State Fair of Texas

Today was "Fair Day" for Rockwall ISD. They close school and give every student a fair ticket to go to the fair with their family if they chose. This is awesome for us since James works weekends and we are not able to do much as a family during the school year.

So, we all went as a family and invited our nephew, Dean to come along. As soon as we got to the fair grounds traffic was backed up and so we had to squeeze our way into the correct lane. Another car needed over as well and we let them in front of us (I always let people in because it frustrates me when others do not do it for me). So, we get up to pay our $15.00 for parking and the car that we had let in had paid it for us and told the guy to thank us for letting them in. Wow! We've done this before for others because our home church was big into doing things for others but to have someone think of us and do it for us really just changed our attitude for the day. Kindness is such a powerful thing!

The weather was just perfect for a fair day.

My nephew LOVES trains so I just had to get their picture by the train. They charged money to actually go on board and look around so we chose to skip it. ;(

James wanted to go see all the cars. The rest of us were not interested but the boys were entertained by sitting in the cars and getting their pictures made.
They have this fun pretend farm for the kids to participate in. They put on aprons, water trees, collect fruit. Feed chickens and collect eggs. Milk cows. Drive tractors to feed the cows. Plant seeds to grow veggies. At the end of collecting everything they put it in the store and then earn a dollar to buy a real snack. Very cute.

My favorite part of ANY fair is the petting zoo. I'm an animal lover so I could spend the entire day with the animals but no one else wants to stay with me that long. ;) I'd rather be IN the pens with the animals but this fair only allows you to pet through fences. :( They have lots of interesting animals you do not see everyday to look at as well as the regular everyday farm animals. I posted all the animal pictures on facebook but did not want to bore my blog friends with pictures of animals. This was the only pet Autumn actually touched...she loved feeling his horns. The rest of the time she was more interested in her sister or my camera.

We lasted almost 5 hours at the fair and then Autumn's pulse ox machine died and it started getting a little too warm out for her so we figured it was time to leave. We had seen the animals, eaten lunch, watched a couple of shows, rode a ride, saw the cars, ate some cotton candy, did some window shopping, got everyone a little something, and had spent enough money so we pretty much got the entire fair experience during our short time there (except for eating something fried). There was SO much more we could of done but it was enough after walking for 5 hours with 4 kids. ;)