This is the first fair I have ever been to. Growing up my family went to Lagoon A LOT so we never really did the fair. I'm so glad we went. On Thursday night they had a "preview" night where it was free admission, free parking, and all the rides were only a dollar. We thought - WHY NOT! What a great deal. It opened at 6:00 and that is right when Dan got out of class so Jax and I were all ready to go - went and picked up Dan and headed over. We met up with our friends the Parkin's and watched the boys (Jaxon and Carter) ride on the rides. Since Jaxon goes to bed now around 6:30 we knew we wouldn't be staying too long, but we stayed until 8:30 and had a great time. Jaxon has never been on rides (sad I know) so I was really nervous since basically all the little kid rides were for little kids ONLY - adults couldn't ride on them too so I was nervous that he might try and get out or something, but he did great! We went on the Carousel very first and he loved being on the horse. Dan went on that with him and said he just kept yelling cowboy the entire time LOL. When the ride was over and we took him off he screamed and cried. We explained that he would get to ride on another ride if he stopped crying and he got the concept pretty quickly that we were taking him to another ride. He rode in a blue truck, a motorcycle, a helicopter, a 4-wheeler, and on the carousel again. The lines were kinda long so just doing those rides took a while. Dan and I got ourselves a funnel cake to share - YUMMY - and Carter shared his blue cotton candy with Jaxon. I am pretty sure Jaxon has had cotton candy before, I'm not sure though - but he wouldn't eat it. It was so funny - he just held onto it and when I tried to take it away he would say no and that he wanted to hold it - it was pretty funny. But it was a great night - we didn't even end up spending $20 and we had such a good time so to me that is a TOTAL success! Wahoo!
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| Notice Jaxon holding the cotton candy - it stayed like this until we got home haha |
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| His first and Last ride - he loved it. Dan had a blast too! |
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| Blue truck with Carter - Jax couldn't really reach the steering wheel so by the end of the ride he was watching the kids behind them and laughing. |
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| Waiting for the ride to start - he LOVED this ride, there was a "jump" they would go over so they would go higher and he would yell "wahoo" every time. He loved it. |
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| It's hard to see, but LOVE his face in this one. This is when they started lifting them up in the air. He got SOOO excited. He was on the inside so pictures were hard to get but I'm glad I got his face! |
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| He is making sound effects, such a boy! He loved riding these 4-wheelers. |
That looks like so much fun! We should've gone on Thursday, but didn't. :( I convinced Chaz to go this week instead. I enticed him by saying I'd pay for admission. Haha! I'm just nervous they won't much for a 1-year-old to do! Thanks for being my buddy at the RS meeting last night! You are so awesome and I'm so excited for your little girl to come! BTW, are you having a baby shower...?
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! How FUN!!! And don't worry, Owen rode all this first rides this year too...I think two years is a good age for them to start since you can explain things to them about the rides. :) He looks so happy to be on them! Plus it was probably more exciting for him that he could see you guys watching rather than be on it with him. Fairs are a lot of fun, I'm shocked you have never been before. And YES, major success on spending $20!! That's awesome!
ReplyDeleteHow CUTE!!! Jaxon is just too funny, holding that cotton candy all night. Glad to hear that you guys were able to enjoy the fair and not have to spend a lot of money either...best of both worlds! :)
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