Fun Fair

On Saturday I took the kids to a fun fair at a local church. The church gave out 20 free tickets to each child. Additional tickets were five for a dollar. The kids immediately spotted the train and wanted to go on it. The train was five tickets a person.
Next they did the big slide. The first guy we talked to said it was five times down the slide for five tickets. Since it was still early and not crowded, Wesley went ten or more times for his five tickets. In the same amount of time, Lydia went four times. She was much slower climbing the big ladder. Later in the day when it was crowded we found out it was suppose to be five tickets for one trip down the slide. Before we left, I went by the registration table and gave them some money for the all the extra slides Wesley and Lydia got at first.

Jumping in the moonbounce was three tickets for about five or more minutes. Of course, my kids loved that.

Wesley and Lydia got to check out the inside of a police car.

While I was taking this picture another dad walked up and said to me, "Let's hope this is the only time you see her in the back of a police car."

We met up with some friends and went to ride the ponies (five tickets). This pony was very big, just under 14 hands. While the adults stood in line for the kids to ride the pony, the kids played on the playground. Wesley started to get some trucks out of a storage bin at the playground. I told him not to get the trucks out and he acknowledged he heard me but he chose to disobey and get the trucks out. So, he didn't get to ride the pony as a consequence for deliberately disobeying.

The kids loved the petting zoo area (no tickets required). Wesley wanted to pet all the animals, especially the ducks.

Leslie said that the llama looked like her and that her kids really do have a llama mama. Silly mama.

Maybe Wesley was a little wild at the Fun Fair because he ate 2 3/4 donuts for breakfast. He wasn't really hungry for lunch and just wanted water. Lydia ate popcorn while I had a hotdog. I know, we were really eating well that day! We had pizza for dinner.

While we were eating, the winners of the door prizes were announced. There were five or six winners and Leslie's two girls were two of the winners! One girl won a Candy Land game and one girl won an extra twenty free tickets.

While we ate lunch, the kids enjoyed listening to and watching the orchestra perform.

Leslie rode the train with all the kids.

There was a guy making free balloon animals for the kids.

There was also free face painting but the line was very long. The kids bounced in the moon bounce again and then I rode the spinning ride with the kids and we called it a day so I could come home and watch the rest of the Hokie game with Chris.

The church must have spent a fortune on the fun fair. The food was so cheap, they weren't making a lot of money from it and they gave away so many tickets and charged so little for the rest of the tickets that I did not spend very much money. The church was promoting its new sermon series and Bible study groups. It was a great outreach to the community.