Field Trip to the Fair

Isabella's 1st grade class went to the Santa Cruz County Fair last Friday for a field trip. I really wanted to take Luke and was happy to hear that my Friday plans got canceled. So Luke and I jumped in the car and hooked up with Bella's group of 5 kids and 2 parents.


No offense to the two brave dad's who volunteered to chaperoon the 5 kids. However, let me tell you something... You don't bring them to the tables with hats, bags, pencils and loads of crap for the first activity! I mean isn't that common sense? Do they not know?!! I just spent 10 minutes consolidating my own camera, purse, and lunch to be handsfree all day (to grab Luke).

So of course, we are headed to the next activity and I get two, "mom will you hold these please?" "Uh, NO. If you want your hat you hold on to it." I take the bags and buckle them to my backpack. Sigh.

My favorite was hearing, not once, but twice from working parents who took the day off, "This is harder than work!" Yeah, puff puff.... It's my full time job. I know mom's rock. So I'm proud to be one! ;)


After Luke's last couple of Houdini acts at our last big venues (Mall and Boardwalk) ... I did a little tattoo stating:

IF LOST:
CALL JULIE
xxx xxx xxxx

I penned it on his right arm and right leg. It was that or the monkey leash, which I'm still building confidence in using as it gets less rave reviews than the tattooing.





Yeah! Pig Racing. Have you ever seen such a thing?! It was halarious. My favorite part was when they were announcing the names of the competetors, such as SpiderHam. I could see Bella from afar (she's the red hat on the mid-left standing up in the crowd). Anyway, they announce... "In the red, we have, Strawberry." In which Bella turns to her friend and matter of factly shakes her head with confidence, "I'm going for Strawberry."