Polk County Fair

This weekend Matt was lucky enough to be home with the kids. There has not been too many of those this summer.

We decided to take the kids to the Polk County Fair in St. Croix Falls. I was lucky that I had a free pass to get in and the kids were free too so it was actually a good thing we didn't have to fork out a ton of money just to get in, let alone the enormous charge for tickets to ride the rides.

This year was the first year Landyn was able to ride the midway rides. He was so excited when we got there, he wanted to go on the roller coaster just like on T.V.

He was floored when he saw the giant wheel way up in the sky.

We told him that we could go for a ride on it and he wasn't so sure about that when we walked all the way up to the fairest wheel. He wanted to see it but he didn't want to ride on it.

After that Matt and I took him right to the roller coaster. He wasn't quite tall enough so mom volunteered to ride on it too.

Once we started going he was excited and I could hear him squealing with joy until it started going faster and harder. Every turn we took he would slam into me, and I could feel his tiny little body flopping all over. I kept trying to look at his face to see if he was alright but there was absolutely no expression.

Then I kept hearing him howl but he wasn't crying. He just kept saying "woo, wow this is fun" but with no smile, tears, or fear, just a blank face until we got off.

I asked him if he had fun and then he said "yeah mom that was great, lets go!".

Next we went to the little airplane rides, these rides Landyn was able to ride all by himself, and I think he enjoyed that the most.

Then we went to the carousel, Dad voted to go with Landyn on that one. Then it was to the BIG slide. Landyn was excited about that, him and dad climbed all the way to the top and when Landyn looked down at all the people he said "crap this is high dad".

So Landyn and daddy went down the big slide. Landyn was too little to go down by himself so he had to sit on dad's lap.

When they got down to the bottom Landyn didn't realize that this slide was a one time deal. He was raring to go down again, but when we told him we had to leave and let the next people go down... there was the meltdown of the day.

We told him he could pick any ride he wanted to go on again instead of the slide so he quickly recovered.

(By the way Logyn was with us too, he spent most of the day in mom or dads arms being that...well... he was too little to go on all the rides. I don't think that he minded though, he was in the stroller, and outside watching all the people and the animals so most of the time he didn't make a peep.)

So it was back and forth to all the little kids rides. I think Landyn went on the air plane ride three times, the giant jumping castle 2 times, the slide once, the roller coaster once, the carousel 2 times and a turtle ride 2 times. So you would think the kid would get dizzy or something but no. I think he could have gone all night long if we let him.

When we told Landyn we were out of tickets he was ready to go home. We walked FOREVER to our car, strapped the kids in, and before we got out of the parking lot they were asleep.

Matt and I smiled at the thought of them having so much fun...they were too tired to talk about it.