Utah County Fair

 Zac took the kids to the Utah County Fair on Thursday to check out their Lego display.  While he was there, a lady told him about the car show that they were having from 3pm-9pm Friday night.  I was able to get off work early, and we headed down in the mustang.

 We got there about 2:30 pm and was able to get it registered for the show.  We had several hours to kill.  We really should have brought 2 cars so I could take the kids back early.

 Zac wanted to socialize with all the car folk, so I took the kids around the fairgrounds.  They had these balls that would float on water.  The kids had so much fun in them.  Lily would start rolling in them.  They were so fun to watch.

 

 

 

 After the water balls, we went to the reptile show. 

 They called Aubrey on the stage!  She was so excited.  They let her hold a black ninja snake.

 She was a little unsure of the snake. 

 They only called up 3 kids out of the audience.  She was really lucky they called on her.

 After the show we checked up on Zac.  Still talking to all the car folk.

 The kids got bored of that really fast so I took them on a couple rides.  Lily didn't quite understand that she needed to get into a potato sack.  She immediately took off down the slide.

 She loved it and wanted to go again and again.

 The other kids had fun racing each other.

 This was another slide/jungle jim.

 I gave in, and let Jennifer and Lily go on a ride.

 

 Then we headed to the petting zoo.  They were able to hold a bunny and a baby goat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We still had a couple hours until it was time to go.  Zac wanted to stay and wait for the awards.  He had won a tumbler cup earlier in the day in the raffle.  I took the kids to the rodeo.  They had fun for the first hour, but grew tired of it.

 We headed back to see Zac.  They had these little tractors set out.  Lily figured out how to turn it on!  We had to run over and stop her before she pressed the gas.

 It was finally award time.  They did one last raffle drawing and Zac won the grand prize!  He won a pancake air compressor.  He was so excited.  Everyone around us started laughing as he tried to put it in the trunk.  It didn't fit!  We had to open the box and disassemble it so that it would fit.

 There were about 80 cars in the show.  They gave out awards to the top 10 cars, and gift cards to the Best in Show.  They did the top 10 cars first.  They called out Zac's name 2nd!  We were so shocked!  The kids started cheering, they couldn't believe we could actually take one of those trophies home.  Not bad for Zac's first car show.

We were almost home on the freeway when Zac's alternator went out on the mustang.  It completely shut off - while we were on the freeway!  He had to coast it to the side, then get out and push.  It was so dark outside and busy.  It was about 10pm, and we were only 1 exit away from home.  We called Devin, and he left a recording session early to come help us.  Devin came and got Zac and took him home.  Zac took the battery out of the van and came back and put it in the mustang.  It started up and we finally made it home around 11:30pm.  While Zac went with Devin, I stayed with the kids in the mustang.  We had 2 UHP troopers pull over to see what was going on.  Jennifer thought they were stopping so they could see Zac's trophy.