This week has been mostly about the fair. Tuesday was $1 ride day so we took the kids. Now you would think that $1 would be plenty for these rides anyway, but usually they're $2 or $3 apiece, which is highway robbery just like everything else there. But anyway, someone paid our admission fees for us. We don't know who. They man running the ticket booth at the gate just told us we were paid for, handed us $12 worth of entry tickets, and told us to have a good time. Best we can figure is it was just a random stranger doing a good work, and we were just the lucky recipients. We didn't see anyone we know there at all. So saving that money, we gave the kids $10 worth of ride tickets each and were able to get lemonades for them as well without breaking the bank. We wondered if 10 rides would be enough, but it was...there didn't seem to be nearly as many rides this year as you typically see at a fair. Maybe it's just because we were at a different one last year. But after the kids did the fun house and slides and kiddie coaster they were set, and we did the ferris wheel last with all 4 of us. I also tried the hit the thing with the sledgehammer to ring the bell game but it was set much harder than at Indiana Beach. The guy gave the kids the inflatable hammer toys anyway. Thursday I was back at the fair with Alicia from work and Toni formerly of work, for lunch. Friday Beth and the kids and I went to the fair again in the evening, this time to check out all the booths and to see the big cat encounter (nobody paid our entry fee that time). Alex had practically thrown a fit about being dragged to the big cat show but he really loved it (especially since a one tiger peed and a another pooped during the show. Tiger poo really stinks, too.) and so did Missy (but we knew she would anyway). Friday night we finally realized that Mom and Dad were going to arrive in Indy Saturday and not Monday, so on Saturday Alex and I drove down to the airport to pick them up while Beth and Missy went to the zoo in Fort Wayne with Missy's brownies troop for a zoo campout. They got to sleep overnight in the zoo, how fun is that! They were back this morning while Alex and I were blowing off church since Mom & Dad were here.