Every year, my family tries to go to the Kansas State Fair. I remember as a child only missing a couple of years of going. It was a tradition. When I was young, we would meet my grandma, and my uncle, aunt and cousins and we spent the day together. We always would go through the 4-H buildings first to see my cousins' projects and then we would go through all the other buildings to get FREE stuff!
We always went back to the cars to eat lunch, that we brought, which always included my favorite, beef salad sandwiches! Yum, just writing that makes me crave it. After lunch there were more buildings and all the animals to see. We then ate supper in the fair grounds and then it was RIDES time!
Our tradition hasn't changed much. Although my grandma is no longer around (but I KNOW if she was she would be there!) and we don't meet my cousins anymore, my children's grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncle and cousin' are there. We skip the 4-H building because there are no projects to look at, but we start with the building, go to lunch, see more buildings and animals, enjoy some fair food, and then we have fun with rides!
Because we were going to be in Kansas a whole week and during fair week, we decided to go two different days. The first day, we were going to mainly focus on the buildings, and the animals, and enjoy a couple of rides. The second day, which was $1 day, we were going to revisit a couple of buildings and see some animals, but the main focus was rides, rides and more rides!
There are so many pictures that I would do a montage, but my sister doesn't like them as well and she's been waiting for these State Fair posts. So I'm going to have lots of pictures. You can click on the picture to enlarge it.
Starting Out
The "Scooter Brigade"
Checking out the "underground" shelter. They do live in Tornado Alley!
"Girl" Scouts with their leader Aunt Tammy.
2008 Presidential Candidate, Former KS Senator, and KS Governor Prospect
Sam Brownback
Fair Fun
The Sky Ride
Tanner & Jeff
Theresa & Matt
Kaylie & Aunt Tammy
She started out scared but by the end it was "no hands!"
Landon & Megan
Preston & Brooke
The Loot
Lunch Time
Afternoon break that we enjoyed some Cheese Curds & Funnel Cakes
The Giant Slide
Tanner, Landon, & Megan
Preston, Jeff, & Kaylie
Once Kaylie got to the top and looked down and she started screaming. The worker had to pry her off of the pole to hand her to Jeff. I missed my video chance.
Still traumatized by the slide.
Restin' & the Train
A Midway Ride
Each kid got a "free" ride. Brooke, Preston, and Landon did the 'Starship 3000' where you get into a spaceship like ride and it spins so fast that the force of gravity makes the "seats" slide up to the ceiling. So there are no pictures of the kids, but you can see the ride in the background. Megan and Tanner can't "do" spinning so they did 'Bumper Cars'.
Then Uncle Matt and Aunt Theresa took all the kids, minus Kaylie on the Ferris Wheel.
So where was Kaylie?
At supper she had a little fit and didn't treat her Aunt Tammy right. So Aunt Tammy said you are going to say sorry or you're going to sit in time out. The rest of us went on and went through our last building and then we were ready to let the kids ride their ride. I called Tammy so I could talk to Kaylie and tell her that if she didn't say "sorry" she was going to lose her ride. Tammy was already almost to us and this is how she came.
While the rest were on the Ferris Wheel, Jeff, Tammy and I were checking out the "Freak Show" that was set up right next to it. The guy below was sitting out there and they said that he was the youngest munchkin on Wizard of Oz and that he was also on Willy Wonka, but now he owns the show. I don't know if it was all lies but I saw an interview with the only living munchkins and he wasn't one of them.
