Mike had never been to the state fair before. He told me he had gone to small local fairs when he was growing up, but when i described to him the wonder and amazement that is the Puyallup fair, he couldn't quite imagine it. He thought I must be remembering the grandness of it all through little kid eyes or something... so (to prove just how massive it really is), we went this afternoon...
Mike spent all day telling me things like "this place is huge! I can't believe how BIG it is!!!" ...we kicked off the day with corn on the cob & a trip through the cat barn. we tried to see some horses in action in the arena, but they had just finished a show as we started walking in. Instead we went wandering through the big state fairgrounds. Mike won me a stuffed hippo at one of the games (he is the first guy to ever bother attempting to win me something, and most certainly the first guy to ever succeed at it. i'm telling you, it was just meant to be. i mean he won me a stuffed hippo even. how killer cool is that?)
then, lets see... we stopped and made a doo dah bird together. he didn't even know what one was before today. he thought i was making it up when i told him about them... i had first mentioned it at Danielle's wedding when they did the unity sand thing. i saw it in the program and asked "what is it, like a doo dah bird?"... and he thought i was nuts. anyway our bird came out very colorful and fun. it's a new ornament for my computer desk!
we went on the ferris wheel, through a lame haunted house, through a fun house with a mirror & window maze & funny mirrors that made me look like a short, fat midget (that wasn't my favorite part of the day by any means)... Mike discovered the chairs with the vibrating foot rest thingy you can turn on by putting coins in the chair. he thought i was a big hero when i told him i had 50 cents... until he got it going and discovered it wasn't all it was cracked up to be...
we saw some livestock, watched a cow get milked in the cow barn... and at the end of the night i discovered he was too chicken to go on the swings ride with me. that one's not even one of the upside-down scary rides. it's just fun. Mike's funny.
but i will say this ~ it's totally fun to go to the fair with an easy-going adult who's never been before. It's like seeing everything through the eyes of an awe-struck kid, except you aren't at the mercy or your parents telling you it's time to go home now. we had a blast! i don't think i've had that much fun at the fair since I WAS a kid!
[originally published 9/8/2008]
Mike spent all day telling me things like "this place is huge! I can't believe how BIG it is!!!" ...we kicked off the day with corn on the cob & a trip through the cat barn. we tried to see some horses in action in the arena, but they had just finished a show as we started walking in. Instead we went wandering through the big state fairgrounds. Mike won me a stuffed hippo at one of the games (he is the first guy to ever bother attempting to win me something, and most certainly the first guy to ever succeed at it. i'm telling you, it was just meant to be. i mean he won me a stuffed hippo even. how killer cool is that?)
then, lets see... we stopped and made a doo dah bird together. he didn't even know what one was before today. he thought i was making it up when i told him about them... i had first mentioned it at Danielle's wedding when they did the unity sand thing. i saw it in the program and asked "what is it, like a doo dah bird?"... and he thought i was nuts. anyway our bird came out very colorful and fun. it's a new ornament for my computer desk!
we went on the ferris wheel, through a lame haunted house, through a fun house with a mirror & window maze & funny mirrors that made me look like a short, fat midget (that wasn't my favorite part of the day by any means)... Mike discovered the chairs with the vibrating foot rest thingy you can turn on by putting coins in the chair. he thought i was a big hero when i told him i had 50 cents... until he got it going and discovered it wasn't all it was cracked up to be...
we saw some livestock, watched a cow get milked in the cow barn... and at the end of the night i discovered he was too chicken to go on the swings ride with me. that one's not even one of the upside-down scary rides. it's just fun. Mike's funny.
but i will say this ~ it's totally fun to go to the fair with an easy-going adult who's never been before. It's like seeing everything through the eyes of an awe-struck kid, except you aren't at the mercy or your parents telling you it's time to go home now. we had a blast! i don't think i've had that much fun at the fair since I WAS a kid!
[originally published 9/8/2008]
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