Saturday, Oct. 11, we headed down to Columbia for the SC State Fair. I have always loved fairs, but had only heard stories of how great the State Fair was from Matthew's cousins. We decided to go this year knowing Philip would love the rides and plus we'd get to see Matthew's cousin Paul and his wife Kellie who live out of town from us. We caravaned down following Matthew's Aunt Elise, cousin Mollie and her husband Michael. We met Paul and Kellie just before getting to the fairgrounds. Matthew's Uncle Arden actually works at the fair every year (takes his two week vacation from his "day" job to work his "dream" job) and we met his as he showed us to our parking spot in the workers' lot (i.e. free parking and free admission!!). He's been working the fair for 50 years and is good friends with the man in charge of all food vendors for the fair (i.e. free food for us!!).
It was really a wonderful day and the kids held up really well for being there from 10:30am until 5:30pm. We rode at least a dozen things (some might think rides are expensive but since everything else was free, we splurged!!), ate yummy food to our heart's content, enjoyed the exhibit hall, and spent really good quality time with our loving family. We might just have to think about doing this every year. And I also believe I might just have broken my addiction to tacky fair games and prizes. With the kids, there is already WAY too much just in this house as it is!!
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