also made a new friend. Cute right?




And look how well our favorite one did? Totally floated...
Good work guys!
I don't know about you guys but I think any time Red Bull puts on a function, if it's anything like the last two... we'll be there.

3 comments:

Side of Jeffrey said...

Who cares about otter pops - they let you touch their sword!

Tyanna said...

How fun!!! I can see Kris wanting to build a boat and participate in this event. I can see me discouraging it for fear of him drowning. But I would always encourage us being spectators especially if we were watching with the Rhodes and Mulcocks! Wish we could have been there.

Unknown said...

I feel bad for the tent people. That stinks to lose everything.
But it looks like such a fun thing. not something you see every day.
I would love the outter pop one too!