county fairs...part II

the fair is fun.

i LOVE fairs and carnivals.

i love the sicky, sticky, sweet smell of cotton candy and cooking grease from all the fried foods.

i love the sound of kids screaming and the hummm of generators.

i love seeing the smile on my lil girl's face when she's at the fair.

i like watching her ride (walking in a cirlce) the ponies like it's her first time...EVER to be on a horse.  even though she has ol Popcorn at home that she rides all by herself.

but she liked Sassy Girl.  probably because Sassy Girl has short legs like her momma. :)

i like seeing her be couragious and brave and try new things.

like this big slide.  the Titanic. 

she zoomed down the slide and went back for more...over and over and over and over again.

this kiddiepillar was lots of fun.  lots of fun surprises inside to play on and the generators blow hard through that tunnel so it's also a wind tunnel.  when they come out the end...it looks a lil strange.  a little like childbirth. (i am just sayin) it does.

she even tried the Sponge Bob swing (she was bored) and the Moon Bounce (bored).

then we took a break from the rides and got a sweet tea.

then she talked me into this cat face.  it was cute face art but NOTHING like the face painting my BFF Brandi Michelle can create. (BFF stories coming to a blog near you...soon)

anyway...a trip to the fair is always a great way to spend a BEAUTIFUL fall day in September.  any day is a great day to be at the fair.

i love the fair.

my lil girl is the 2009, 5 year old county tractor pull champion at our county fair this year.
she also received blue and red ribbons on her art exhibit entries.

i will always go to the fair. 

i will be a volunteer at the county fair when i am old.

my BFF (she's a fair lover herself) will probably have to drag me out each year....like these ladies.
and.....we will probably have rears like these too.

it will come from many years of enjoying fairs and their cotton candy and fried foods.

o how i love the fair!  it's a love-a-fair!

county fairs......part I

took my lil girl to a county fair today. 

we had fun. 

we saw stuff that is typical at county fairs.

and we saw stuff i've never seen before and that i'm sure i don't wanna see again.

we were walking through this group of people when all the sudden a woman carring a goose pushed through the crowd saying......excuuuuussee me!! 

she then drops this goose in a cage that had 100 numbers on the bottom of the cage.

in my mind i was thinking they were waiting for it to lay a GOLDEN egg.

then i turned to the lady next to me and said, "so...what's goin on? what's the duck doin in the cage?"
(at this point a big burly guy in a tank top and a mullet (i swear) yells out, "you might be a redneck if.........!")

"well, she said, we are waitin to see what number the duck poops on.  we paid 5 dollars for a square and there's 100 squares.  the winner gets $250 bucks.  then they "drawd" numbers and i got number 19.  i really don't have a chance but it sure is fun to watch."

fun?  really? 
i didn't think so....so we just walked away.

i have no idea who won.  it looked like it was going to take a while.

that poor duck had stage fright. 

so would i.

when i got home i found out that they do the same little "goose and poop" game with cows and cowpies on a field.  kev told me.

i told you my husband was smart.  apparently he's all "learned" when it comes to gambling poop games.

how did i not know that?

you'd think a farm girl would know that!

o well, now i know.

now you know....................