Happy Mother's Day! No, do not check your calendars, it was my mom's day at the fair. Yesterday I took my dad out, and today was my mom's turn. We headed out after church, and our first activity was to watch the acrobat show, "Flippin'." This troop of acrobats are very talented, and many of the acts they performed showed tremendous arm, leg, and ab strength. I posted a video of one of their acts, where they were on a spinning pendulum with a circular cage on each end. upon which they were walking, jumping rope, and even walking blindfolded. They performed rope and trapeze acts, balancing acts, and balancing on a precarious-looking high stack of chairs. We enjoyed the show, despite some of the heart-stopping acts they did. From there, we decided to walk through the buildings. We collected quite a cache of free stuff, as well as sample some things that were made available to us. One such sample was a health drink that was supposed to make us feel sooo much better within the hour. After an hour, we felt nothing different, and we were glad we didn't purchase anything past the sample. We also got to sample the many dips in the Meadowlark Building. Get a pretzel stick and dip! There was also an area that sells coffee and bread, and there were many varieties of sweet coffee to sample, such as snickerdoodle, hot fudge sundae, and black forest. The sample breads and dipping sauce were amazing! This booth is in Sunflower North. We walked outside to the north side of Sunflower North, and found a Veterans booth. We got some good info concerning veteran health care, and how my dad could benefit. They were very nice to us, and they seemed to really care about how my dad was getting the benefits he was entitled to. From there, we were hungry, so we headed over to Cottonwood Court, the food court building in the center of the fairgrounds. Our tradition is to eat at ChinaGo Chinese restaurant. We figured that this is our 21st year of coming out here and eating at ChinaGo. They always get an A from me. Afterwards, we decided we wanted to hang around the Channel 12 building to see if Bandaloni would show up. He must have been done for the day, because he didn't show. We went up and chatted with weatherman Ross Janssen, who is very friendly in person. Sadly, due to her age, Millie the weatherdog will not be returning to the fair. Ross has noticed that lately, she does not do well around people. Sad, but understandable. 😡 So, we thought we'd go check out the museum, which is housed in the Lair White House. It was closed. We know the Wienermobile was there yesterday, perhaps it was still there? Nope. At least there was a chance that Dillons would be giving away free ice cream. Not this time. Bummer! We thought we may as well walk down the midway and check out the rides. It was getting close to dark, so the lights on the rides were on. It was pretty. We met up with our friend Pat, who was my former neighbor when I lived on Main Street. We chatted for a while, and decided that we'd pool our money to get a funnel cake, and split it 3 ways. We stopped at Westmoreland's funnel cake stand across the street from Channel 12. We ordered a carrot cake funnel cake for $7.00. It was warm, with cream cheese icing drizzle on top. Yummo!! The lady who took our order was friendly and nice, and I'm awarding an A to them. Pat wanted to look for something in the Pride of Kansas building. While there, I met 2 wonderful dogs at the therapy/service dog booth. One dog was Marco, a golden, and Kora, a chocolate. I asked if they were on duty, and I was told they were on break. I knelt down, and Marco just melted into me and let me pet him. Then when I turned my attention to Kora, Marco laid his head on my lap and looked at me, as if to say, "Hey, get back here!" Lol. I was ready to take them both home right then and there, but I think they would have frowned on that, Lol. Mom was ready to go by then, so I got the car and we headed home. Mom said that she really enjoyed herself, as did I. My mom and I share many common interests, so when we go to the fair, we like to see and look at the same things. We're just kind of sad that some of the things we wanted to see were closed or unavailable. At least we enjoyed our time together.
Tomorrow is Dollar Day at the fair. Admission is only $1, but if you have a Dillons card, you get in free! All rides on the midway are only 1 ticket, and I believe that the tickets run around $1.25. My friend Christy and I will have a friend day there, and we like to ride the big Ferris Wheel. We always have a good time. I'll blog all about it tomorrow. As of right now, it's past 11:00, so I need to stop blogging and sleep, so I'll be ready for school in the morning. Thanks for reading! Have a good one! (If I made any typos, please forgive me. I'm too tired to check, Lol.)
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