The County Fair

I really liked going to the county fair in the summer when I was a kid, so I wanted to go to the county fair here this summer.  As it turns out, the El Paso County, Colorado county fair is very small compared with the Orange County, California county fair.  I should have guessed at that.  :)  But we still had a lot of fun.  They did have a demolition derby, but we didn't stay for that.  And it took us a long time to explain to Matthew why people would crash their cars on purpose.
We had to drive a little ways out of town to get to the fairgrounds and it was such a pretty drive through the Colorado countryside.

There were a ton of animals at the fair!  We didn't even get to see them all.  Matthew loved them and wanted to pet ALL of them.  My favorite were these adorable little piglets (not in this picture).  :)

Matthew tries to feed the alpacas.  We got in trouble with the alpaca guy for feeding them too much even though they never actually ate anything we tried to give them.  

Why we thought it would be a good idea to go to the gun show, I don't know.  We left after about five minutes 'cause Anna and Matthew were scared of the loud gunshots.  Here is the stage set up for the show.  And, yes, Scott brought two tickets to the gun show.  ;)

We went to see a magic show after that.  I kept humming "Final Countdown" through a lot of it 'cause it reminded me of Gob's magic show from Arrested Development.  :)  Turns out the kids don't like magic that much.  Anna did this a lot of the time.

 So did Matthew.

Best Magic Show Ever

 Also did I mention it was really hot?

At least Grant wasn't covering his ears.  He probably would have if he knew how.

 One of the kid's favorite things was this corn sandbox.  They played in there for a while.

And probably the highlight of the fair was this show put on by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.  It was a pretty cute show and they had lots of exotic animals, including this baby Jaguar.  We had a good time, but we were hot and tired by the end.  I need to enjoy this warm weather before it starts getting cold again.