The Washington County Fair in Rhode Island is an annual tradition for my family. My husband went to this fair every year as a child and it is pure nostalgia for him. I love going because I grew up going to county fairs similar to this in the Midwest. Our kids love the Washington County Fair because, hey, what kid doesn't love a fair.
Each year we seem to spend less time with the animals. The girls still enjoy the rabbits and the baby chicks. While there are some seriously strange looking chickens at the fair for judging, Anne refused to go into the barn to look at them because they were too noisy. The cow barns are located in the sunniest spot of the fairgrounds, so the girls are anxious to move on. In the past, we often spent a large part of our time at the cow barns. When Meg was a baby, my husband's relatives still showed cows at the fair and we would spend time with them at the cow barns. But those days have passed and now we move quickly pass the cows. All attention is on the rides.
Meg and Clare are ride daredevils. These two will ride anything. If they are tall enough to go on a ride, then they jump on it with absolutely no fear. Their two favorite rides were the two scariest. And yes, my children were on the rides pictured below when the pictures were taken. Yikes!
Each year we seem to spend less time with the animals. The girls still enjoy the rabbits and the baby chicks. While there are some seriously strange looking chickens at the fair for judging, Anne refused to go into the barn to look at them because they were too noisy. The cow barns are located in the sunniest spot of the fairgrounds, so the girls are anxious to move on. In the past, we often spent a large part of our time at the cow barns. When Meg was a baby, my husband's relatives still showed cows at the fair and we would spend time with them at the cow barns. But those days have passed and now we move quickly pass the cows. All attention is on the rides.
Meg and Clare are ride daredevils. These two will ride anything. If they are tall enough to go on a ride, then they jump on it with absolutely no fear. Their two favorite rides were the two scariest. And yes, my children were on the rides pictured below when the pictures were taken. Yikes!
Anne and I were playing it much safer. At this point, Anne does not like rides that go up in the air--even the ones designed for preschoolers. Anne refuses to ride many of the rides her sisters loved when they were her age. She definitely has some motion sickness issues, so I'm certain that impacts her choice of rides. At the fair, she liked three rides: the cars, the tea cups and the dragons (as long as I rode the dragons with her and kept our dragon from spinning too much). Anne and I just continuously walked in a circle, riding those three rides over and over and over again.
The Washington County Fair turned out to be a full day excursion for us. After drinking quite a bit of Del's frozen lemonade, the entire family returned home and collapsed in exhaustion.
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