VELDHUIZEN: State Fair 2008

We had a very good long weekend! We brought the kids to the State Fair on Friday with my parents! It was an extremely long day, but it was fun! We started off with bringing the kids into the Little Farm Hands! It was so cute and Kylie obviously understands it much more than Dawson did, but it was good! Everything is "play" and nothing is real, but the kids definitely get the idea. :) If you have a min. take a look at the photos from the Farm.

Then we ventured our way to the Kiddy Midway for Kylie and a few of the rides were a little young for her, but she is one dare devil and really likes the fast rides!

AND yes, I went on a ride with her as well...it was actually quite fun -- they were airplanes...

AND Dave too, got to go on a ride with Kylie...definitely one I could not do, I'm not one to go in circles, but Dave doesn't seem to mind, check out the video (you'll need sound) :)

AND this brings us to the Giant Green and Yellow slide -- Kylie and I went first and then Miss Kylie wanted to go AGAIN, so of course, we went AGAIN and I brought Dawson this time. He was a tad bit scared...he didn't really have a whole lot to cry, but started to get a little scared (as I could tell in his wimpers) and then before you knew it we were at the bottom and he turns around and looks at it...like what in the world was that:

The kids were starting to get tired by this point -- Kylie was ready to go home. We didn't bring the wagon, as I thought for sure she would have been able to make it through the entire day -- this girl usually has so much energy...so we brought the stroller for Dawson, but realized by this time, we should have brought the wagon for Kylie AND Dawson!

So while Dawson was taking a snoozer, my Mom wanted to go on the "sling shot" and I kept hinting at my Dad that she really wanted to go...well he finally said, if you BOTH go on this ride, I'll pay for it...well THIS ride, is called "2Xtreme". I was scared out of my pants...seriously! My Dad bought tickets and my Mom and I risked our lives...and I was literally questionning the guy who was putting us into this ride and asking him if he's ever rode it, etc. He said he has rode it one time when he bought it, but that it will be the best ride of our lives!! Well there was no turning back at this point -- it much reminded me of skydiving...check out the photos: