Fair Day

As a late birthday day for Papa and a early anniversary for us both we chose to go to the County Fair. It was such a beautiful sunny day, a little on the warm side, though none of us were going to complain. We spent a lot of time at the rides, as Selena wanted to ride as many of them as she could. Her a Papa went on the Ferris Wheel, Selena’s all time favorite ride. I took  her on the Octopus, she barely remembered riding the Octopus when we were in Spokane and Uncle TJ took her on it a couple of years ago. She wasn’t sure she liked it, but forbid me to ask the attendant to stop it. She went on numerous of rides by herself and totally had a great time.

Of course when Selena and I were riding on the rides and Papa had the camera, he didn’t think to get any pictures. Why is it I never can get him to take pictures of Selena and I?

Just look at how much she has grown in two years. Wow! We couldn’t leave the fair without riding the ponies. Selena got the larger pony, and faster pony. She had a lot of fun riding him.

What would the fair be without stopping and checking out as many of the animals we could. We looked at all the rabbits, chickens, and goats. We even got to see two alligators, and a beautiful wolf. I couldn’t get close enough to get pictures of the alligators or the wolf. Selena loved the wolf, and if she would have had her way she would have walked right through the crowd to get as close as she could, of course that didn’t happen.

We also had to stop and have ice cream. Selena made sure of that, she wasn’t leaving the fair without ice cream.

With our souvenir in hand we said a wonderful farewell to the fair. We will be back again maybe next year.

Our County fair might be small, but we have yet been disappointed with anything over the years of going. We look forward to many more years of attending the County Fair.

Happy Anniversary

Twelve years ago, Papa and I got married. Papa brought these roses home and surprised me. Look at the color of that center rose, it is the most gorgeous rose I think I have ever seen, kind of an off white with a real pretty purple center.

We are spending our Anniversary the best way we know, taking Selena to the fair. Enjoying our special day with the special angel who has been placed in our care to love and nurture.

We got up Saturday morning ready to go to the fair. The sun was shining! Get this it jumped from 45 degrees to 95 degrees in one day! With the humidity factor I bet it was 100+ degrees out. We headed off to the fair anyway. A wee bit disappointed as most of the animals had already been taken home from the extreme heat, so there wasn’t much to see when we got there. There were a few cows, sheep, chickens, and rabbits, but that was about it.

However, Selena did get to see two live elephants.

  We didn’t pay for her to ride though. Instead we headed her in the direction of the pony rides.

She was thrilled to be a little cowgirl for a little bit. She kept telling the horse, “Come on let’s go!” or “Go horse Go!”

She then found a little train that she had to ride three times which took her all around the fairgrounds, she didn’t want to get off it, luckily it was free.

We finally got so hot we had to leave. We were all sweltering, and having had way too much sun, we made our way home where we cooled off and Papa took us out to dinner to finish off our Anniversary.