Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Fair Thoughts
So, I feel a great need to defend our not sending the children on the rides at the fair. Aside from the expense, the last time we took them, it was something like $5.00 a ride per child. We usually let them go on three or four rides each, which adds up. Mostly, though, it has to do with this fair. It is so crowded, and we have to stand guard at the entrance and exit of each ride to make sure the children don't get lost, and keep track of the children who are too big/little to go on that particular ride at the same time.
When we go to the county fair or our local fair, there is much more freedom to let them run off to the ride they want to go to or the exhibit they want to see, or even just to race up ahead of us as we are walking together as a family, because there aren't eleventy billion people there.
This year was kind of a disappointment, too. There just wasn't a whole lot to see in terms of the exhibits. Considering it is such a huge fair, you'd think there would be tons of farm, craft, hobby, art, food, etc things to see, and there really were only a few. Also, even of the few that were there, it seemed you didn't even have to be a resident of our state to enter, so there were things from people in Oregon and other places. Most of the exhibits were commercial, as were most of the shows. There was a pioneer activity area, though, where the children could saw a log, grind wheat, sift flour, grate cinnamon, use a mezza luna type knife and bowl to cut carrots, prime a water pump and pump water, things like that, and that was cool. There were surprisingly few animals and garden areas. Probably so there would be more room for the millions of trash vendors.
Next year, we will make sure that we can go to the two smaller fairs we enjoy.
When we go to the county fair or our local fair, there is much more freedom to let them run off to the ride they want to go to or the exhibit they want to see, or even just to race up ahead of us as we are walking together as a family, because there aren't eleventy billion people there.
This year was kind of a disappointment, too. There just wasn't a whole lot to see in terms of the exhibits. Considering it is such a huge fair, you'd think there would be tons of farm, craft, hobby, art, food, etc things to see, and there really were only a few. Also, even of the few that were there, it seemed you didn't even have to be a resident of our state to enter, so there were things from people in Oregon and other places. Most of the exhibits were commercial, as were most of the shows. There was a pioneer activity area, though, where the children could saw a log, grind wheat, sift flour, grate cinnamon, use a mezza luna type knife and bowl to cut carrots, prime a water pump and pump water, things like that, and that was cool. There were surprisingly few animals and garden areas. Probably so there would be more room for the millions of trash vendors.
Next year, we will make sure that we can go to the two smaller fairs we enjoy.
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