Fair Play

The Beanie Family went to the State Fair over the weekend. It was fabulous! Beanie Mom loves fairs and this one had it all - rides, animals, fair food, and well, strange-looking people. The fair tends to attract a nice cross-section of society....

JillyBean didn't know what to do with herself. She was full of excitement and wonder the whole five hours we were there. One of the highlights was the opportunity for Bean to play in corn. Yep, corn.

One of the exhibition buildings had taken a traditional sand box and filled it with corn feed. Kids had a blast scooping it up and dumping it into buckets or burying themselves in it. To be honest, we could have left Bean right there for hours and she would have been perfectly happy. It's amazing how simple things like scooping corn can satisfy a child.
Next up was the animal barn where JB was thrilled to finally see a cow up close and personal. Beanie Mom thought that she would be a bit scared of such a large animal but she stuck her arm in the pens to pet them while mooing. It was so cute. And although Beanie Mom doesn't like them on the football field, it was nice to see a piece of Texas in Virginia.

As far as rides went, Beanie rode the carousel and a flying elephant ride. She had ridden the carousel at the little county fair over the summer and loved it but was a bit apprehensive about this one for some reason. Still it was a fun experience and all of her fears were gone once she took her first bite into the smoked turkey leg. Ahhh...Nothing says fair or festival quite like a massive turkey leg.

The adventure was wrapped up with another trip to an animal barn. This one, though, was loaded with goats, which may now be Bean's favorite animals. She was so excited to see them and ran from pen to pen touching them. She even hugged the goats who stuck their heads out of their pen which was very cute. I'm pretty sure they thought her blond hair was hay because she walked out of there with a bit of goat slobber. Needless to say she got a good scrub down once she got home.