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LA County Fair

This was our second time going to the fair. This time we meet up with Matthew, Jung and Danielle. We had a really great time with them and they were so great with Penny. As usual it was incredibly hot! As in 97 degrees. We had to take a lot of drink breaks. We had a full day with a visit to the farm section where we went in a petting zoo area, took Penny shopping, milked cows, saw gigantic pigs!, talked to owls, saw a turkey race and got Penny an ice cold milk! We started lunch by sharing brisket, a tri-tip mash potato bowl and moved on to cotton candy, fried pickles, frozen lemonade, shaved ice, popcorn, donuts, and fried Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Oh yeah and bottles and bottles of water and beer!  We got $50 worth of tickets and had fun winning prizes for Penny. She loved the rubber ducky game. We won 3 bananas and one Hello Kitty stuffed animals for all of our efforts!  It got so hot Penny really wanted to play in water. She wanted to play with the Sparklets water tower, she wanted to go on the log ride with her uncles but it was the hot tubs she got to play in. I'm sure I wasn't supposed to let her in for as long as I did but no one said anything and I needed to get her cool (the water was cool). I think they understood because of the heat. Afterward Penny was cool enough to take a nice long nap in her stroller. Overall, it was a fun day with friends!

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