A fair-ly good day

Aaahhhh... the great Minnesota get-together. We certainly did our part, along with hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, walking around the fairgrounds until our legs ached, while eating a variety of greasy and/or sugary food until our stomachs ached. And along the way, we learned a few things. Such as...

The bus ride is still one of the best rides of the day. At least in my kids' opinion.

Other favorite rides are the carousel (shown below) and the big slide. AJ rode down by himself this year, alongside Daddy. Sydney, riding with Mommy, made her first trip down, and would have made her second, third and fourth trips as well if Mommy's legs could have handled carrying her up that mammoth flight of stairs any more times. When we reached the bottom, Sydney, who'd been beaming the whole way down, announced, "That fun!"

We also learned that Sydney does not like real live animals. At all. AJ was fascinated by the sheep, cows and pigs, but Sydney wanted nothing to do with them. She's still commenting, "I don't see animals. I don't see cows. I don't see sheep."

What she did like was sampling the milk shakes from the Empire Building. Daddy had strawberry. Mommy had chocolate. After a couple of spoonfuls of Mommy's, the strawberry got the vote.

Our trip to machinery hill went amazingly quickly. Sydney was napping, so it was just AJ who wanted to climb on the tractors. And even the cool camouflaged hunting 4-wheeler just wasn't as interesting as the dinosaur head toy he'd picked up a few minutes earlier at Dinosaur World.

In keeping with the fair's tagline, it seems for my kids the best part of the day was getting together with their cousins. They were both quite disappointed to learn they can't go back for another year.