The last time our family visited a fair was back when we were just two Klises, celebrating Jeff's 24th birthday at the Minnesota State Fair. Back then, Jeff had a lot more hair, I had a lot less hair, and we ate our way through the whole fairground.
But the last time I was at the Great Geauga County Fair, I had A TON of hair, absolutely no Jeff, I hated babysitting children, and I only walked in to get a corn dog and french fries with vinegar and walked out. And that was a sad 12 years ago.
This time was certainly different. We did it all! And all was way more fun with kids-my kids-that I absolutely love to babysit every day. Early Thursday morning the fair had free admission and we took advantage of that to explore the unknown "Greatness" of my home town county fair. Small crowds meant we go to do and see everything we wanted, without waiting in lines-except for the carousel ride, that is. To get the dragon, we had to practice patience, and then cutthroat, unapologetic, fast-paced seizing of the lone dragon. They should really put more than one of those on a carousel.
We watched a hilarious rubber chicken launch (normally done with live poultry, but the bird flu had all the birds banned from the fair this year), greeted all the animals in their respective barns, checked out the homemade jams and jellies and other "domestic" items, rode a ride and then got hungry. Then it was lemonade, corn dogs and fries with tons of vinegar and salt, and 4-H milkshakes for dessert.
Sweaty, full to bursting, and immensely pleased with ourselves, we headed home to gush to Jeff about how we can't wait to do it again, next year.
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