A recent visit to the Big E, Eastern States Exposition, gave our 21st century urban children the opportunity to experience a good old fashioned country fair. We visited farm stands, tasted cream puffs, rode on an elephant, saw real farm animals (I know to some that may sound mundane), rode on real farm tractors and went on as many spinning ferris wheels and roller coasters as possible. Oh..and saw the most amazing one ring circus in which each act really was death defying and heart stopping. 
Bounce and Quantum may now believe that goats and camels reside happily side-by-side on most American farms.
Riding on an elephant is not nearly as easy as one would imagine when reading the Arabian Nights.
Watching piglets nurse and eggs hatch was endlessly fascinating to our urban-suburban group, most of whom are only familiar with cats and dogs and assume all pigs and spiders are friends, like Wilbur and Charlotte.
Of course nothing can compare with chasing one another through nets and tubes 100 feet above the ground.
Except, perhaps, riding high on a swing hundreds of feet above the earth.
Crazy Mouse at dusk: this was everyone’s favorite ride.
It was a beautiful day, made even more magical by sunset. This was certainly a “naturally inspiring” lesson in our ongoing study of early American History. Don’t worry, another day will be filled with proper lessons, notes and quizzes. But today will remain in all our memories as a tour of old-fashioned Americana, and of good plain fun, along the scale of Wilbur and Charlotte’s country fair.
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