ND State Fair

The food was expensive, it was HOT, the place was packed, we had to drive almost two hours to get there and the kids wanted to "come back tomorrow!" 

Ahhhhh summertime. 

Joey and Julia (behind dino neck) enjoying their first fair ride.
Man, have the prices for riding gone up or am I just old enough to remember
25cent rides?
3.00 seems like highway robbery!



Lego had some cool stuff.



I know, this looks like a cool jungle gym, please please, Mom, PLEAASE.
We had to pay 3.00 to send Jacob in to rescue them from the
suspension bridge.



More cool lego.

I popped balloons to win Julia a little elephant which ended up costing me $10.00.  So then Allen tried to get a Pikachu for Jacob and something for Jo and we dropped another $25.00 before we remembered  "Wait, we're at the fair.  We're probably being scammed by Carnies."  and put our money away. Though not before Allen got Joey a little dog and Jacob his pokemon. Then we had about ninety minutes on the way home to explain the art of carnival workers to Jacob.

Julia and I shared a foot long corn dog.  We ate Shaved Ice and didn't even make it into the displays. Jacob paid a dollar to see the world's smallest horse then wanted Allen to pay five dollars (for an adult) to come see it.  Allen said he was more than happy to have Jacob describe it to him.  Next year we may take our tent and camp overnight, many people do or maybe our motorhome or maybe just a hotel.  I wonder how long we would have to stay at the fair before our kids begged for mercy.......

We had a blast!