Fall fair fun

Anyone who has read this blog for a certain period of time knows about my adoration of the fall fair.  The 180th edition of our local fair is on this weekend and you had better believe we hit that hard today.  Our gang was 15+ people with an almost 1:1 child/adult ratio, so we were set for good times.  We put in 6 hours with most children under 6 and survived.  Fair medal maybe?

Here are some of my favourite shots of the day.  (I had over 500 to choose from).

A rare author shot!  Yes I did, in fact, purposefully dress my family all in stripes today.  Do you know my son Charley and his wandering ways?  I've learned stripes = friends, camo = enemy.  To clarify, (and justify) no one got lost today.

So many photos today; I've sized them a bit smaller.  Click on any shot for a much closer look at the action.

Fairs rule!  Lots of them still left this year.  May I suggest you get on out to one?:  eat some grease, pay too much for rides,  feed some goats, smell some cows and have a great time.

Millbrook Fair!

You know I love a fair!  Remember the Montana Fair?  And our first PoHo fair last fall?  Fun!

Well, Millbrook Fair might beat them all!  It's tiny and manageable and they had a $10 all you can ride bracelet for the kids!  Woohoo!  (There was a climber/fun house ride that Charley went on 15 times.  Normally 3 tickets (or $4.50) per time.  I think we got our money's worth!)

It was one of those perfect days of great weather, great friends and kids in happy moods. (And I think we were 9 kids all together!)  No one pee'd their pants!   No one threw up on the rides!  No one was whisked away by carnies!  Hooray!

I took 402 photos.  I'm not joking.  Hauling that camera around is a bit of a pain, but then you get shots like these.  Here are approximately 2% of the pictures.

 One of Charley's 15 ventures up into the fun house.

 I'd say they're having fun!

 Charley waves while Evy supervises her hat that blew off.

 My sweet boys

 Christine, hero of the day, was the only adult to buy a bracelet.  Tilt-a-whirl away!

 Truckers

And, I'll throw this shot in just because it amuses me.  You see, this was the last ride before the 'magic on the bracelets wore off'.  All-you-can-ride was until 3, and this was 2:58.  Bummer.

Great times!  And it's only June!  So many more fair opportunities this season!  

I'm exhausted already.