On a beautiful sunny and warm day, we loaded up the minivan and headed down the street to the Minnesota State Fair. Actually, we went to a park and ride where we got on a bus that drove us to the fair. Now that we don't have the double stroller, it's a lot easier to get everyone into the bus, which saves a lot of time, headaches and $$$. The park and ride bus brought us right to the front door of the fair. We were a little sad to find out that next year Nick will become a paying fair-goer. Not because it will cost us more money; it seems like yesterday that we brought our kids to the fair when they were little babies.
The State Fair is right up Cara's alley. Not long after we arrived, she noticed that they had bushes shaped like animals! Here Cara found one of her favorite animals - an elephant!!
And Nick found one of his favorites -- a dragon!
We went early in the day - mid morning - so the crowds weren't too bad yet. First we went to the Kidway to go on some kiddy rides. Nick is more excited about this than Cara so far, but she enjoyed them too.
We also went down the Giant Slide, which is a big yellow metal slide on which you go down on burlap sacks. Nick and Daddy went on a burlap sack and Mommy and Cara went on one too. We could have done this all day long it was so fun.
We also climbed on some machinery on Machinery Hill. Then we decided to get a bird's eye view of the fair in the Skyglider, which was really fun for the kids. Of course, hanging out with the kids and showing them all the new things is fun for the parents!
Then we went to a relatively new exhibit called the Miracle of Birth Exhibit. This Exhibit has all different types of animals that are delivering babies or have just delivered babies or where babies are being born. We saw a whole bunch of eggs that were hatching, we saw a lamb have a baby lamb, and we got to pet the animals too. Here is Cara petting a minature horse.
A fun time was had by all but everyone got tired so we went home. Rest assured we will be back next year (even if Nick has to pay to get in!)
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