Spring Fair

We attended the 20th anniversary of the Spring fair (it was a record breaker too…118,557 in attendance) for the first time. It was a whole day of adventure with tons of things to see, lots of things to do, and tons of fair food! Enjoy!

Isabel’s first fair game and she won the “BIG” prize all by herself…

A duck! Later in the day she won another duck and she calls this one the “momma” and the other one is the “baby”, because it’s smaller.

After walking around for about an hour trying to find a kiddie ride for Isabel to ride on. We ended up playing another game…and she won at this one too!

She caught a fish and won a prize…

A turtle…just like “Crush” in “Finding Nemo”.

After this game, we again walked around some more trying to find a ride Isabel’s size and then realizing all the really long lines were for the kiddie rides! We decided we didn’t want to spend the whole day waiting in a line, so we walked through all the exhibits and saw crafts, artwork, and lots (lots and lots) of animals! We saw miniature horses, pygmy goats, llama’s, pigs, chickens (didn’t know there were some really gorgeous chickens!), ducks, roosters, cows, rabbits, baby turkey’s, and miniature donkey’s. We even got to see the DockDogs preform, which Isabel thought was very fun and entertaining!

After walking around seeing all the animals, we headed over to the giant Ferris wheel hoping to get on board. Unfortunately Isabel was to short to ride; even with an adult! You can’t tell by the look on her face but she was so upset that she couldn’t ride. Bummer…maybe next year!

On our way out of the fair grounds I happened to notice a building sign that read “kids crafts”. I was curious and we entered inside and realized this was the place we needed to start our day at! The building was full of crafts for kids (most were FREE) and learning areas for them to explore. Isabel had a blast!

Spin art with a Frisbee!

Before…

After.

After the spin art we headed over to a table and Isabel made a bracelet with beads and a rice shaker necklace. There were other tables with other things to do as well, but we were so hungry and tired we didn’t get to see or do them all…maybe next year…

Music tree.

Next year we’ll have to find this building again and do all this stuff first…maybe…I did overhear a lady say that at that moment it was her first “break” in the crowd all day. So maybe it was good we did this last, we didn’t have to “fight” the crowds…