A day at the Fair

As a child my parents took us to the fair each summer. My father would enter produce and flowers from his garden under the names of my brothers and me. My children have never been to the fair. Since Dale had off work this week, the week of the fair, we decided to take them.
There was a man on stilts at the fair when I was a child too!

Kenzie, Ashton, Kaden, Kassie, Dale and I took a wagon ride while Brady, Bryson and Avery walked the fair grounds.

Bryson gets his gear on.

Bryson, Kenzie and Avery spent some of their own money to climb the rock climbing wall.

Kenzie wore flip flops to the fair so she and I switched shoes so she could climb the wall.

Avery, waiting his turn.

A large chunk of our time was spent watching the horse pulling contest. Kaden was bored with that after ten minutes, so we had to take turns walking around the fair with him.

After a couple of hours Uncle Sam traded his stilts in for a monkey. The monkey took a quarter from Kaden's hand, gave him a high five and "kissed" him on the nose!

I ran into Mr. Carver, a friend of the family that I hadn't seen in many years. I also ran into my mother's cousin and his wife, Mike and Lisa, who I also have not seen in years. The fair seemed much bigger to me as a child, perhaps it was. It was still enjoyable. On the way home we stopped at McDonald's to get ice cream cones. We had already spent enough money at the fair, so decided to save a little by getting our evening treat elsewhere.