The BIGGEST Fair In The World

Last night we went to the L.A. County Fair.  The incredible firefighters put out the fires, the smoke was gone, so we waited for the heat of the day to die down and off we went.  All 9 of us.

We've all been to many different County Fairs before, BUT...  this has to be the Largest County Fair In The World.  We were so exhausted and overwhelmed that we didn't even do that much, except walk, of course.  Ok, so we did eat crap and fell prey to one of those "I'll give you a practice shot" games for $5/a piece.  We played enough so all 3 little ones (Clara had a friend) could get a toy each and I must say that the puppies they got are very cute.  The kids also went on some of the rides and the dads ran off to the freestyle motorcross thing, so everyone did their own thing and had fun. 

Getting to the Biggest Fair In The World took us about an hour.  Getting back from the Biggest Fair In The World took another hour.  Getting from the entrance of the Biggest Fair In The World to anywhere else in the the Biggest Fair In The World took about an hour, too.  And since our big thing (or at least mine) was to go pet the farm animals first, it was an easy two hours before we started playing games, going on rides, etc.  Which, given that each ride is anywhere from $3 to $6 and they last all of a minute, the walking made the time = money spent ratio seem much better than if we had been able to really spend our time enjoying ourselves instead of walking so much.  Make sense?  It did to me.

Oh, and another cool thing.  As we pulled up to the Biggest Fair In The World there was a choice of parking:  General, Better-than-General, Preferred and VIP, each being $8, $10, $12 and $15 respectively.  Or something like that.  Anyway, this being the place that it is, VIP was sold out, of course, so we parked in Preferred.

I won't even go into how crazy the food prices are.  But they did have turkey leg stands so we were all happy.  It was great seeing the happy faces of the kids when they heard the term "turkey leg" I even think Clara did some kind of a "happy dance"...  frightening but true.

Anyway, that's all I remember for now...  and I have to get back to the family.