Indiana State Fair

Today we spent the day at the Indiana State Fair with our new friends from Ukraine. They are the ones with a bald and beautiful 3 year old girl who has 5 cancerous brain tumors that recurred after an earlier removal in Israel. She loves boys in general and our boys adore her. It’s funny since she speaks Russian and Ukrainian and our boys speak English and German, but somehow they manage to communicate just fine. Andy got his fill of fair food and the kids got to go on rides.  Levi was terrified by a couple of the rides he went on with Jude.  Jude, on the other hand, loved every ride, which I’m thrilled about.  I always wanted a kid who wasn’t afraid of any ride so he could accompany me (Andy is a pilot for for some crazy reason doesn’t do rides). I can’t wait to take Jude to Valleyfair someday and go from one rollercoaster to the next. To my disappointment, we missed the Monster Truck Rally and the DNR catch and release fishing, which would have easily been the highlights of the fair for me. I’d put the Indiana State Fair behind the Ohio, Arizona and Minnesota State Fairs in a coolness contest.