NC State Fair

(view from the top of the ferris wheel)

We have skipped the fair the past few years and so this year as soon as we had a free afternoon we headed straight there. Anna's request was to ride the ferris wheel and mine was to get some candy apples. We ventured out to the free public parking and put the girls in the double stroller which we haven't used in some time.


(this is Maddie's "cheese" face)

The line to buy tickets took awhile and of course the whole time I was in it I was thinking to myself - we should have bought tickets beforehand... hopefully next time I'll remember. We made our way through the chaos to some of the younger kids rides and the girls jumped right on the hot air balloons. It was a little weird turning the girls loose to get on the ride by themselves; they are growing up. Of course, as soon as they got off they wanted to ride something else so they did the Wirly Worm and eventually the twirly pirate ship ride.




As Anna requested, we had to ride to ferris wheel and so this was our longest line by far. The girls and I rode as Erik took pictures from below. The girls loved it!





And of course, we had to partake of some of the fair food - though we were not very adventurous. We had our usual corn dog, funnel cake, apple fritters, candy apples and the girls enjoyed an ice cream cone.




It was a great day at the fair!