Do the Puyallup!

When I was in grad school, I worked at a home for developmentally disabled adults.  One of them, Judy, always looked forward to going to the fair in Spring and Fall.  She was blind and didn't talk a whole lot but she could sing the Puyallup Fair commercials, "Do the Puyallup!" forward and backwards. 

We haven't done the fair too often with the boys but when Max won tickets, we had to go.  Max's baseball game was rained out but it was still a great day for the fair, nice, overcast and a pleasant temp.

We started out with some face painting.

 And then we discovered some fun animals.  Jase saw turtles!

Since Ryan loves frogs, here he is with a huge African frog.

And more...

 Then we played a little music.

and enjoyed all that the fair had to offer.

We let the boys do rides for the first time! 

Another highlight was learning about wool.  It starts on the sheep and then it gets spun into yarn and knitted or woven into cloth.  The boys really liked learning about this process and people were so nice to explain it to them. 

Here, these people are singing and "waulking", a Scottish tradition of wetting woven, wool  cloth and pounding it, pushing it along to make it more dense.  They would sing as they did it and it was their social gathering.

We also enjoyed listening to the bagpipes and thinking of my parent's first mission and our ancestry. 

Daddy and Max getting ready to ride the Starship 2000 (which will always be the Gravitron to me).  Next time I'll join them! 

Cowboy Max 

And the "Thank a Farmer" magic show. 

So much fun!