The Faire Princess

This weekend was the Wyoming fair and parade. (not the US Wyoming, but the other one you are familiar with. ) We enjoyed this new experience with all of our being, well, i guess i'm speaking for Julia here, because i've personally been to my share of parades. Julia experienced: JOY. as seen in the picture below. i captured her face as the parade began. (pause for reflection upon individual first parade experiences....ah, aw, sigh. )



Awe - flags, drums, marching....her first thrilling drama of pomp and circumstance. it is one of those experiences that rattles your heart strings and makes life feel achingly lovely. simple pleasures of color and sound. (*sigh* bagpipes.)
SUGAR. mmmmm they threw lots of candy at us. julia wasn't really accustomed to this, so it took some work on our part to get her into the 'game' so other children didn't snatch ALLLL OF THE CANDY. hahaha. although, i must say, we sat next to very precious families, all of which had children bringing candies for miss jules when they thought she didnt' get enough. (little did they know I ATE a lot of it.....oops! what two year old needs a handful of toffees???)
Majestic beasts. So much muscle , strength and beauty. God designed such beautiful things.
okay, the fair was interesting for us. There is no 'midway' at this fair, but they always have a lot of children friendly blowup 'rides'. There were about 7 different blowup's and a climbing wall. One 'ride' was a tall stairs (approx. 15ft high?) up to a vertical slide.
GUESS WHICH ONE JULIA WAS DETERMINED TO GO ON??

Being tall for her age, she met the requirements for any of the children's activities. So, why not? i knew it was beyond her abilities, because climbing steep, pillowy stairs would be hard for her, but a friend of ours (about 9yrs old) was there, and helped her up. once at the top... she laid her towel down, sat on the edge of the cliff....and with a look of uncertainty, was pushed to her sliding, flying, tumbling descent. We laughed. collected our slightly shaken daughter (didn't know what she was in for) and headed out to another game.

This was her second choice: i guess she was opting for the safe side of things. hahahaha.