Tennessee State Fair

The fairgrounds - home of the annual Tennessee State Fair - is about a mile from our house.  We went to the State Fair last year and J.P. had so much fun that almost every Sunday since then when we drove through the fairgrounds on our way to church, he asked when the Fair would be back in town.  Much to his delight, the Fair arrived a couple of weeks ago and we made plans to go Thursday night.

As we prepared to leave the house, J.P was so excited he was literally bouncing up and down and grinning from ear to ear.  Unbridled joy, for sure.

As always, the food didn't disappoint.  Although I threatened to get a beef sundae, I didn't.  I did, however, eat a corn dog, french fries, most of Jude's Frito chili pie and some of J.P.'s soft serve ice cream.  Oh, and I had a small cup of chocolate milk from the Purity Milk exhibition booth.  And I felt sick on the way home. Yep, that's the State Fair.

For sure, J.P.'s favorite ride of the night was the Euroslide.  He rode it with me for the first time last year and loved it.  This year was no different.  If we rode it once, we rode it 8 times and J.P. enjoyed it every time we slid down.

We rode a small, "caterpillar" roller coaster made for children.  It was a bit loud for him, but he tolerated it pretty well.

He really got a kick out of skeeball, especially when I won a prize and he got to pick it out.  The funniest part, though, was when he threw two of the wooden balls completely off the track and under a trailer.  He cried when we wouldn't let him crawl under a tractor trailer to try and find them.

The safest thing we did at the State Fair was walk through the agricultural exhibit in one of the convention halls.  Of course, that's where J.P. tripped and fell into a small picket fence and got his first bloody nose.  Go figure.