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What Up Weekend with Melissa 5-24-24 · The Erica Show

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  What's going on as Erica DeLong and Trevor, and we have Melissa from five
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  weston Midtel magazine on the phone giving us this scoop all the cool stuff going
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  on this weekend, which is a holiday weekend. Hey Melissa, h what
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  do we have? I know there's a ton of events. Yeah, there's
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  a lot going on, but I have narrowed it down to my top three.
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  Okay, okay. The First Fruits Memorial Balloon Festival takes place both Saday
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  and Sunday from three to ten at First Fruit Farm in Louisbourg, gab it
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  Ben. It is a gorgeous farm and they do amazing things out there for
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  the community. This festival features on the ground and in the air entertainment,
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  fireworks, a mass balloon ascension and they have teathered ride too, so there's
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  something for everybody. It really is so much fun. My kids loved it
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  the last time we went. Yeah, it's really quite something to see.
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  And also this is for the sugartooths or sugar teeth? Is it tooths?
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  I don't know, Well, don't ask me. I'm country. I'd be
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  like sugartooths. So the sugar tooths out there it's the North Carolina Sugar Rush
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  Dessert Food Rodeo. It's coming to City Plaza in downtown Raleigh this Sunday from
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  noon to seven, So satisfy that sweet tooth with goodies for more than twenty
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  vendors, enjoy live music. There's treats for pets. So oh that's great.
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  Sweet okay. And what's the third thing that was your top three for
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  the weekend? The Raleigh Convention Center. It's Japanese animation and cultural celebration called
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  an Amazement. It is Friday through Sundays. So it's one of those costplay
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  events. So anybody that likes anime or comic books things like that. There's
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  educational panels, merchandise, meet and greet, autograph sessions. It really should
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  be a lot of fun and amazing people watching, even if you're not into
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  anime. Like Big Weather from ABC eleven, he always gets a good shot
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  out the window when people are walking to and from me. He's like,
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  it is definitely a people watching situation. Yeah, you've got to go and
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  costume and go people go all out. Oh yeah, they do, like
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  sit and just park a couple chairs at redh Theater and just people watch Okay,
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  so where can they get more details if they missed it from today,
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  Check us out at five westmag dot com and Midpound mag dot com. Okay,
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  thank you, have a great holiday weekend guys,