The Fair - Part Two - Rides

Little Ashley has discovered "rides" (thanks to a Chucky Cheese trip). At the Fair they of course had the scary "is this going to fall apart rides" - and of course Ashley had to go on some. We started off doing the spinning strawberries - which I went on with her. Lot's of fun!! Then Larry and her went on the carousel. Hailey enjoyed hanging out in the stroller eating snacks and having a drink.

Then she saw the dragon roller coaster (kiddie roller coaster). Let's keep in mind she only saw it while it was stopped. We took her over there and the carnival guy told all the kids to just stand by the cars - not get in yet - and of course there is Ashley so focused on getting on she heard nothing. She is trying to jump in already - so the guy let her in. She is waiting to go - Larry and I look at each other realizing that we have just let our little girl get on this scary ride all by herself!! Bad parent moment number 2,179~

Of course the thing jerks off to a start and she comes around the corner - with a complete look of terror! 2nd round - same thing. Larry and I are trying to yell that she is doing such a great job - I am sure she heard nothing - it was more us telling ourselves it was ok! 3rd round the screaming begins. Ashley is freaking out and just keeps yelling for me - how horrible is that!! And what can I do? I can't jump onto the moving ride and climb over all the kids to get to my little girl - even though the thought did cross my mind!! So all we can do is yell that everything is ok and pray the damn guy stops the ride soon! Eventually he did stop the ride and was nice enough to get her out first so I could scoop her up and tell her what a great job she did! I am so proud of her for being so brave!!

The best part - she didn't even want to go home after that - she wanted to go into the bouncy house - heck ya!!

Did the day end there - pretty much - after we let Ashley bounce in the house for a long time. We were never told there was a time limit - there never was a line. So why after 15 minutes did the dumb carny girl tell me she has been trying to get Ashley out of the bouncy house forever?? No idea - but I let her know there was no time limit - we weren't holding up any of the other kids from going in and she better never try to yell at my little girl again! Who does she think she is - my little girl just risked her life on the roller coaster - she deserves to bounce!! Whew!

So..... Larry had some funnel cake, Hailey had lots of water and we were off. Hailey was asleep before we left the parking lot and Ashley was asleep before we got home. It was a great day at the Fair!!