Arlington County Fair

Today (August 9) I took Jasmine to a neighborhood fundraising carnival in a nearby neighborhood where we saw lots of people we knew from the community (some from the preschool and some from mutual friends). It was held in their neighborhood pool we so we did some swimming and they had these fun little games set up that we could buy tickets and play the games and buy food.
Jasmine really liked the goldfish game where they had plastic cups filled with water which had goldfish inside and a few that didn't have anything inside. If you threw the ping pong bottle and got it into a cup with a fish in it you won the fish and if you didn't, you didn't win anything. Jasmine won 2 goldfish. She was very excited and named them Captain and Pink.
That evening after her afternoon nap, we took her to the Arlington County Fair. It was one of those old school type fairs we all loved to go to when we were kids and Lorne and I were excited to share it with her. She was so excited. The first thing we found out when we got there was that these fairs are expensive. No wonder our parents only let us ride a handful of rides.
The only ride I rode as the Ferris Wheel with Jasmine. Lorne opted not to ride as it was very expensive and the only way Jasmine was allowed to ride was with an adult. It was a great view of the fair from up there but the wheel was rickety and made me nervous!
We let Jasmine ride a bunch of rides and then we got some carnival food dinner. Jasmine wanted pizza, Lorne got Chinese and I got Peruvian pupusas. I know, we should have had hamburgers and corn dogs, but when we saw the more interesting food, we opted for that instead. The food was decent, I really enjoyed mine because I also ordered fried plantains and I LOVE those.
After that we let Jasmine ride a few more rides, got her an ice cream resembling Sponge Bob Square pants (again, this is what Jasmine chose) Jasmine also got to sit in a firetruck and chat with the firemen. We left the fair around 9PM as Jasmine was exhausted and ready for bed. Jasmine slept well that night as you would imagine.