Okay, so we didn’t get much book work done yesterday, but how can you miss the North Carolina State Fair?! 

Mom, I’m ready to ride rides!!!  Right now! 

Well, not yet, we must eat. 

Oh my!  These gourmet candy apples (for just 5 dollars apiece – YIKES) were delicious.  Michaela and I shared one.  Can you guess what kind she picked?

I love the bright displays.  This one looks old in design, but bright and shiny and new!

Ooooooooooh looooooooooooooook. 

That’s what we said. 

Those are Braham cattle above.

Ooooooooooooooooh.  (We said that a lot.)

Can you imagine being able to sleep that soundly?!

The State Fair offers so many opportunities to learn about North Carolina. It’s really a wonderful thing to take advantage of. Here, a poster shows the life cycle of the honeybee.

More honey displays.  So many beautiful things made of beeswax.  Jars of honey.  Yum.  They even had cotton candy spun from real honey.  It was amazing!  Much better than the sugary stuff.

I was impressed by the sign above.  Colony Collapse has been a major concern in many areas.

Princess of the Universe gets on the cell phone to try and find out where Grandma and Aunt Shelby have gotten to.

The plants listed above (you can’t read the writing in the pictures_ are:

• cotton
• sumac
• tupelo gum
• blackberry
• blueberry
• mountain mint
• bee balm
• sourwood
• pepperbush
• holly
• locust
• ladino clover

This brave man got into this wire cage with a bee hive.  Yes, you read that right.

Actually, I am not terrified of bees, but I do think it would take nerves of steel to get in there with those bees, as some landed on his face, his arms, his neck, and talk to the crowd while working with the hive.

 

That huge horse above…  Well, you might want to read about it!  Going all the way back to the middle ages, your son might be interested in this.

 

They also had information about the mule, in case you were not aware of how they come about.

It’s time to ride rides!!  Yes, I am about to go into the Cuckoo Haus.

And then it’s onto the Flying Bobs.  It may be more like Flying Hair-Buns.  I wonder if my hair will stay up

We are strapped in and ready to fly.  I thought of taking a video, but Miss Priss told me no.  She meant it, too.

Do we look ready to fly?

Oh, you must see Michaela jump.  She gets strapped in. 

Doesn’t that look like fun?  I passed on it though, especially since I was wearing a skirt. 

Let’s go into the house of mirrors and try to find our way out.

The Cliff Hanger was really fun.

 

By the time the ride was over, Miss Priss had made friends with the children on either side of her. 

My oldest son showed up with his girlfriend.

She’s so beautiful.  And even sweeter than she is beautiful.

Michaela loved holding the baby chicks.  She also got to hold a baby duck.

Finally, I thought you might want to hear and see the inside of the livestock building where the chickens are.   Fun!

Today we must buckle down and get some school work done.  Yes ma’am.  Part of today’s assignments will be to write a journal entry about the state fair.  Oh, and there will be a separate post for the pumpkins, since we are studying the Pumpkin Runner.

Happy Fall,

Lynn