So, as promised, I am dedicating this post to our trip to the fair. My fair experience actually began on Thursday evening when I was able to go and see Phil Vassar in concert. Christy was given the tickets for free, and they included free admission into the fair as well, so how could we refuse, right? The concert was okay. I am a fan of country music, I just was not all that familiar with his music. We ended up bowing out a little early and sneaking over to the hypnotist show. Now this is what the fair is to me. Elephant ears and the hypnotist show. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!! It was, as usual, hilarious, and it was so nice to be able to sit through the show uninterrupted by children needing something. It was great to spend an hour just laughing my butt off.
We ended up back at the fair last night with the whole family. Luckily, Christy came through with the free admission tickets once again (gotta love the connections of being a business owner!!). I tell ya, if it weren't for that we woulda broke the bank last night. Holy Cow, THE FAIR IS EXPENSIVE!! I don't know, maybe it's because we spent all summer at Silverwood where we could ride any ride we wanted for free, but I just could not believe the outrageous prices for the ride tickets. Unbelievable. Our kids probably rode 3 rides each and we put out 40 bucks. What a rip off. Of course, the kids were disappointed and mom and dad were as well because the whole point in taking the kids is to see them happy. We even tried telling the kids before we went that we would probably spend most of the time looking at the animals and stuff like that, but those things just don't fly with our kids anymore. And I can't really blame them. I guess the only way to really go to the fair is to purchase the wrist bands for like 30 bucks and let them go all day. We'll have to remember that for next year.
Once again, though, the highlight for everyone I think was the hypnotist show. I was a tad bit worried about the content, because it does tend to get a little racy, but we went for it anyway. It was great to see the kids laughing it up. The only thing that could have made it any better would have been for someone we know to have been up on stage (We almost had Brian up there). The end of the show consisted of a Chippendale's-like bit where the hypnotist has the men that volunteered come back up on stage and shake their booties. Noah and Darian thought it was hilarious when one of the guys' shirts was flung off stage and right at them. Oh geez!!!
All-in-all it was a good time. We enjoyed some good fair treats and, of course, checked out the stinky animals. We were all extremely disappointed that, after searching all over the fair, we were unable to see the kangaroo, as he was not in his cage for some reason. Bummer.
(By the way, would someone mind filling me in on how exactly you can make it so that you can have writing before each picture? Please, please, please? A lot of the time my posts don't make a lot of sense and I would love to be able to explain each pic)
