A lovely day for the Fair...oh contrare!

We thought we'd try something different, do something special. What a mistake it ended up being! The Kane County Fair said they started at 8am, so there we were by 9am ready for the action. Instead, what we found were a few foreigners looking at cattle. Yep. Okay, maybe more than a few, but certainly nothing to do with children. All the rides didn't open till 12 come to find out. So what do we fill the time with? After paying a hefty sum to get in we debated getting our money back and just going home, but that cursed drive was behind us and I was not ready to get back in the car yet!

I thought I had a good plan by driving over to Naperville, but after already driving almost an hour to where we were, then driving a solid 20 min. further only to be 15 more minutes away, I lost it we turned back around and ended up at McDonalds to kill some time.
When we finally arrived back at the fair, Blake could only go on one ride. (don't you think if he's in my lap he should be able to do more than that?) The merry go round. So we tried that out after I gracefully mounted the horse while Blake was not all that happy about the ride of his non choice.
Iris only cared about the little strappy part on the stroller where Blake usually sits. The girl obsessed with trying to click it shut the entire time we were out. "Look over here Iris, there's a bunny! Look over here at the cow!" No, face down - conquering the stroller seat buckle like it was an olympic sport.

The highlight was getting a balloon for Blake, only to have it blow away as Joe put it in the back seat and I opened the other door to put Iris in the car ...a sad little boy in the parking lot waved "bye bye balloon"....that was the funniest part of the day.
We both realized by the time we were done today we could have just gone downtown for the same amount of driving & money...oh well, ya live and learn! We have one spare ticket token from the rides hanging in their nursery as a bleak reminder of our attempt at a fun day :)