The County Fair

Yes, fair season - we hit our local one and Mateo rode on rides ALL BY HIMSELF this year! There was this great airplane one (does he look worried?) and then a similar ride with a band of turtles circling a psychedelic mushroom that he did solo. Mommy joined him for the merry-go-round, the ferris wheel, and a toddler version of the tilt-a-whirl - that one nearly did Mommy in.

We sampled some of the fair food - pizza, ice cream and pie - and checked out the animals. A very helpful 4-Her let us pet some juvenile cows, and a very noisy horse whinnied at us and scared "us" to tears sending us toward the very quiet llamas. Maybe next year we'll get to the chickens and rabbits? Oh, and we paid a special visit to the Recycling Center tent - for anyone not in the know, Mateo plays recycling at home a whole awful lot.