A "Fairy" Good Time at the MN State Fair

We ventured to the MN State Fair this morning. We decided to go to a Park and Ride so that Ignacio could ride a "big bus" and he was a bit disappointed when he found out we weren't going to school but rather a fair. The entire way he asked if he was going to get to see the "piggies" and we assured him that indeed he would see the piggies. My favorite memories of the State Fair are cheese curds, the glider that takes you over the whole fair (my sister and I rode it every year) and the big slide. This year we accomplished two...we left the slide for next year.

Ignacio pet a pig, a sheep, a goat, and a cow. We spent 75% of our time at the big animal barns. He has been very inquisative about animals lately. Just yesterday he asked me if wolves were a type of dog and if owls were a type of bird....oh yea, and if frogs ate bugs. I didn't have all the answers. There was a big cow ready to give birth at the "Miracle of Birth" barn and people were gathered around her big circular pen. I looked to the woman next to me and said, "Poor cow. She needs a midwife and quiet, dark room." I could most relate to the big mama sow. She was laying there, as if to say, "I'm exhausted!" and the little piggies just came and ate off of her. That's how I feel some days...like a mama sow. We made it home mid-afternoon with great memories and heads ready for the pillow.


Ignacio eating his fifth Sweet Martha's Cookie...the MN equivalent of the cream puff.

Just be glad that you can't smell pictures because here we are in the cow barn...

Night, night Emilio. Apparently he didn't need to see the "Miracle of Birth" barn. He figured he was just birthed so had a pretty good idea of what it entails.