Tuesday, August 9, 2011

California State Fair

A couple weeks ago, Ivan got off work an hour early so we could head out to the State Fair! Ivan has fun memories from going when he was younger and Tyson and I have never been so we thought it would be fun to go. Well we were right! It was still pretty warm when we first got there so we went around to the vendors (that is one of Ivan's favorite parts, although I don't get why because he hates shopping. He must like window shopping:)) and then we went around to see the animals.

We saw cows, sheep, pigs, which had just had baby piglets and they were cute:), chickens, goats, horses, bunnies, roosters, ponies, and some other animals I can't remember. Tyson loved looking at all the animals. He got to pet a few of them and feed the cows. He thought that was "so cool!" It was really hard to get pictures though because of the gates and stuff so that is why they are really far away.
There was a corn box in the kids area and Tyson loved playing in it. He was pretty mad when that girl stole the bucket from him, but otherwise it was a great time!
For some reason, Tyson thought it was hilarious to stick our heads through the hole. So cute!
Making music with Daddy on the farm instruments.
Tyson and a really weird-looking chicken.
They had an area with a bunch of fish tanks and all sorts of fish, turtles, and crawdads. Tyson was a little scared to touch the fish, but he held a turtle. It was the highlight of the fair for him. He told grandma all about it.
Tyson loved the golden bears at the entrance of the fair grounds. Don't ask me why, but we had to get a picture with the bear.

We got a ticket for buy one get one free admission into the fair and then we found free parking so overall it was $12 to get in instead of $34. We were pretty excited. We had some good food, one amazing cinnamon roll and 6 fun filled hours together as a family. We were all exhausted by the end. While walking back to the car, we saw fireworks as well and Tyson absolutely loved them!

4 comments:

  1. Glad your experience was better than ours :) It sounded like they had more animals there than when we went.

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  2. That little guy of yours is so cute. Love the one of you guys laughing in the cut out. I'm glad you all had so much fun! Miss you!

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  3. Gotta love the state fair! That little guy of yours is getting cuter by the minute!

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  4. Hey Tidwells! Where exactly are you guys living these days? We just moved to San Jose for a new job. It'd be fun to get together!

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