At The Fair

This weekend the annual county fair was being hosted in our town. It wasn't advertised very well and I didn't even know it was going on until Dave asked yesterday if I wanted to go that evening. Needless to say, like everything else in this town, there wasn't much that was exciting. We had gone 2 years ago and there was at least a fairway with a few rides and carnival games. This year, those were gone and in their place were a few inflatables for the kids to jump around on. It was definitely kind of pathetic. But hey, there were some exciting things for a 3 year old, and we just so happen to have one of those!

So down we wandered, on the pleasant 80-degree evening, down to the county fairgrounds. First, we ate some pork buns (of course) in a pole barn. Then we went to visit the animals. The first building we went into had the bunnies, hens, roosters, ducks, sheep, and pigs. So we spent lots of time talking to all of them. One of the little sheep was coughing and Ella enjoyed watching his little body spasm with each labored cough. She kept wanting to go back to the "coughing sheep" all evening.



Next we made our way into the building with the larger animals. Huge black steer were in pens on either side of a 6-foot aisle, and Ella hurried through - a little bit afraid of them. The horses were next, and she loved looking at them. Then we walked down an aisle that had cows tied to the walls on either side. There was a little one there that a young boy told us Ella could pet if she wanted to. Of course she did and then asked (as she does with ANY animal) "What's his name?" It was Justine. And Justine's two (much larger) sisters were next to her. Ella thought it was pretty neat that they were sisters.



Next we made our way to a building that someone said had trains in the basement - so we went in to check it out. It was a pretty neat place! There was a rather large basement with a huge miniature train system. It was something we never had known had existed the whole time living here. Ella thought it was a pretty cool place - and I think Dave enjoyed it almost as much! So it was a fun evening - watching Ella's exitement was fun anyway - we even went back again today for one last look at the animals and trains.