at the fair

Thursday night we took the boys back to the fair to watch Klaudia and Loni win (Great job, girls!) in the Consumer Clothing show. Lots of family were on hand, including Laura and the kids. Liam has decided that Kelsey and Emma are his new best friends. They ran and played all night, and when the girls decided that they wanted to go on rides, of course, Liam wanted to go too. Unfortunately, the girls chose a mini (very mini) roller coaster shaped like a dragon for their first ride of the night.

This being Liam's first fair ride ever, he didn't know what to expect. He was perfectly happy to climb right up into his seat and chat with the girls before the ride started...


And he was even fine for the first go-round when the thing was going pretty slowly. But then they picked up speed, and poor Liam screamed and cried through the whole thing.


After that, he didn't trust us when we told him that the next ride that Kelsey and Emma wanted to go on -- the carousel -- wasn't so bad. Can't say that we blame him. So Max and I went on, and Liam really missed out, because Max had a blast on HIS very first fair ride!


But all was not lost. Liam eventually found the courage to go on another "ride." This one was more like a child's obstacle course, where he had to climb under, over, and through things, then get to the top, find his way across, and come down a slide. For some reason the pictures of this thing all turned out really trippy, but I kind of like them.



See you next year, fair! Maybe Liam will defeat the evil baby roller coaster with another year under his belt.