As promised, I am writing about our second trip to the LA Fair. We went back on Friday the 9th. I cannot tell you what a huge difference it was. No traffic, no lines to park, hardly any people. It was awesome! This time we spent our time in the kids' areas so Jack could enjoy the fair as much as we do.
We watched a few horse races. Jack liked to see the horses "run, run, run", as he would say.
We had to check out the table setting entries. These judges are brutal and if you place your dessert spoon 1/10th of a cm off they dock points, so it's always fun to read their judging cards and see what tables they liked the best.
We went back to the Princess/Knight area where he proceeded to both vacuum and sweep.
There was one area where the kids could plant three seeds, then harvest three foods and exchange them for money, and then go shopping with the money to buy 3 items (not for keeps). Jack LOVED the shopping. The cart was just the right size and he seriously was running from one area to the next dumping stuff in his cart. We were hot on his heels taking the stuff out of his cart so we wouldn't have armloads of fake food to put back when he was done. I think he "shopped" for 30 minutes and probably would've gone longer.
We saw the farm animals. We were going to go in the petting zoo area, but it was crowded and hot and Jack didn't seem to mind that we skipped it.
We wanted to stay for the Wild West show, but Jack didn't take a nap and it was getting late and we were hungry. So instead of buying expensive fair food, we stopped at Burger King on the way home (I know, healthy right?). Jack was totally falling asleep on our 5 min drive to Burger King and I kept trying to keep him awake. He then was super crazy hyper while we were eating inside and it took him 30 min to fall asleep once we were back in the car. Lesson I learned? If the kid wants to sleep, let him sleep. I can always feed him later when he wakes up at 10pm instead of wrestling him and forcing food down him before we get in the car. Ah, LA Fair, until next year...
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