My family went to the Oregon State Fair yesterday. It was my first visit to the fair. I wasn’t really impressed by the way the traffic flowed into the fair. You would think that for a state fair, there would be some form of guidance into the it, by the police or some other form. The Clark County Fair, has the state patrol and county deputies helping to direct the traffic into and out of the fair. Once we were able to get onto the Fair’s blue gate parking area, we were directed by the flow of parking to another parking area, the pink parking area, on the other side of the fair.
At the fair we first went to the dog show arena. My mother in law is involved in the 4-h with Josephine County. My daughter really enjoys looking at the dogs and animals. After lunch, we went over to the Great American Duck Race, were Abby and I raced a duck. While we were just given our duck to race, my duck wanted to get away from me, in doing so, I must have squeezed the pooh out of it and onto my shirt. I didn’t know that I had any poop on me until my wife seen it, just before I was about give her a kiss after the race. Anyway, Abby had a lot of fun, our duck came into 2nd place.
After the race we caught the end of a children show with Chinese Circus, kids mind you, doing amazing things, from bending, flipping, climbing a banner like a rope and doing wonderful tricks with it while climbing and falling. I would post pictures, but we were not allowed to take any.
We ended up spending the whole day looking at different things from shows, to art work done by kids in 4-h. Some of the things that some of these kids did were amazing, like welding from scratch working haduralic dumping beds to animal feeders.
To really see all that this fair had to offer I needed to have at least 2 days to visit it.
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