Fairly bad

We attempted to "Do the Puyallup" today, that being the big annual agricultural fair for this region. (Puyallup, for those of you not in the know, is pronounced "Pyoo All Up.") We knew it was a little crazy to do it on the same day as a kid birthday party but thought what the heck. We figured it's an hour drive, Aaron will nap on the way, it'll be fun.

We did have some fun. We saw a draft horse show, observed lots of cows-llamas-goats, cooed at cute baby pigs and petted big pigs, rode in a gondola, and ate bad food. All for a mere $60! But there were a lot of long lines ... half an hour for the gondola, etc. And that was after driving an hour to get there, and then hitting traffic and inching our way to the mysterious shuttle parking lot and catching a bus to the fairgrounds and waiting in line for the ticket, so that the whole trip from door to gate was 2.5 hours. And Aaron did not nap on the way down as planned, so by the time we left at 6:30 he was a complete nutcase. It only took us 1.5 hours to get home, yahoo.

That's about as much Puyallup Fair as we need for ... let's say ... the next decade. Ask us again in 2020. There is a smaller, closer fair we might try out next summer, the Evergreen State Fair. Fortunately that's already over this year.