Our afternoon at the fair

Fairs bring a bit of nostalgia for the "good ol' days" when neighbor competed against neighbor in friendly competition to simply be the talk of the town. I wish we could go back to those simpler times. Joey and I visited the "simpler times" for a few hours when we visited the Southern California Fair. We have fair grounds less than ten miles from our home and we took advantage of that.

It was small as far as fairs go but it had most of the necessary components--rides, games, food, displays, live country music, and animals. Much to our dismay, the fair was missing one major component, fried food. We searched high and low for a fried Pop Tart or Snickers, we would have settled for a fried Twinkie. But, alas we could only find fried chicken and an assortment of fried vegetables, BORING. We walked through a tent where local high school students competed in their landscaping skills. Yet another tent was filled with art work, photos, needle work, quilts, and handmade clothing items. There were the typical 4H and FFA farm animal competitions. The high schools from my school district had sheep, pigs, and various other livestock in the competition.

The sheep provided one of our most memorable events at the fair. Joey was baaaahing at all the sheep and one of them really took offense to this. It angrily baaaaahed back. That was one grumpy sheep. We had a wonderful date night laughing and walking together, wishing today's society would go back to those good ol' days. Here are some of our goofy moments, including Joey trying to fight the angry sheep.