We've Got Tickets to Ride (and ride, and ride)

We continued our tradition of attending the Hebron Harvest Fair every year by heading over there today. Hard to pass up when it is only about 6 miles down the very road we live on! The boys were looking forward to the truck pull, but I realized last night that the schedule had changed and the tractor and truck pulls were both yesterday. Today they were having some motorcross stunt stuff, which is new.

We arrived around 10:30 which is later than usual, but I didn't want to wake Lexi up from her morning nap since I figured she wouldn't be getting an afternoon nap and the motorcross didn't start until noon. The kids had fun checking out the family area - Nicolas got to pet a baby chick and the boys tried milking a pretend cow (they had water or something in it, so they actually could squirt something out of the udders). After a quick bite to eat, Luis took the boys over to the Motorcross event and Lexi and I stood in a VERY LONG line to buy tickets for the kiddie rides. Each ride was 3 tickets and so we needed 6 tickets (3 for each of the boys) for each of the rides. I counted close to 10 rides, so decided to buy 60 tickets. Holy crap - 60 tickets were $51. Or, I could get all day ride bracelets for $25 each. So, I went that route, but still, $50 seems like an insane price for a bunch of kiddie rides. I though Luis was going to fall over when I told him the cost. Luckily, the boys got into the actual fairgrounds for free and then spent most of the day on the rides, but good god that is a lot of money. Or maybe I'm just cheap or nuts or not centered in reality.

At any rate, the boys had a blast on the rides, Lexi was FABULOUS and stayed in her stroller without any significant fussing for most of the 5 hours we were there. She even caught a small catnap while the boys were busy on the rides. The boys were so busy on the rides that they never made it down to the animal barns. I took Lexi down there and she was fascinated by the pigs, cows and sheep. Or maybe she was just embarrassed by her mom making all the animal noises.

In our rush to leave the house this morning, we only grabbed the 'big" stroller for Lexi and didn't think to bring one of the umbrella strollers for Jackson. Luis got quite the workout holding/carrying Jackson for a good portion of the day, especially later on in the afternoon. Live and learn I suppose.