Even if you look like a drowned rat when you are done :)
The kidlet and I walked to the fair last night and when we got there, it started to drizzle. We walked around for a bit before we purchased our “ride all the rides you want as many times as you want for twenty smackeroos” bracelets. I didn’t wanna fork over the dough until I knew they weren’t going to close the rides. No refunds means no refunds.
We went and got some fair fries (with lotsa vinegar, salt and ketchup! YUM!) and wandered around a bit til the drizzling stopped. Then, we went to get our “ratrywamtaywfts” (see above) bracelets. As soon as they slapped those bracelets on our arms, it started raining again. Meh. We went on the rides anyway. We went to the Hustler (that’s the one that someone puked in the other night and we couldn’t ride, remember?) and got in line. It was starting to rain a little harder and I thought, goody! This ONE FREAKING RIDE IS GOING TO COST ME 40 BUCKS! I was sure they were going to close down the rides now that I had my handy, dandy ratrywamtaywfts bracelet! We got on the ride and I was the only adult on this ride (DORK ALERT!). It was all good, the kids were pretty funny. This one kid was wearing those shiny, satiny shorts and with the wet seats, every time we spun around he slid across the seat, it was hilarious. At one point though, he looked a little green and I feared a vomitfest was about to unravel in the giant red crown. Ick. I am so not good with vomit. If I hear someone yacking, smell it, or see it, I too vomit. I was silently praying that kid didn’t toss his cookies. I screamed like a little bitch on the whole ride. Not because it was scary, but I just felt like it LOL! I got the kids screaming too, it was fun. The rain started falling harder as the ride progressed and we all got off the ride drenched. Ah well, it was fun.
We rode some more rides, I totally didn’t avoid the Tilt-A-Whirl, we rode that 3 times. Hit up the bumper cars, where all the kids ganged up on me…what’s up with that? Then we went in one of those fun house things where the floors move and the stairs move and there’s secret little holes that shoot air up your ass when you step on a certain spot. There was one of those at the very end of the damn thing and it scared the shiznit out of me, I screamed “WHOO!” really loud when it hit me and some guy that was standing there waiting for his child got hysterical. Oh, that blast of air was right after I had to walk through a giant spinning tube in wet flip flops…you try that some time, it ain’t easy. I was a little afraid of falling and looking like an ass. I told the carnie dude not to laugh if I fell. He asked me if I wanted help through and I totally pshawed him and said “no”. He totally just wanted to hold my hand, I know it.
It rained off and on and when it finally started pouring, we decided we should probably go home (awwwwwww!) So, we walked home in the pouring rain in our bare feet and splashed in all the puddles we could. At one point, we were at a busy traffic light intersection, and there was this GIANT puddle. We both jumped in it and had the people in the car at the red light hysterical. It was fun. It’s been a long time since I splashed in puddles :)
My kid told me I was cool. Yeah, who don’t know that?
I love puddles and rain
You know it sister!