Hendricks County Fair

For those of you who don't know, the Hendricks County Fairgrounds are right behind my house. I can see the lights of one of the parking fields through the trees around the pond. The Fair was just last week. The second night of the fair they always do fireworks. We were able to sit our back patio and watch them. They were pretty good. The finale was awesome! And we didn't even have to fight the traffic!Last Thursday we actually went to the fair. This year we decided to walk (saved the $5 parking fee). I had clocked it once; it was only about 2 miles. K girl got to ride in the stroller and C walked with me. He actually did pretty good about not complaining. Since we (me) are still on a penny-pinching kick, we decided to just get desserts instead of dinner and dessert like we usually do. The same with the rides. We'll wait and do that at the state fair. There's more choices there anyways. The kids got milkshakes and Daddy got a funnel cake. I ended up eating a little of all three.

We walked around and saw all kinds of animals and 4H projects. It was fun!We also watched a "logging demonstration" Oh dear! Those guys humor was horrible! Not off color per se, but lame! It was hot walking around but not unbearable. I can't wait for the state fair though. That ends up being almost an entire day, with lots of good food and much more to see. I'm going to count that day as a field trip for C since we will have already started school. Why not? Crazier things get counted as a school day for the public schools. That fair comes up in about a month. Stay tuned for that post.

I read in the paper later that this cow sold for over $5000 at the auction. Nice artwork, don't ya think?