Ah, the Fair

We Egberts love the Fair. We had such a wonderful time yesterday. Jasper and Gid, of course, enjoyed the rides best of all. Rob says his favorite part was the big slide and the scones (first he said, "being with you guys...". My dear cute, husband). My favorite part is the hobby and art competition displays. I love to see the blue ribbon winners. It's so exciting to me. I think I'll enter something next year. My sister, Anna, just moved to Arkansas and she had a friend ask her if she'd entered anything into the fair. Isn't that great! I'm going to start asking people around here that question!

Here are all the different categories that people can enter into:
Agriculture & Horticulture, Home Arts, Amateur Beer & Wine Making, NW International Photo Salon, Cattle- Beef, Photographers Exhibition, Cattle- Dairy, Jr/Sr High Art Show, Fine Art, Pigeons, Floral, Poultry, Goats- Boer, Rabbits & Cavies, Goats- Dairy, Youth Rabbits, Goats- Pygmy, Sheep & Fiber.

Within each of those categories are hundreds of sub categories. We spent at least 30 minutes looking at the LEGO displays. There were hundreds of submissions, all different ages and different themes. It was really fun for the boys.

We wandered around and saw all the woodwork, carving, sewing, knitting, croqueting, ceramic, metal work, jewelry making, photography, painting, and drawing submissions. I also got a look at the quilting submissions and baking submissions. Those baking submissions crack me up because they are inside this glass case for people to look at and most of them don't look too appetizing anymore.

We wandered through the dairy cows and beef cows. They are so beautiful! The boys got to milk a fake cow:





This cow was chewing her cud. The boys got a kick out of it:







We got our annual picture of the boys next to this Lost Children sign:



We all rode on the carousel together:





The rides!!!









We walked around and saw quite a few of the different animals. Jasper really loved the poultry and birds. There were these huge turkeys that were gobble, gobble, gobbling and geese that were honking loudly. Very exciting!



After a very long and very fun day we headed home. We'll definitely be back next year :)