Tuesday morning is the day to enter any crafts or food items you've made during the year. Usually the week or so before the fair I give the kids a couple of boxes and we go on a scavenger hunt through the house to find things we've made during the year to enter. It's always fun and surprizing to see how much we've done through the year! Big T entered 8 items, Little A entered 7, and even I found 3 things to enter. Judging is done on Wednesday and we pick up our items (and ribbons and checks) on Sunday afternoon. So, we'll have to wait 'til then to see how we did.
After entering all our items it was pouring down rain so we walked around inside to look at all the exhibit booths (including our 4H club's) by local organizations, merchants, etc. Then when the rain subsided a bit we went out to the livestock barns to look at all the animals...cattle, goats, ponies, miniature horses, pigs, regular horses, sheep, chickens and other fowl, and rabbits. I forgot to go to the agri building so we missed out on seeing the largest pumpkin and watermelon...I'll have to remember to stop by there Sunday when we pick up our entries.
We decided to leave to eat lunch and I had to get ready for the sewing class that I teach some of our homeschool girls on Tuesday afternoons.
Tuesday evening is Free Admission as well as Armband Night at the fair, so that is usually when I take the kids to go on the rides and eat fair junk (woohoo!). We usually get there around 4:00ish to get good parking and buy our armbands. Also, if you get there around 4:30 many of the rides will go ahead and start and you don't have to wait in line! The crowds usually don't really get going until around 7:30ish and that's usually when we're leaving. Three hours seems to be plenty of time for my kiddos to enjoy all the rides and food and I don't have to drive home in the dark.
It was a bit drizzly but all in all a very fun day!
Here's some pics of Big T and Little A on some of the rides:
Little A on her first ride the merry-go-round
Big T on his first ride the swings
Little A on her favorite one: the tiger slide (I pretty much stood here watching her slide for most of the time we were at the fair)
Big T on the "ride that started it all" ... after this one he was ready to go on all the other 'thriller' rides LOL!
A couple more of Little A on the bumper cars and fun slide:
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