County Fair

We went to the Salt Lake County fair last weekend and let me tell you...one thing I learned is that the fair attracts ALL different kinds of people...like the lady who we sat down right next to us while eating, even though there were like 500 other spots to sit (okay, maybe not 500, but plenty other spots to sit)...Jaxon's foot touched her leg, she grumpily told him not to kick her, I proceeded to scoot Jaxon away from her and closer to me and she looked at me and very snottily said, "well he was kicking me!" Both Jason and I were very proud of ourselves for not causing a big scene because there were many not nice things that wanted to come out of my mouth that were directed at this lady...one of which was, "seriously, he's four and his foot BARELY touched you...surely you've got to be kidding me!" but I was good and didn't say one word!

We were walking around inside looking at all the booths they had set up trying to sell you stuff...I don't know why we feel it necessary to walk through them, there usually isn't anything there that we couldn't live without! We happened upon this lady painting faces though and there was no line...we though it was too good to be true, but it was real! So we asked Jaxon if he wanted to do it and of course he said yes. I was a little worried if he would actually sit still and let her work her magic, but he did awesome! He chose to have a Spider Man face and it turned out really cute!


Then we asked Brynn if she wanted to have her face painted too and she said she did, but I was even more nervous about her letting the lady paint it, so I had her sit on my lap and the lady did her magic pretty quickly and the finished product was...well I'm not sure what it was, it just looked like crazy paint on her face, but the lady called it a princess face and Brynn loved it, and I thought it was cute!


They have like a little petting zoo area that has goats, llamas, tortoises, and some other kinds of animals in there that you can pet and feed and roam with. The year before last this was a lot of fun...this year not so much! It was crazy busy inside that I was worried someone was going to swoop up my kids and take them away without my knowing, even though I was constantly watching them (just a little nightmare I have). Jaxon had a great time feeding and petting the animals. Check out this turtle...he was huge!


This is the expression Brynn had on her face the whole time we were in the petting zoo...she really didn't want much of anything to do with the animals...she would look at them, but if one came close to her, she was not happy at all!
You know...last year we went to the state fair...told myself it was fun, but I wasn't sure if I would do it again...this year we went to the county fair and I am telling myself I'm not sure if I will do it again! It was fun, but I'm not sure it was fun enough to go back. Really all we did was look at the stupid booths, looked at some animals they had caged up, ate some nasty food, looked at the rides that they charge and arm and a leg for...decided they could in fact cut off our arms and legs while riding them and chose not to ride any of them, went to the crazy petting zoo thing and left. The bright side of the fair was that the kids had fun getting their faces painted and as we were leaving, Jason got some delicious roasted corn on the cob that ALMOST made going to the fair worth it!