On Saturday we went to the Puyallup Fair. It was the last Saturday of the fair, so needless to say, it was extremely busy, but we still had a great time. We've been having random bouts of extreme sunshine (I believe it was like 81 outstide), so we loved the sunshine and spending time together.Olivia and Hudson (and let's be honest Mat) loved seeing all the animals...
Olivia loved squeezing herself into spaces so she could pet them (most likely illegally so)
This one is kind of asking to be pet...so it's okay...
Olivia gets really excited when she sees blonde animals...
Mat enjoyed a fried snickers (it's a snickers dipped in funnel-cake like batter, fried, the covered in chocolate syrup)
Olivia went with frozen yogurt as her treat...we have very similar tastebuds (although I didn't put mike-n-ikes in mine...). Hudson's treat was the $1 cotton candy I snuck into the fair. I passed it while I was shopping earlier in the day and knowing how much it would cost at the fair and knowing that once they saw it, they (Olivia speaks for both of them) would want it...I became the world's coolest mom (or Mary Poppins) somehow pulling a bag of cotton candy from my purse...and keeping the five extra dollars it would have cost to buy it at the fair to spend on ride(s).
Oh fair rides...I HATE fair rides...they scare me (thanks Mom), they're too expensive, and they last like 14 seconds...but Olivia really wanted to go... so we told her she could pick two rides. She picked her two rides, we bought the necessary 13 tickets (seriously fair workers...13 tickets for two rides...) and waited in line. She was so excited...
We shouldn't have been one of the first ones...because the longer it took for that ride to get started the more nervous she got...this face, it's not as excited....
and then...wait for it...uh oh.
here is the problem, I already paid for that ride...and we don't want her to think that rides aren't fun and that crying means you don't have to do things and that she's not brave...so we got back in that line and paid for me to go on. She was the sobbing kid and I was the crazy mom telling her it wasn't that high (it wasn't) and it would be so much fun (it was), that Hudson would love seeing her swing....and I won (I usually do)...and look, by the end...no hands!!!
And we went round and round having a great time watching Hudson cry the whole time. Luckily, the ride only lasted 14 seconds.
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Hey, we were at the fair Saturday too. Had I only known about the fried snickers bars!! I love the series of pictures of Olivia waiting for her ride to start - so funny!
Remember going to the Blackfoot fair and Mat wanting to go check out the bulls balls? Only Mat would do that! The picture of Olivia crying and then the two of you on the swing crack me up! I'm so glad that you "won" and she loved it!
Crap...this is Doggett.
I figured that out by the story, haha...thanks ISU!!
Looks like fun! I also hate fair rides-we were able to skip those this year because we let Noah go on a huge trampoline ($5) that had bungee cords attached to him. Chloe doesn't as yet like rides (she is scared) so we were good with that. I love the cotton candy in your purse-I was very tempted to do just that at the circus cause I knew the kids would want some. But they check your purses and stuff ( I contemplated going up a cup size just for that night... ;) ) seriously $10 for cotten candy! And the kids would want one of their own so $20!! needless to say we told them no and then listened to them ask for it about 100 million more times...:)
You seriously crack me up!!!
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