Busy Saturday

So I left Charles at home and took Eli to this little fall festival at this place called Storybook Ranch. They had hayrides that would take you back to this old western town. It was pretty cool. In the saloon they had this old fashioned soda fountain where you could get shakes and pumkin ice cream. It would have been great except they had only one poor girl working the counter. It would take about 3 minutes for every shake and if you have ever frozen homemade ice cream, you know how hard it is to scoop. They had a woman with one of those spindle thingys weaving stuff. They had these cowboys do this fake gun fight. They had this caricature artist named Doc. Bless his heart, he was a very good artist except everyone he drew had the the same face and just different hair. I couldn't really enjoy too much of the festivities because being the genius I am I left the stroller in the car and allowed Eli to walk half the time. At one point, I caught him trying to eat rocks! Hold on there son. I'll get you some dip.
After that, we went to the Texas State Fair. It was crowded and a total pain in the butt but I think we enjoyed ourselves. We had free tickets to get in from my company but it costs us $10 to park. As we were going into the fair, this guy was leaving and asked us if we wanted his remaining coupons he had left. We thanked him and on closer inspection, discovered he had given us about $12 worth of coupons. What a nice guy!.
What is with the whole coupon thing, anyway. You have to go to a booth and buy coupons and you use them for rides and food. I am assuming they just don't trust carnies with cash.
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