Summer Adventures: The Fair

The fair rolled into Farmington the middle of August complete with elephant rides and diving dogs.  Once again, it was hot (the story of this summer), and there was a fire on the hill by Lagoon but we thought we would brave the elements and take the kids down.  We stopped and stuck our heads through the photo prop:

The highlight of the fair was the animals.  We visited goats, rode ponies again (yay!) and fed some baby animals carrots in the little petting zoo.  We watched and got splashed by the diving dogs and walked over to see the elephants but the line to ride them was insanely long and we opted not to stand there for hours in the heat.

While brother and sister were riding the horses, this cute chub-a-lub practiced her sticking out her tongue skills. :)

The kids were spoiled with some free balloons in the discovery tent.  Bailey wanted to have a pink sword:

 And Coop wanted a pink elephant:

They also got face painted by some people that I'm pretty sure haven't face painted a day in their lives. :) Using stencils that were *way* too big, Bailey got a pink monkey and Cooper got a pink flower.  Yes, we are a household of pink folks.  The people used toll paints and I spent the next half hour making sure that it didn't touch their clothes.  When it finally dried, it started to peel, so we didn't get any pictures and we learned that maybe we shouldn't be so cheap when it comes to face painting. :)