State Fair...WHAT An Adventure

All week, we've planned on going to the State Fair on today. We didn't get to go last year and we really wanted to make it this year. We realized yesterday that it was Texas/OU weekend at the fair, and it would be a madhouse there...lets just scratch the fair idea. Ummmm, no, not when you have a 2 year old that remembers everything and she is so excited about going she said she dreamed about going to the "carnival" last night! We heard that it wasn't that crowded during the game, so we figured we'd go around 11:30, after Alice Anne's nap. Parking would be a nightmare, so we decided to ride the Dart Train. The girls would love it and we wouldn't have to mess with finding a parking place. Sounded like a good idea...we'd just hop on the train with wagon in tote, and hop out right at the fair, right? SO Wrong! Everyone else in Dallas, Austin and Oklahoma had the same great idea that we had! Literally the train was so packed we could barely breathe...when we found a train that had room on it for us at all!! It literally took over an hour to get there because the train kept stopping for no apparent reason. The girls were squirming and ready to get off and I was so paranoid about the girls touching anything in that nasty train, I kept squirting hand sanitizer on them every 2 minutes. We finally made it and the part about it not being crowded during the game was such a myth, too. It was SO crowded!!!

But, really once we were there we had a blast! We forgot about what an ordeal it was getting there and we just played and had fun. I think Hannah would have stayed forever if we would have let her. The girl has no fear!!! She wanted to ride every single ride she saw and she didn't do ANY of the dinky little kid rides, she did the real rides! Daddy was so excited that he had a roller coaster partner. I didn't protest much, because I didn't think she would be allowed on those FAST, scary rides, but she was...and she loved them! I just turned my head and tried to not watch how fast and jerky the rides really were!

We were there forever and the girls did awesome! Especially sweet Alice Anne that didn't get to do much. She was such a sport riding around in the wagon watching big sister and daddy ride those crazy rides. She just watched and giggled the whole time. Didn't whine once...she just smiled right through her nap time. The paci was a lifesaver, though!!

Brett and I were exhausted around 3:30 and we were ready to go. We started heading out...yes, JUST as the game let out!! Seriously?!?!? We just looked at each other and laughed. We felt so stuck! We thought about getting a taxi to take us to our car at the train station, but what about the girls...we didn't have car seats. Then we thought about Brett taking a taxi and getting the car to come get us, but we probably never would have found him, so we decided to just battle the crowd and try to get on the train. It was literally shoulder to shoulder walking to the exit and all the drunks were tripping over the wagon, etc. We saw the line for the train and it was probably 200 miles long Are you kidding me?? We went out the exit not knowing what to do and a lifesaver policeman saw us and let us in the front of the Dart line and we hopped right on. It was really funny...when we were standing there waiting for the train he told everyone to "line up behind the red wagon!!" LOVED IT!!! Brett and I were trying to hide our faces because we didn't want everyone getting mad at the people with the red wagon. We were the 1st ones on the train and it only took us about 20 minutes to get to our car. It was packed to the max, but we had seats this time and everyone was SO nice!!

We made it home around 5:00, threw the girls in the tub and scrubbed them harder than we've ever scrubbed before, fed them and Alice Anne was OUT by 6:15 and Hannah was right behind her at 6:45. We had 2 worn out girls that had so much fun at the fair! What an fun adventure!!!

Fletcher's Corn dogs...YUM!! Our little chunky Alice Anne wouldn't have anything to do with them...what in the world?

She preferred goldfish!

This was the only "kid ride" that Hannah rode.

Roller coaster #1...this was FAST!

Alice Anne's 1 ride that she got to ride...the Carousel

The Mega Super Slide!! Hannah LOVED IT!!

Roller coaster #2...this thing was SO FAST I was sure Hannah was going to come off of it throwing up...

...but this was her face when she got off!!

Sweet Girl!

She really wanted to ride the bumper cars. She stood there saying, "ca, ca, ca"

This is what we looked like when we left...bows are nowhere to be found, cotton candy is stuck on our fingers and I'm getting screamed at by 2 little voices and given some really dirty looks for putting more sanitizer in their hands!!