If I Take My Camera to Fair on the Square…

…it will rain.

I take full responsibility for our local Fair on the Square getting rained out. Each year I take my camera it rains. When I don’t, it is hot, sticky and dry. The conclusion is not terribly difficult to draw, albeit rather egocentric.

Next year I’ll take the camera AND an umbrella or two.

Because of my inherent selfishness (which requires me to bring my camera anyway), we weren’t able to stay there long, but we did manage to make two very important stops.

First, the balloon man – what’s a fair without a balloon man?

Meredith will wait a long time for the balloon man.

This shot above is Mer in 2007 with her heart hat??? What do you call that thing? I’m thinking I prefer the alien from this year much better.

Kenny and his buddy decided they both needed balloon guns. Cuz in Texas? We like to pretend to shoot our friends. We’re “backwoods” like that.

I don’t think he’ll grow out of it soon – 2 years ago? Same game…

…different gun.

I know you’re probably wondering what kind of balloon Emelie picked, right?

Waaaaaaa!
None!
She’s too OLD for balloons.
Seriously – after she said she wasn’t getting one I had to tuck away my dream for a dragonfly. Do we HAVE to mature with our kids?

*sigh*

“Umm…skies aren’t looking so great Momma!”

But see, there was one last stop we HAD to make.

KETTLE CORN!
What is a fair without a sticky bag of kettle corn.
It is nothing.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

And then?
The sky exploded into bullets of pelting rain and we took off running to the truck parked several blocks away.

Thankfully a friend of mine saw my camera and passed me an umbrella (and that man was TRULY SOAKED TO THE BONE when he arrived at his car). So my head and camera stayed dry, but the rest of me and my kids were soaked.

Of course that didn’t stop us from going straight to Schlotzsky’s to meet up with friends for a post-fair lunch.

I love Saturdays.