State Fair

Last week we took the girls to the State Fair. We ate dinner which included pizza, hot dogs (Ellie INHALED hers), fried okra, and Fiske fries (if you're unfamiliar with those they are a fair staple...thin french fries with vinegar on them). We also had some fresh squeezed lemonade. The girls loved their fair food! After we finished eating we hit up the rides. Let me tell you, the fair was a lot cheaper before the girls discovered rides! They got to pick a few rides to go on and they picked the carousel, the bumblebees (similar to the Dumbo ride at Disney), and the ferris wheel. Emmie spotted the ferris wheel on our way in and couldn't wait to ride it. Paul was not as pleased with that selection
as he is not a big fan of heights.

I love Emmie's facial expression!

After the rides we headed over to the flower building. The girls loved looking at all the plants and flowers and also the sand sculpture.

Not sure what she's plotting but definitely up to something!

I was trying to get a picture of them together in front of the flowers but they decided to make "angry" faces instead.

Sand sculpture...I thought it was a little odd this year.

Emmie LOVED all the flowers.

This was our favorite!

 As we were heading out of the fair we stopped and got a funnel cake to share. Ellie inhaled it (as she had been doing with all the fair food!) but Emmie was not so sure about it. Finally she tasted the powder sugar and got a really big grin on her face. I'm not sure what she thought the powdered sugar was but she definitely didn't expect it to taste good. After the taste of powdered sugar she decided funnel cakes were pretty good!

We had a great time at the fair! I think next year we'll try and go during the day so we can hit up all the animals and have a better shot at skipping the rides!