Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Summer to me is not complete without at least one trip to a fair. The Delaware State Fair is a great little fair, and let’s face it, Delaware is a small state. It is an agricultural state for sure, particularly once you travel south of the ditch (That’s what we locals call the Delaware-Chesapeake Canal) .

Ahhh, the fair. If you haven’t been to one you should try it, and that’s coming from this city-slicker. But DH converted me to needing to visit a fair to make summer complete many, many years ago. You’ll never know what you will find either. Our surprise this year was the ’slow-bicycle race’. Amazingly I got ScienceKid to give it a try.

Yes, the objective is to go as slow as possible. The record was 45 seconds but most kids were in the 10 to 20 second range which is where SK was.

The boys were also dreaming about the rider they would love to find in the shed for them to use. This photo was not staged, other than to ask them to look at me. Do you see that longing in their eyes?

First, though we spent time walking through ALL the barns. Cows,

and cows:

and goats:

and sheep:

and hogs.

hmm. Notice something strange? The cows, goats, and sheep were all eating, but not the hogs. Nope. They are relaxing. So why do we say, ‘you eat like a pig’? In all the fairs I’ve attended I have never, ever seen the hogs eat. The other animals though, always seem to be pigging out. I have seen hogs eat particularly since BIL in Ohio is a hog farmer, but not at the fair. Not the way the cows and sheep and goats are.
In the commercial building there’s always a sand sculptor. This year it had lots of details:

We watched sheep being clipped in anticipation of their show:

and we watched the sheep judging:

We also watched the Lego Building Contest.

And that’s something else I like about a fair. Watching all the competitors. This year I was determined to have us enter several items but I missed the deadline, by two days. Next year though. Next year….

Then there are the rides. We rarely go on rides at a fair since MK loses his cookies so easily but we do enjoy looking them over. This one was a stomach twister for sure and one we had never seen before.

MK and I actually had trouble watching the ride, and watching how the folks were twisted and turned and twisted some more.

Food. Yes there’s lots of food at the fair but I don’t have any photos of the food since I was busy eating elephant ears and…..