Fairs & Festivals
On Friday evening we went to the Arts & Air Festival at the Albany fairgrounds. Some hot air balloons were supposed to lift off after dark but they canceled that because it was too windy. Can’t say any of us were too disappointed though. On Saturday we went to the State Fair in Salem. We spent 5 or 6 hours there playing games, going on rides and seeing animals.
Payton tried to refuse to go on any scary rides, which included pretty much all of them. I told him he didn’t have a choice and we went on the Sea Dragon. After a few screams of terror on it, he decided that he loved it and wanted to go on it again. So we did before we left. Same thing with the ferris wheel, he was completely against that at first. So he conquered two unreasonable fears yesterday. Here’s a video of our 2nd ride.
Not much else going on here. I’m just organizing my office today. It’s been trashed along with the rest of the house for the past couple months.
Gotta love the fair! Our state fair isnt until September but we have a fair in the parking lot of our mall right now.My daughter went Friday night with friends and when I was dropping her off I seen a fair employee come in front of my car and do some coke with some paranoid looking chick.I hope he was not operating the rides!
Looks like phreaking phun
You should have tried the trick from the XKCD Comic, “Megacoaster 3000” THAT would have made a good video!
I remember when I went to Carowinds on a fieldtrip when I was fourteen, and the group I was originally with ditched me cause I was a nerd, so one of the chaperones decided to be my parter. I thought it would be really cool considering he was 17 or 18 and could pay for me to play games and stuff. Turns out it sucked because, much like Payton used to be, he was too scared to go on the “scary” rides. He would also make up lies like, “My cousin rode that ride and his seatbelt came undone so I don’t really want to ride that one…” and stuff like that.