State Fair!!!

As many of you know, I look forward to the State Fair well...pretty much as soon as I get home from going. So needless to say, I was quite excited to make the annual trip up there. Meredith was excited too. As always, we wake up at the crack of dawn and head to the free park and ride.

Riding the bus

The first thing I did was head to the food building and get 81 fat grams of delicious cheese curds. Meredith wouldn't eat them so Greg headed over to the mini donut stand across the street to bring back 19 fat grams of delicious donuts. Meredith loved them.

While waiting for Daddy to get back with the mini donuts, I asked her to pose for a cute picture. This is what I get.

A few minutes later we were able to meet up with Juana (Grandma Schwake), my brother Chris and my sister Jennifer. Juana was greeted with a huge hug!

After eating our breakfast, we headed to the Miracle of Birth barn and checked out some baby animals with Chris.

The ducklings were oh-so-cute splashing around in their little pond. They looked like little wind-up toys.

After we saw the baby animals, we went to the DNR fish pond. Again, I asked her to pose for a cute photo and this is what I got. **sigh** I give up trying to get nice photos.
We made our way down to the giant slide. This year Greg rode down with Meredith.

I'm going to have to invest in a coupon book next year. Rides are expensive. A sheet of 30 tickets is $20 and each ride costs 4 tickets. I was lucky enough to have a kind stranger offer me their coupon for $6 off a sheet of 30 tickets because they were not going to use it.

Jennifer took in a ride with Meredith.

I love this picture. She went on the train all by herself and was SO excited! Look at her face :-)

I took her through the funhouse of mirrors. Since I have very few pictures of us, I thought I'd share.

She went on the swings all by herself too. She really like this ride a lot. A lot!

Grandma went on the roller coaster with her.

And my favorite picture from the day!

All in all, we had a great time. I don't have any pictures, but we got to meet up with my uncle Robin and my aunt Janis.

I didn't get to do a lot of stuff that I wanted to do though like go through the grandstand and some of the other buildings with vendors and displays. We didn't make it up to the bazaar. Bringing a kid to the fair is slow going. I want to go again without the child but I don't know if it's in the cards this year. We have a really busy Labor Day weekend planned. I guess I'm just going to have to eagerly anticipate the fair for 2011. And remind me that I have to block out two days to go to the fair. One with the child, and one without the child.