Iowa State Fair, Raven, Middle Earth, and more!
The Iowa State Fair. It’s gone now, except for the droves of food and debris left behind the 906,000 visitors of this annual ten-day event.
We somehow end up entertaing the Kids with thousands of people drinking, swearing, and eating every sort of food imaginable. During the fair, I would say that I am guilty of a couple of those things.
Madison loves the food, the rides, and of course Middle Earth. This is a little ‘playhouse’ area where the kids get to dress up and enact a ‘knights and monsters’ sort of play. I will post more pics on that later.
Kaitlynn wanted to see Raven, star of Disney Channel’s ‘That’s So Raven!’. WOW… We showed up at about 1:30 PM, and there had to have been about 3000 people there already for this free concert! We had to wait until 4:00 PM for the show, as more and more and more and more people poured in. There were Parents fighting, arguing, threatening, etc. It looked as though Paul McCartney was going to take the stage for a kids show. There had to be about 6000 people when it was all filled up, and it was crazy. Jenn and Kaitlynn took to the front of the stage as soon as we arrived.
I stayed back with the 3 year old that didn’t understand why she had to endure being surrounded by angry adults, screaming girls, and the smell of those fresh-baked cookies (ok the cookies was what I could smell). She wanted, and asked for Ice-cream for about an hour and a half. A LONG time for a 3 year old. Finally, she couldn’t take much more. After about three songs from Raven, she was ready to go. Her face was red from being stuck in the middle of all these people without a breeze, so we made our way to the Dippin Dots and ate some Banana Split frozen decadence.
The Fair was great fun. We danced, rode rides, ate tons of food, and Jenn got that Kitchen appliance that she wanted, so she could make her famous? salsa and guacamole dip. But alas, I picked up some very unique instruments myself. Hand-carved instruments!
More on that later…
