What Makes it So Fair?

10. Little Hands on the Farm! 

 This year Leah and I volunteered and boy was it hot!  And fun.  Would you like to know how many eggs a chicken lays every day or why farmers take showers before they visit their pigs?  Leah can tell you!

She has such sweet friends- and they're all taller than me! 

9. A big ol' bucket o' cookies!  Well earned after our 4-hours volunteering shift was over.

8. A funnel cake!  Much to Adam's disappointment, it's not shaped like a funnel cloud.  But it sure tastes great!

7. The air-conditioned buildings- 

where we get (#6) hard-boiled eggs on sticks!

and pay homage to (#5) the corn. 

And see the famous (#4) butter cow. 

And eat more eggs. 

And get some egg tattoos. 

3. The giant slide is possibly the most fun of all!  (We never have ventured over to the fair rides, so this is about as thrilling as it gets for us at the fair.) 

2. The animals!!  

Emma 

and Leah 

and Adam were all brave enough to milk Rosie the cow!

Noah was not really interested in it.  He was too hot! 

But we all loved seeing the baby piggies

and the one-day old baby goats!!

We even grabbed a group shot before we headed up into the sky for 

1. The SkyRider!

It was a perfect- and perfectly HOT day at the fair!

As one shirt read- "This year's fair brought to you by the COVID-19 vaccine."

We were all so glad to enjoy a normal bit of our Iowa summer traditions this year!