Last Friday Dave’s quartet sang at the Elkhart County Fair in Indiana.
It’s a huge fair. David loves to go the fair, so the two of us tagged along. Wade stayed with Grandma and Grandpa for the day.
Of course David mostly just wanted to go on the rides. He was yelling at me to stop taking pictures of him when he was on the little train. I think I was embarrassing him in front of the other kids. It’s about time. He’s been embarrassing me since he was about a year old. (Faces of innocent bystanders have been obscured.)
David is tall enough this year that he can go on many of the rides, but he had to have an adult with him on several. Dave got elected to do that.
Did I mention that it was cold and overcast that day. More like a day in October than July. But it was kind of nice to not be boiling hot while we spent the day at the fair.
I have more photos of David on the rides, but I’m saving those for my next post.
David also got to go on a pony ride.
We did get to take a little time after we hit the midway to visit the animal barns. It was a good opportunity to teach our child who’s never been on a real farm important life lessons like:
1. Don’t stand right behind a cow because it may kick you.
2. Don’t step in the manure.
3. That smell is the pigs.
One thing we got see that I thought was really cool was draft horses being prepared to be hitched up. If you’ve never seen one of these animals up close, Wow! They are enormous. His hoof is bigger than my head. But aren’t they beautiful? They’re kind of like Great Danes. You want to take one home with you because they’re so neat, but you don’t haven anywhere to keep it, and you can’t afford to feed it.
What’s a trip to the fair with0ut sampling the food? Everyone with the quartet was treated to Port-A-Pit BBQ for lunch courtesy of the fair. Anyone who lives in Michiana knows what Port-A-Pit is. It’s pretty famous there.
But I couldn’t leave without trying of the many deep-fried treats there were to choose from. Deep-fried Oreos, Snicker’s Bars, Twinkies, Captain Crunch, Cheese Cake and more I can’t remember. I picked the deep-fried S’more.
Oh. My. Word.
Heaven on a stick! It seriously was super yummy. I kind of wanted to try the deep-fried pickles too, but I thought one arty clogging treat a day was enough.
Well, that’s our day at the fair, except for my David story I’ve saved for last.
That’s the next post.
Looks like David was having a great time! I didn’t think he was old enough to be embarrassed yet.
I have read on a couple other blogs of people going to the fair. Ours is always in the fall, and for some reason, I just assumed everyone elses was too.