I gave up on the slide show.. I had a lot of really fun pictures of us at the fair to share with you but it's not going to happen today so I will just share these three. I think I need John's password. We had a lot of fun at the fair. Fryburg is about an hour north/west of our house. It is very near the Maine/New Hampshire boarder. It is the biggest fair in Maine (Maine has a lot of fairs). Grace talked about riding the "colorful horses that go around" the whole way there so we made sure she got to. Funny thing is those were the only horses she would go near. She is obsessed with everything horse except the real thing. She wouldn't even go near the "little horse"
in the bottom pictures. Elsie and Ben loved all the animals but Elsie was especially in love with those baby chicks. Ben would have bought them all if he had the money and a place to keep them. We ate some good fattening fair food, and the weather was perfect!
We went apple picking yesterday.. We do this every year at a orchard in Cornish Maine. There are a lot of orchards around (probably at least 20 within an hour of our home). Apple picking is a big thing around here and most families try to get out and schools do field trips. Anyway, we have lots of fun and we picked almost 3 full bushels this year so it is time to start drying and freezing them. Thomas found the biggest apple this year it is always a thrill to beat dad in the biggest apple contest. We all ate our fill of apples while walking through the orchard. This is the one of the best places to get apples because the trees are loaded all the way to the ground. We don't have to pick anyone up to reach Elsie could pick all she wanted to. The weather was perfect and we even go a few cute family pictures. After we were finished we stopped and bought vanilla ice cream and made apple dumplings the minute we got home. The girls were especially thrilled because they got to stay up past their bedtime to eat the apple dumplings. Oh Baby were they good.
