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It\u2019s County Fair Time<\/p>\n

Not that we want the grandkids to grow up faster than they already are, but we have been so anxious to start taking them to some events we hope they might enjoy.\u00a0 We took them to the UNL Rodeo in April at the Lancaster Event Center. That wasn\u2019t probably as interesting to them as we had hoped. Emma was concerned about the bathroom situation. Unfortunately the restrooms at the Event Center contain not only two or three toilet but there were probably 12 of them. All with loud flushers and the bathroom was equipped with air hand dryers, very noisy as well. A no no in Emma\u2019s book. She finally ended up going pee outside behind one of the buildings on the grounds. That\u2019s okay; we\u2019ll try a rodeo again next year.<\/p>\n

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We thought taking the girls to a County Fair would be a good adventure for them. Something new and different. The Lancaster county fair is way too big, lots of walking. So we settled on the Cass County Fair. It was the perfect size. After we picked the girls up from home, we stopped at Chick-fil-A to get lunch and headed to the fairgrounds. We detoured in Murray to their village park to eat. The park was small with some picnic tables, swings, wood teeter-totters and a spider shaped jungle gym, and we had it all to ourselves. After we ate, the girls wanted to play. One of the swings was an old board swing like they had when we were kids. I told Emma that so she started calling it the old-fashioned swing. She and Margaret both enjoyed swinging on it and the other swings. The wood teeter-totters were old, no handles to hang on to but Margaret wanted to give it try. They were shorter than ours so when you went up you were off the ground quite a ways. I would push down so she could go up.\u00a0 It was going pretty good until she started to lose her balance. She did good though, she hung on until I lowered it but that was enough for her.<\/p>\n

We finally got them loaded up and continued on to the fairgrounds. Before we even parked the girls could see the midway.\u00a0 Margaret\u2019s first comment when she got out of the car was \u201cit smells here\u201d. We told her that it smells like a Fair. It was hot, sunny and dry here so we lathered them up in sunscreen and headed to check out the rides. We stopped at the first restroom and thankfully it had just the plain flush toilets and a regular paper towel dispenser.\u00a0 Emma gave it a thumbs up. \u00a0\u00a0The first ride Emma saw was the one she wanted to ride. It was a Tilt-A-Whirl that was all painted in purple and sparkled. We suggested walking down the midway to check out all of the rides before deciding which ones to ride. As we walked down, one of the booths was a fishing pond for little kids. Emma really wanted to give it a try. It\u2019s one of those where you hook a fish and that\u2019s the toy you get. They had lots of cute stuffed animals on display but I\u2019m sure you all know how that works. The fish with the best prizes were probably in the middle where most kids don\u2019t fish which was true for both of the girls.\u00a0 They were excited and hooked the closest fish they could. The attendant opened up some boxes right in front of the girls and told them to pick a prize. They both picked the same spiky pink rubbery ball. A 50 cent toy that cost $5.00.\u00a0 Grandpa and Grandma will know better next time for sure.<\/p>\n

Then we stood for awhile debating which ride we should try and we finally decided that we would start with the carousel, something slow that doesn\u2019t turn quickly and stays on the ground. Didn\u2019t want to start off our day with someone puking.\u00a0 Ken bought some tickets which didn\u2019t last long (but that was okay. It was really too hot to stay on the midway for very long). I thought it was nice that they let adults ride with the kids at no charge. I got to ride with them on the carousel and even though Emma was a little cautious (holding on with both hands) she really enjoyed the ride. Margaret on the other hand had no problem waving to Grandpa as we went around and she spent a lot of time looking up to see how this contraption thing worked and checking out the other riders. It was a good first experience. Across the way was a big slide where you had to ride down on gunny sacks. That was their next choice. Margaret rode with Grandpa and Emma rode with me. They really liked the ride and Emma thought it was funny that I lost my hat coming over the last hump.\u00a0 From there we went back to the carousel and rode some different animals. Emma rode a Dalmatian and Margaret rode a gold horse. Margaret wanted to drive one of the cars on the track, sounded safer than her driving the jeep at home (haha).<\/p>\n

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At Emma\u2019s request she and I went down the big slide again. And again I lost my hat . . .\u00a0 giggles from Emma.<\/p>\n

By then we were out of tickets and it was time to get out of the sun. Emma pointed out the sno-cone stand and so they each got a strawberry flavored one and we found a picnic table in the shade.<\/p>\n

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Right next to the picnic tables was a free min-golf area. After they finished their sno cones Ken took the girls golfing. It really wasn\u2019t Margaret\u2019s thing, she was more interested in the turning obstacles on the course. Emma enjoyed it and was ready to go from one hole to the next. She did spend some time trying to figure out if she should golf left-handed or right-handed.<\/p>\n

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