Loudoun County Fair

A couple of years ago, while Jesse was in Las Vegas at some hacker conference, Darryl took the boys and I to the Loudoun County Fair. The boys had a fun time, and we don't make it to fairs very often, so when he asked if we wanted to go again this year, I said yes. Even though it was after dinner time when we got there, it was still very hot, and we went through all 37 bottles of water that we brought pretty quickly. We visited the livestock barns, and the boys liked looking at all of the different animals, but they were really excited to go to the carnival fairway. Grandad graciously bought them a bunch of tickets, and they went to town having a great time on all of the rides.
They loved this monkey house thing. I had to go through it with them since Graham was too short to do it on his own.

Good thing I was there too, since Graham got stuck on this spinner thing. It was funny at first, and then his leg went off in a funny direction, and then not so funny anymore.

They loved this dragon roller coaster. I'm hoping that if we make it back to Hershey Park next year that they will be more adventurous about trying the little roller coasters.

I just love Graham's face as he's riding the motorcycle.

These bugs were another favorite.We tried to get over to the rodeo. It was crowded, and the boys had a hard time seeing. In addition to that, it just took forever for them to get going. First there was the long opening remarks and introductions. Then the first 3 or 4 riders didn't make it much out of the gate. Plus there was this guy who wouldn't go back into the chute, so we all kind of sat around waiting for them to get him back in the pen.

And this guy got hurt, and that took some time too. I guess that after we left, things picked up a bit, but the kids were just bored, and it was getting to be bed time, so we moved on.

The first thing that the boys asked to do when we got there was to ride the "little horse." Finally, as we were getting ready to go, and Grandad was off picking up a treat for Grammy, we let them take a pony ride. This was Nate's first ever time to ride a pony, and Graham's second time. Previously, Nate has wanted nothing to do with pony rides.

We could have done a camel ride, but opted out of that.

So the boys had a blast again, and are already asking to go back. We'll have to see- this may be the year that we make it to the Great Frederick Fair. We've lived here for 8 years, and never made it there!