LA Country Fair 2013

We made our annual trip to the L.A. County Fair again. It was once again going to be a hot day, so we planned ahead of time to just spend time seeing the air conditioned exhibits and to leave when we were through there.

First we searched for the kids' projects to see what ribbons they'd won. They were pleased with the results.

Ellie's sewing project

Ellie's Little Miss poster

Josh's coloring page

Ellie's Gandalf

Josh's crown

Ellie's comic "Chicken in a Minute on Venus"

Josh's comic

Ellie's photos - This one is my favorite!

I "mustache" where you are from?

Prairie girls

We spent a great deal of time in the Pencils 2 Pixels The Art of Animation exhibit. A great history of how animation has evolved over time.

We had a quick snack outside and then headed into the Underneath the Sea exhibit

Checking out the sting rays and horseshoe crabs

Even though we didn't walk around that much this time around; we still stopped for a foot massage.

The following Friday night, Ellie entered the Favorite Cookie Contest. We received a parking pass and two tickets to get into the fair. Friday was canned food night; so with 10 canned goods, both Dennis and Josh also got in free. We had time before the contest, so we took Dennis over to the Pencil 2 Pixel exhibit.

Josh had done book reports to earn his free ride tickets. Ellie decided that the rides were too young for her and she opted not to do any book reports. Josh didn't want to do the rides alone, so he shared his six tickets with his sister.

We spent some more time in the America's Kids' building

After we dropped off Ellie's cookies, Dennis and Ellie visited the barn. Josh didn't want to go because he said it was too smelly!

Ellie's Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Truffle cookies ended up earning 2nd place. Next year we'll have both kids enter the contest and hope for 4 free tickets. And we know that once we drop the cookies off at 6:30, we don't have to be back until 8 for the results! Overall, it was another fun year at the fair!