The Zipper at the Spring FairThe Spring Fair in Puyallup! Carnival rides, games of skill, win a stuffed animal, whole buildings devoted to the arts, agriculture, animals, and food!
Our choices today included: chicken gyros, strawberry lemonade, strawberry funnel cakes [with 5 inches of whipped cream on top!] and scones with sweet cream butter and raspberry jam slathered inside. Everything cooked and created right before our very eyes after we'd ordered it. So fresh and so delicious!!
Between bouts of food, we managed to see Mexican caballeros on their gorgeous mounts, parading Scottish bagpipers drumming and piping through the fairgrounds, artists in action making candles, pots, and quilts, western antiques, art, and collectibles, traveling vendors with bargain priced goods from around the world, water dogs performing running and jumping into the pool for their toys, piglets racing for Oreos, and so much, much more.
The Puyallup fairgrounds has history all its own -- but that will be discussed in the future. For today, in this, the here and now, a few hundred thousand of us chose to escape our troubles and worries and step back into the time when there were no troubles, no worries. We were all children today, choosing just the right little toy or souvenir, deciding on the most delicious item for lunch -- and other simple decisions, like should we see the rabbits first or the newly hatched chicks first?
Such a day of laughter and silliness and fun! Enjoyable and unforgettable!
Life is good!
Our choices today included: chicken gyros, strawberry lemonade, strawberry funnel cakes [with 5 inches of whipped cream on top!] and scones with sweet cream butter and raspberry jam slathered inside. Everything cooked and created right before our very eyes after we'd ordered it. So fresh and so delicious!!
Between bouts of food, we managed to see Mexican caballeros on their gorgeous mounts, parading Scottish bagpipers drumming and piping through the fairgrounds, artists in action making candles, pots, and quilts, western antiques, art, and collectibles, traveling vendors with bargain priced goods from around the world, water dogs performing running and jumping into the pool for their toys, piglets racing for Oreos, and so much, much more.
The Puyallup fairgrounds has history all its own -- but that will be discussed in the future. For today, in this, the here and now, a few hundred thousand of us chose to escape our troubles and worries and step back into the time when there were no troubles, no worries. We were all children today, choosing just the right little toy or souvenir, deciding on the most delicious item for lunch -- and other simple decisions, like should we see the rabbits first or the newly hatched chicks first?
Such a day of laughter and silliness and fun! Enjoyable and unforgettable!
Life is good!
4 comments:
Sounds like this was a really nice day out. Spring is a great time of the year.
We did have a great afternoon! And I was very glad of the escape! Thanks for stopping by! :)
I haven't made it to the Spring Fair, and am going to try to make it next year. But, now you know why I love to do The Puyallup! WoooHooo!!
Judy -- we had a lot of fun -- it was a scaled down version of the Fall fair. But everyone was so glad to be out and about, no one missed the additional exhibits. It certainly was crowded like the big fair. They set a record this year. [They sent info in an e-mail a few days after it closed.] So let's plan on going next year. Of course, we have The Puyallup to do this fall, too! :)
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