Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Fair is in town!!

One of the highlights each summer is going to the Ventura County Fair.  The kids love it so much, and they talk about all year long!  Friday was the big day - the day we were going to go to the fair!!  I apologize in advance for all the pictures - it was so hard to choose just a few as there were so many cute ones!

We started out looking at the animals, learning from past years that this is best plan of attack.  Since the rides are so thrilling, checking out the animals first decreases the meltdown likelihood, which is an extremely important thing to take into consideration!  In this picture they are looking at rabbits.  Shane really loved the animals - especially the sheep - and probably could have stayed with the animals all day if we let him!

Faith on the roller coaster!  One of the rides she always talks about!  But this year she went without an adult, which she felt very proud about!, and made a friend in line to sit with!

Can't go wrong with Dumbo!

Shane soon realized how much fun all these rides are!!  I thought this was just too cute!

They liked the bumper boats too.  Shane is telling us that he is on boat number three since he is three!

And they both loved the giant slide!  This is yet another ride that we hear about all year long!

We finished up our afternoon at the fair with the petting zoo.  And yes, Shane is kissing the goat!  What can I say?  The boy loves animals!  Thankfully, so does his Aunt Renee!!

After noticing that a goat went to the bathroom, Faith alerted one of the workers and asked to clean up the poop!  Hmmm, I wonder where she gets that from??!!  We had a great time at the fair; it was actually the best fair experience we have had!  The kids were better than we could have imagine.  They were patient, flexible, and didn't put up a fuss when we finally said it was time to go!

Today we went to the annual fair parade.  The kids really enjoyed it all, especially these fire hats handed out by our Congressman!

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