Day 180 - All's Fair

Pull Teagan! Pull! 

We went to the Alameda County Fair today with Kim and her boys. It's become a tradition, I think that this might be the 4th year we have gone to the fair together for the day.  It's a good fair; animals, rides, food on a stick. Yesterday's rain meant that it wasn't hot at the fair, which is atypical but very enjoyable.

We entered the kids in a tractor pull, because it's always fun to watch your kids attempt to pull like 5 times their body weight. And we got to watch a circus with clowns that told jokes about toilet paper, clearly hysterical to the kindergarten set.

I ate a turkey leg, which I have been wanting to eat since our trip to Disneyland. And after getting home from Disneyland, I saw a women at the Light Rail station eating a turkey leg.  You can only have three turkey leg sightings before you give in and eat the damn turkey leg. So the fair turkey leg it was.

I am not a big fan of the "walk and eat" method of eating turkey legs, it's a bit to Fred Flintstone for me, and I am not a big fan of gnawing meat off a bone anyway. Happily we were able to sit and eat in our spot, the wine garden area. My family always bbqs the turkey at Thanksgiving, so that red, roasted dark meat is usually something I only get to enjoy once a year. It was a really good turkey leg. Kim, Teagan and Lydia all ate some of the turkey leg and agreed it was a very tasty turkey leg.

After!

Before

At the fair, there was a booth that was doing ear piercing. It seemed like a bad idea to have their girls' ears pierced at the fair, but it seemed like a great idea to leave the fair and go to the mall to get Lydia's ears pierced.  We've been having this conversation about ear piercing for about 6 months now and both the girls collected information from others about how much it would hurt. For the moment, Lydia was the only one willing to commit, and so to Claire's we went and had her ears pierced. It was hard to watch, but she only cried a little bit.