We saw lots of animals - big, small, furry, slimy, snuggly and creepy-crawly...you name it, we probably saw it today!
Sutton was the only one brave enough to touch this giant carp. He said it it felt "slimy like a fish."
We toured through the farm area and filled in our farm passport with stamps from the different areas. When we had collected all of our stamps we took it back to the booth in exchange for a healthy snack for the whole family. The boys chose milk and huge shiny red apples, and Mitch and I shared a pear and some walnuts. I was super excited to order a 10-pound Farm Fresh box of organic fruit/veggies to be delivered to our house later this week for only $13! I've always wanted to try their service, and this week's selection was chock full of things we are running low on...at such a great discounted fair rate, I couldn't pass it up! :)
After the farm tour, the grown-ups sat down to do a little wine tasting while the kids finished up their snacks.
Then we walked through a few of the exhibits and the outdoor garden area. Everwhere you turned around there were people snapping pictures against the beautiful backdrop, but try as I might, these two just could NOT keep a straight face!
With a lot of coaxing from Uncle Erik, Sutton finally managed to give me ONE picture where he wasn't making a silly face!
The boys jumped at the chance to explore the inside and outside of a fire engine -the firefighters even let them pretend to use the fire hoses. Those things were really heavy!
Mitch & Sawyer took a spin around the track for awhile in a go kart. It looked like a ton of fun!
Poor Sutton wanted to ride the go karts too, but he wasn't tall enough. He kept making his pouty face and saying "I'm not too little. I'm not!" Sawyer just made the cut off at 42" (which was the minimum for quite a few of the rides), so hopefully Sutton will be tall enough to ride the bigger rides next summer.
Stella had a super fun day with her big cousins, but she was getting too hot and sleepy, so Jessi and Erik took her home to rest after lunchtime.
We took a ride on the monorail. Sawyer loved being up so high and being able to see everything, especially all of the carnival rides below. Sutton was so tired that he almost fell asleep on the ride.
We ended the day with a few rides on the kiddy midway. If the fair offers the Read to Ride program again next year, I highly recommend it! We turned in a short book report form for three books that the boys have each read, and in exchange we got three ride tickets for each of them. We figured out that it saved us $18! A good percentage of the rides at the fair were from Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch, and Mitch and I commented to each other about how well kept and nicely painted they were in contrast to the other older carnival rides.
We ended the day with a few rides on the kiddy midway. If the fair offers the Read to Ride program again next year, I highly recommend it! We turned in a short book report form for three books that the boys have each read, and in exchange we got three ride tickets for each of them. We figured out that it saved us $18! A good percentage of the rides at the fair were from Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch, and Mitch and I commented to each other about how well kept and nicely painted they were in contrast to the other older carnival rides.
Sawyer & Sutton rode on a Jeep ride together.
Then Sawyer rode the flying dragons while Sutton rode a jet ski ride (again, he wasn't tall enough to ride the one that Saw went on)
Then they finished up with one last ride together on a different kind of Jeep.
We had an awesome day...but we're exhausted!!!
1 comment:
um, the mj rides are kinda awesome, amusing, interesting, hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time. wish i could have rode a piece of music icon HIStory. yeah, i wrote that! what?!
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