Fair

Each year Casey has booth duties at the State fair for the University/Poultry Industry. All of our kids have had their turn helping at the booth. This year the fair happened to be on our fall break, so we decided to go with Casey and play while he worked.

Ryan wanted to help Casey. They had several groups of school age children come through that were excited to see, touch and hold the chicks.

Ry did really good for the first hour, but then started to become a little tired.

This is when he mouthed, "Help me" to Cody....

Andy, Janelle and Seth met us there and Seth was also able to help out for a awhile.

There were a few chickens that were just beginning to hatch or had just barely hatched out of the egg.

Besides touching and holding the chickens, this was the most visited part of the exhibit.

After their shift was over, we ate lunch. Fair food is one-of-a-kind.

We saw clowns

and Tree People

who talked and walked around the fairgrounds posing for pictures with anyone who asked. Although, he didn't like standing still for very long or he would start to make comments...might have been hard standing still for long periods of time on stilts. He was pretty popular.

It was pretty hot, so Seth was thirsty and always looking for shade

Trying to make his own shady spot-

It was a great day and brought back many memories of going to the fair with my own family as a child(pictures below). Each summer we would gather the troops and head to the Lane County Fair in Eugene Oregon. There are many fun memories, like the time I stepped in the water when I was getting out of the boats, so my shoes and socks were soaked the rest of the day. Or the time dad left the car lights on and our battery was dead when we came out, and it was raining very hard as dad attempted to get us going. There was also the time when we went to the fair and it was so hot. We had to make a stop for dad to get some shorts(dad NEVER wore shorts). The only shorts we found were Bermuda shorts with little sharks all over them, man I wish we had pictures of those - so many good times!

We didn't have any crazy experiences this year. Well, except for the $130 ticket Janelle got on the way there(sorry Janelle). All-in-all it was a fun day at the fair!