State Fair Photos

It's hard to match up wording to photos since blogs sometimes shift order so here's some basics:

We took photos from the biggest ferris wheel (and the sky ride), you can see the city's skyline in the background in a few pictures. Jordan loved her ice cream, she's spent 3 weeks trying to drop a few pounds to fit into a new shirt she has with a monkey on it. She did it, so I let her get a small cone as a treat. Logan went on his first roller coaster today - all by himself. The kids loved the hydro slide, it's a smaller version of Canobie Lake Park's Boston Tea Party ride back in NH.

Adam stayed home to work on school and babysit (his choice, I begged him to come, and he gets paid to babysit 2 girls Jordan plays with).

What else can I tell you? Oh, the strange photo that's first is looking straight up through the ferris wheel's spokes. I think it's the biggest one I've ever been on, but I don't know how tall it was.

ENJOY!

The State Fair

This is the time of year we have our huge state fair. I went with Tim when we first got married back in 1992. We've lived here for years now and never brought the kids. It runs for a few weeks, but it's either too expensive or not convenient, but this week, we're going to try to go on my day off. Their last experience was the Rochester Fair in NH. It was small, very "country", had a tiny petting zoo, a few rides that were expensive, no music or entertainment, not much to do. It's okay when the kids are little, but with them being 14, 12 and 10, it takes more to amuse them these days.

We'll hopefully get to see things that will expose them to the surrounding cultures in this part of the country, maybe they'll get to try new foods (no, we won't try deep-fried CocaCola or anything too unhealthy), maybe they'll even see an entertainer or two.

Anyway, with them getting so big so quickly, I really hold every moment with them as being very precious. I'm looking forward to spending the day with them playing. I don't like our only interaction to be school or chore-related.

If we make it there, I'll post photos.