The Fair

We went to the Evergreen State Fair today. We'll be going again on Monday with Michael, but we usually enjoy going a couple of times while the Fair is going on. The girls had a great time and both fell asleep in the car on the way home. They both enjoyed seeing the animals. Hannah loved the petting farm...Naomi liked petting the rabbit, but didn't want to touch any of the more intimidating animals. There were chicks that hatched on Hannah's birthday and piglets that were 2 weeks old. There were cows that scared Naomi by mooing (very amusing to be walking through the cattle barn with a little girl pressing her hands hard on her ears) and horses competing in a log-dragging contest. There was fair food, of course. And there was a pony ride for one 5-year-old. I think that was the highlight for her. You would think that a kid who didn't want to jump into the pool by herself (in the shallow end, same thing she'd been doing the previous week) would have been nervous about the pony rides, but you'd be wrong. She had on a face-splitting grin the whole time (not captured by her mother, who forgot the camera today...). As we were on the way home, she declared her intention to take horse-back riding lessons. I don't know where she gets it! :)