Mannington Fair with a blast from the Past at the end

Here we go the big, bad, the second largest fair in the state...the Mannington Fair. This first picture is from the parade Miranda and Braylon got to go on the Hospice float...(Mir let me know if Mark sent you the pictures or if you still need them) The parade is always tons of fun, especially when you know folks in it!
So a huge disappointment was that again this year the only thing the Lydia could ride was the Merry Go Round. They would not even let her ride things with us like the ferris wheel. This was a big disappointment because she rode so many rides at the park in Ocean City.

Here is Daddy and Lydia this year and here is Daddy and Lydia last year.

Mommy found the same horse from last year with the roses on it!

and as promised a huge blast from the past....TA DA... my mommy and me on a merry go round. I am not sure where the picture if from. It has August 1980 on the back so it is possible it is from the Mannington Fair..but for some reason I am thinking my mom said it was from a amusement park or something..she will have to post and tell us. But I would have been 23 months old and Lydia is 18 months old so pretty close in age. And you can see..she really does not look like me at all....

So super funny fair story....Those of you who don't know the fair is split between two places in a way. The main rides are on the pop warner football field. Then you walk through the public pool parking lot, cross a little foot bridge and you are on the side with the food and animals. So we were leaving the rides to go and get some food. We were in the parking lot where WVAQ (our local radio station) had their boom box set up blasting some hip hop something. ( I love hip hop so no disrespect, I just really did not know who it was) Lydia pulls her hand away from Nonni and starts busting a move...I mean REALLY busting a move. I have never seen my child get into dancing like that night. She blew all her MJ dancing out of the water. She started some new arm moves and swinging her tush like there was no tomorrow. People were stopping and watching her...I am not kidding or exaggerating in the least. It was the funniest and cutest thing I have ever witnessed. We had to bribe her with lemonade to get her to stop and walk to the other side. And even then, she would get taken over by the groove and start up again. Eventually Nonni just had to pick her up and carry her...I wish you could have seen it.