California State Fair!

Let me start with apologizing... the husband dropped the backpack and broke the new camera... so no pictures from today's adventures.... and it was a doozy! Go figure, the one day we HAVE the camera, and it DOESN'T work! We headed to Sacramento for the State Fair, where we joined the Smith family for an afternoon of fun. We had a fun scavenger hunt in the garden area searching for the different color fruits and collecting stamps in our passports, after which we were rewarded with a piece of fruit and a juice box - a HUGE hit with the kids! Then we went to the "livestock nursery" area to see the new baby pigs etc. While looking at the baby pigs Daddy saw a worker run by talking in her walkie talkie saying one of the cows was giving birth. So we high tailed it over in time to see a hoof hanging... and 40 min or so later out was pulled a baby bull. The little boys had long since lost attention and so left with the daddy's to go collect corn dogs on the way to the beer garden, but us women stayed around to watch his birth! I am not sure if I was happy or not that at the last minute the mommy cow turned around so we couldn't see the actual birth of the baby, but we were there. Then we headed for a quick lunch and tour of the animal barns, followed by the petting zoo and then we headed to what the kids had asked for all day... the rides. On the way, Ian on daddy's shoulders fell asleep, and Lauren (riding backwards on our sit 'n stand stroller fell asleep with her head forward only caught by the shade.) We got quite a few "awwww" smiles as we headed back up the midway. All I could think was don't let Lauren slump enough to fall straight through and onto the ground, or Michael (with a dead weight resting on his head) to let go of those feet... and WHY don't we have a working camera for THIS kodak moment!!! So that was 2 moments I would have paid a pretty penny for a working camera today! We won't mention the detonation once we got back to the car and Lauren awoke in the transfer only to realize she WASN'T getting to ride any rides... or the half hour car ride of screaming... but it was a great time none the less, full of moments and memories we shall talk of for years to come!