We had heard fun things about the Evergreen County Fair, which is only 15 minutes away from our house, so while Luke’s mom was here visiting we decided to try it out. It was a crazy adventure because we had to squish into Luke’s Jetta because my car was out of commission (that’s a whole other story in itself) AND it was raining so we weren’t even sure we wanted to go. But we attempted the drive and when we arrived it stopped raining so we decided to go inside and check it out.
They had a bunch of these painted head cut outs. Our goal was to get the kids to take a picture in each of them. This is the only one we got. lol We decided it was too much of a hassle to get the kids in and out of the stroller for these silly pictures. But these turned out pretty cute.
They had a TON of animals. There was an area full of chickens, cows, pigs, dogs, and more. They had this really cute saddle for the kids to sit on and take pictures in the cow buildings.
We also came home with a few things. Luke’s mom took Alyssa to browse the shops while Luke and I finished eating lunch and they came back with an animal balloon. I’ll never forget the look on Alyssa’s face when she came back to show us what she had. She was so excited about her balloon. We didn’t capture the look on camera, but one of these days I’ll get it. I don’t usually buy things at fairs, but I’ve seen this hair comb thing before and so I had the lady “do” my hair and we collectively liked it and decided to get it. :) It’s been a couple weeks now and I still like it! We didn’t get a good picture of it either, but it looks really neat.
I would have LOVED to come home with this bear in a tree thing, but maybe we can make our own when we cut down a couple of trees in our yard this winter! :)
This was the very first time Alyssa has ever WANTED to pet animals. We’ve gone to several different petting-zoo type places before and she has always been very afraid. But not this time, she went right up to pet the baby cows, goats & sheep. The baby cows were sooo cute! We even had a hard time getting her to want to leave. Poor Evan was so tired that he wasn’t able to stay awake long enough to go to the petting-zoo. Grandma stayed behind to watch him in the stroller, but she was still able to peek through the fence to watch Alyssa. :)
The entrance to the petting-zoo part was actually really cool. They had a maze/scavenger hunt set up for the kids. They were given a basket and then had to collect certain things like eggs from underneath the chickens, potatoes half buried in the dirt, apples from a wooden apple tree and they even got to milk a fake cow!
On our way out we decided that we couldn't leave without kettle corn and blackberry frozen lemonade. As soon as we got our yummy treats it began to POUR rain. We huddled under a booth for a little while and then decided to make a mad dash for the car. It was an exciting ending to our day at the fair.