San Diego County Fair

Yesterday we went to the San Diego County Fair.  Peter's sister Laurel works there and got us free tickets so we took advantage of the offer and went to the fair.  Peter and Connor went last year, but it had been at least 15 years since I went last.  After we arrived we put sunscreen on Connor and then boarded the bus to take us from the free parking to the fairgrounds.  When we arrived we noticed Connor had gotten a free tattoo.  Peter was holding the fair pamphlet and the ink rubbed onto Connor's sun screened skin and stuck.  It took two baths to finally get most of it off.

We checked out the animals first.  There were rows and rows of chickens.  Some had fluffy feathers others looked pretty normal, this gal had a great hairdo.

We saw some sheep getting sheared, then they put jackets on them or big shirts.

I liked the garden area.  This was a cool design...three leaves held up like this with rubber bands. 

 I thought it was quite neat looking.

I think this one won second place.

Down the center of the room were tables lined with Dahlias, roses, orchids and many more.

After taking a look at the inside garden we headed over to the stage where David and his troop were doing some folk dancing.

Connor enjoyed a splash fest in the fountain.

He thought the water tasted pretty good too.

Then we went to the woodworking area.  I thought this was pretty awesome.  All the different colors of leaves are pieces of inlaid wood. 

Peter loved this, also all different pieces of wood.

Then we went to the outside garden.  I really liked these too.  This year's fair theme is Out of This World.  So here we have E.T. in the garden.

This is a picnic with helmet aliens-it took first place.

An astronaut made out of watermelon, zucchini and tomatoes.

Succulent chairs

A new drip water system with zucchini growing out of it.

Another fun succulent garden

Connor and grandpa feeding the cow.

 Connor enjoyed feeding the animals.

After an extremely short morning nap on the way to the fair, he crashed as soon as we got in the car to head home.

We were all exhausted!  It was a great day.