Cabarrus County Fair

We were cramped for time last week, but we decided to head out for the county fair on Wednesday night. Just our luck that it rained all afternoon and we watched the sky thinking that we may have to cancel. Around 6 pm it stopped raining and the clouds began to clear. We jumped in the car and met daddy at the fairgrounds. We didn't have much time because we were late getting there so we just bought 24 tickets to go along with the 6 that Doug gave us. Then a family leaving gave us 2 more that they hadn't used. So the girls were excited because we figured they each could ride 3-4 rides each before we had to go home and get ready for school the next day. Emily chose to ride the big swings while I took Abi over to the ballon ride. Then they rode the roller coaster together, then the haunted roller coaster ride, then another roller coaster and a safari jeep ride. We were walking around when we saw for $5 you could get strapped into a bungee thing and jump on a trampoline. Emily had seen the bigger version of this at the beach one time and wanted to ride it, but we wouldn't let her. The one at the fair wasn't as scary looking, so we said, what the heck, my as well let her ride. Then Abi was mad because we didn't tell her she could jump, but I hadn't really realized that she would have wanted to. So we gave them each a $5 bill that Maw Maw Kaye and Paw Paw Jerry had given them and they got strapped in. They asked me to stay with Abi, so I didn't get the full picture of her in her apparatus from far away, but hopefully you can get the jist of it. They thought someone as small as her would need help being pulled down to the trampoline to make contact with it to push off, but Abi caught on very fast and really didn't need any help. This thing pulls you up to where you feel almost weightless and then the bouncing keeps you in contact with the trampoline after you get started. They LOVED it and I was wishing we had one at home! After they got off we went and got some fair food. We ended up with a candied apple, a powder sugared funnel cake, a foot long hand dipped corndog, and an ear of corn. Wow! Then we watched the end of one of the kids' fireman's sh0ows. At the end of it they let the kids crawl through the "smoke" house and practice staying low to the ground to avoid smoke inhalation. Abi and Emily got in line and the next thing we know Abi was running back out and away from the side of the house they were supposed to be going in. She ran up to me and said "Is he going to try to suffocate me!?" I explained to her that no he wouldn't and the smoke wasn't real and wouldn't hurt her and she ran back to get in line and then ran back out of line. She wasn't stupid-if a house is smoking and on fire you are NOT SUPPOSED to run INTO it! Makes sense to me! Abi was tired after watching the fireman show and we went home and left daddy and Emily (along with Paw Paw John) there so they could go inside and look at the animals. I took Abi home and gave her a bath and she went to bed.

We had a really good night and I am really happy that we went because I know that fair memories are wonderful and they will always remember this night.