FAIR-y tales

I am exhausted from our second county fair outing in as many weeks. This fair was a little further away, more of a drive, but the weather was better and the fair had much more to entertain the troops. A picture being worth a thousand words, I'll let them do most of the tale-telling today:

Mock Election Booth -
gave the kids a chance to be voters

Harrison took the longest to vote - not because he was using the electronic voting booth, but because he read through and carefully considered each referendum on the ballot. I learned he is quite the feminist. He voted for females whenever possible.

The other kids used paper ballots, filling in the dots, then feeding them into the voting machine. At the time we were there, the results board indicated Obama leading with 288 votes out of 456 for the day, with McCain running a distant second.

While waiting for fellow voters, the kids tried out the sensory boxes at the DNR table, and then the girls moved to a beauty consultant who had a special exfoliating hand wash.

Meanwhile, the boys played
war games on the Army's X-Box

This fair actually had a lot of different animals and shows going on when we were there, so we saw a lot of critters.

Luckily it wasn't too hot - so the odors were bearable, even for the city boys. (Not that it kept Harrison from complaining about the smell!)

Fun with the fans in the pig barn
blew away all worries about odors.

The younger girls enjoyed a swing while the older kids had a pow-wow in the playground area just before it was time to head home to swim. Harrison was more than ready to go - can you tell?