The Fair

So last weekend we went to the SC State fair.  We were pretty excited about letting Avery see some animals, eat some junk food, and ride some dangerous rides.  She had a pretty good time, but it is certainly not anywhere near as good as the NC State fair.

She enjoyed looking at the goats and making goat sounds.

Pointing out different animals for daddy.

 We could only keep her in the stroller for so long before she needed to get out and strut her stuff.

 So the rides...  It was tough to find rides where both a parent and a small child could ride.  It was either the kid only could ride (we were afraid of this mostly for the chance of Avery freaking out that we are strapping her to something and walking away) or that only adults could ride.  So we went through the tortuous process of asking her if she wanted to go on a particular ride, getting a reply of "yeah", and walking up to it only to be  told no by the operator despite the signage.  This of course was followed by Avery getting upset.  Rinse, repeat.  

This is what a disappointed toddler looks like when she is told she can't ride something.  She refused to get in the stroller to go find another ride until she watched the other kids go around a few times.

Riding on the train with mommy.

 She seemed pretty happy with the whole train experience.

 Big smiles while riding.  Of course the moment the train stopped, Avery said "more."  Then proceeded to get upset as we drug her kicking and screaming off the ride.  It didn't last long, but it was still pretty funny/sad.

 She was also pretty happy go on the bumblebee with mommy.  Afterwords...upset.

 On the merri-go-round with Daddy.