One summer morning last week, we decided to take Kenadie to the state fair. The weather was perfect!! 75 degrees in the dead heat of summer... We pulled up to the parking lot and it was surprisingly empty for 10am on a Sunday. Maybe church hadn't let out yet?? Who knows? Kenadie was wearing a cute little outfit and was ready to conquer the livestock auction. Our first stop was the piggies... or should I say, the over fed, rather plump BOR! He was HUGE!! Kenadie was puzzled by the noise the pig was making. "SNORTT, SNNOOORRRRTT!!!" She looked over at Aron with her eyebrows crinkled and pointed at his nose as if to say "his oinker is broken!" What she thought was that pigs said "Oink, oink" not "SNOOORRRTT!" So now Old McDonald has a new version... instead of an oink we have to snort as loud as we can. 
Then we moved on to the GINORMOUS cows. This was all too intimidating for her. The cute little cows that she sees everyday driving out of Lincoln (little because they are lost way far in the fields) were not so little anymore. We could barely get her to Moo for them. She whispered out a tiny moo... that was it. So we moved on... to the sheep. They were sporting a cloke to keep their wool clean. Kenadie loudly Baa'd at them and that was it...
Over to the PETTING ZOO!! Ok, so... in this petting zoo we had a plethora of animals. Let me list them: lamas, goats, deer, sheep, donkeys, and a WALLABY!! So amongst all these farm animals hops over a wallaby. The funny part was Aron and I kept calling it a Kangaroo until this very nice Latina lady corrected us and shouted "It's a WALLABY!" She payed attention in zoology class as I must have received an F! As we were petting all the friendly and mildly drugged animals, (I say this because they are all so docile for having hundreds of children running around them) a deer ran up behind me and started eating my shirt. His mouth had eating all the wait up to my bra! Are you kidding me deer!? I had to pull my shirt out of his mouth only to have him run over to other children and start eating their clothes... disaster! We then pet the donkey and RAN out before another hungry terrorist donkey ate our clothing.
That was the end of the animal tour as we were tuckered out from the fright of larger than life cows and pigs. We sat down for a nice BBQ lunch and then headed through the exhibits to watch all the made for TV inventions come to life. It was a good day. The next time we go, we'll go on some of the little kid rides. This was a test run and we passed with flying colors!
