Putting Our Lives in the Hands of Carnies

Saturday we went to the Hydroplane races in Silverdale. Unfortunately due to the weather (high winds, and later rain) the hydros never even made it in the water. We did, however, throw all caution to the wind and handed our children over to the grinning, toothless carnies and their rickety death trap rides. (I'm sorry - that's rude. One of the carnies had a few teeth)




Check out SBK's grin as she goes on her first motorcycle ride (And her last, says Mark!)

Cotton candy was the snack of choice, of course. Nobody could determine which was better - the pink or the blue. It's all good!




For ride #2, Malia chose "The Octopus". It was a very brave choice.. perhaps too brave. A few times around and I had to ask them to stop the ride so a very shaken Malia could get off.

And then we played at the park for awhile before the rains hit. (Hard to believe that it was raining sideways 20 minutes after these picture!)

Last week when we went to the park, Malia went across the monkey bars 30 times and came home with blisters on both hands. She toned it down to 6 crossings this time.

We ended the day with a carnival theme dinner at home: corn dogs, nachos, and root beer floats. There will be time for veggies and hummus tomorrow.