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Marshfield Fair 2013

8/25/13 - Today Shara helped me make the jarred peaches by peeling all of them! Couldn't have done it without her.

8/24/13 - Marshfield Fair!

Wonderful time - we actually closed the place. We got to the fair at around 2 PM and looked around to get a lay of the land. Not much different from when we were last here three years ago, but the biggest change was Shara. She's so much bigger now we were able to do so much more and she enjoyed more of the activities we liked too. We first went to the food area for Alan to get a chili dog. Then we checked out the midway. We went on the bumper cars and they were pretty tough to control. If the wheel was turned around enough you went backwards and that was the way we started out. Shara took the wheel and accelerator but we switched back and forth. Then when we got the hang of it, we were done. Then she went in a kiddy fun house with Alan and thought it was so-so. The last ride we went on were the spinning dragons. She loved that I was going on with her and she could show me how we could control the speed by turning the wheel inside. It was fun and we got it going pretty fast!

I thought it would be exciting to see the Clydesdale horses in an exhibition. We got to the ring but wondered if it was still happening. A few people were milling around and it was on the schedule so we stayed. The people running it said it would start in 10 minutes so we hung out, chatted, laughed and teased each other about going in the huge, scary rides, and finished our Dell's frozen lemonade. The horses came out and they weren't as big as I thought they'd be. They were pulling a carriage and went around the ring while the announcer talked about something we could hardly understand over the loudspeaker. Then they went on to do figure 8's and that's when we said it was time to move on. We saw the magician for a quick show. It was pretty entertaining but I seem to remember last time it was better. 

At this point, if I remember correctly, it was dinner time. The choices were basically the same as usual. Alan got a steak, cheese, onions & peppers. The smell of the sausage was incredible and I almost had one in honor of dad (grandpa) but thought it would be just a little better to split the chicken teriyaki/steak kabob combo with Shara. It was a good amount for the two of us and didn't leave us stuffed. I think we wandered around more - checked out the craft hall and agricultural hall. Shara really didn't want to go in either hall but once we were in, she wanted to look at everything. She said, "I don't know why I want to look at all these vegetables, but I do." We got to the demolition derby bleachers early enough to get seats that would leave us with an easy escape if we wanted to leave early, which we did need to do if we wanted to get to the hypnotist at 8:30pm. We had a lot of fun at the derby - it was the figure 8 race finals. Lots of figure 8s today! Shara said she was treating it like a fashion show - she picked the cars she liked the look of best. Her favorite was the pink and green with the hobby horse on the top. We could have sold our seats when we left, the place was so packed (we didn't). 

We went back up to the entertainment area, stopping for dessert on the way. I knew I wanted the apple crisp w/ ice cream. Alan was still full and Shara thought she wanted to try a fried sweet (that was actually the name of a vendor). She was going to get the deep fried snickers bar, but the oreos sounded good too. I suggested the oreos because I had one once and it was good, but the Snickers would be too sweet for me. Then it was a choice between the Oreos and a Milky Way. She couldn't decide so I suggested quietly to Alan to get both. I went the other way to get my apple crisp and we were going to meet up at the magician's stage. They came over with both the Oreos and Milky Way. Alan decided he wasn't too full to have dessert so would make the sacrifice and eat what she didn't want. The hypnotist show was pretty good - Shara really liked it. She thought it the lady who thought she was in love with the hypnotist was funny, especially when she thought the temperature was really high and she was fanning herself with her skirt! Shara wondered if she had underwear on - we assured her she did! She also thought it was pretty cool being up so late - and so did I. We were talking about how one year we carried her out asleep in my arms and now look at her - closing the place! Next thing you know, I told her she'd be having me drop her off to spend the night there with her friends! She didn't seem to like that idea much. No problem with me - I had fun all going together!

Playground Fun

Lay week one of the fun times Shara and I had were playing on the playground at her school. We ran and climbed and swung all over the place!

Harriet the whiner & More from ArtsFest 2013, Session 2

Shara made a fantastic narrator

View all the videos and artwork

Fulfilling the End of Summer Bucket List

Miniature Golf - we have a beautiful mini golf course so close to home, but this is the first time we've ever gone. Won't wait so long to make another visit. Alan went to a meeting and we had a girls night out. Shara and I were pretty closely matched. She was good about chasing the balls that got away - and we both overshot and had them taken away by water or fly down a hill!

Ended with a lot of mosquitoes so had to have our ice cream in the car. What suffering!















Shara's bucket list includes a lot of camping out. Since I wasn't wanting an overnight outside, she set up her own tent in the family room.