We have officially been in Tennessee for a year now. I will be able to easily mark the day because it is when the county fair is in town too. I remember seeing the ferris wheel last year, but we never found the time to go – you know in the middle of moving your family of four to a foreign state and all. So this year, I was ready.

We had a lot of fun. There was dog shows, hog racing, BMX-ing, petting zoo, rides, fireworks, and of course nachos. What event is complete without nachos? Megan is a big fan of dogs, so we thought watching the water-jumping dogs (I am sure they have real name) and the frisby dogs would be fun. They both enjoyed the shows and Megan had people around us turning around laughing because she was cheering them on. We viewed some farm animals like Texas Longhorn, calves, baby goats and sheep, chickens, rabbits, camels even a kangaroo. I would like to know what farm is raising kangaroos. However, with the e-coli signs on every pin, I refused to let the girls touch any of the animals, except the rabbits well and the goats “touched” Alyssa. She wanted to feed them out of her hand and I should have known that was a bad idea. She stuck her hand out and about 15 goats raced to the fence and then I hear screaming and the 25 cents of food is on the ground. You would have thought the goat bit her, but turns out they were just licking her hand. That’s our sensitive child. There were several rides that looked fun for her too, but again, she only wanted on the carousel. Maybe next year, Megan can encourage her a bit.

As we were leaving, we caught the firework show. Alyssa and Ethan sat and enjoyed it while I took Megan to the car covering her eyes and saying “too loud”. All the way home she repeated, “mommy, firewooo tooo loud.” All in all a very fun evening.

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