Anthem Carnival

This weekend was

Which means the Carnival was in town!

All sports were cancelled that day due to the event.

So we had a "free" Saturday!

I've learned in years past that the rides are ridiculously expensive!!

So I told the kids if they did all their chores in the morning

then we could go to the carnival during wristband hours in the afternoon.

Needless to say I've never seen them (or I should say Anden) so helpful! lol

We got everything done and at 1pm we were at the Ticket Booth buying our wristbands!

I opted to say some money and not buy myself a band.

I quickly learned that most rides still required an adult!

Go figure.

Another sneaky way the Carnies have to swindle you out of more money!

Luckly we ran into our friend Cameron and he gladly volunteered

to be the designated adult (he's 12) for the afternoon! :)

Cameron & Anden hit all the scary rides.

I was a tad jealous.

I love rides!!

Taylee was more than jealous.

She does too

but she wasn't tall enough.

It's hard only being 42 inches! 

So while Anden hit up all the "cool rides"

Taylee went on the "baby rides".

I assured her that most kids her height aren't crazy enough to go on the "cool rides" anyway!

She glared at me! lol

The toothless Carnie let me sneak onto the Ferris Wheel!

We had 3 hours for wristband time and we made the most of every minute!

We decided to hit the huge high fast swings last.

As we were waiting in line to go next,

the ride ended and a poor kid still in his chair was puking his guts out everywhere.

Yummy.

So there we stood and watched the worker throw buckets of water 

all over the ground and the swing chairs.

That's it.  No sanitizer or cleaner. Just water.

Then he started letting kids on and told them which seats to take.

I was juggling getting Taylee on a different ride while making sure the boys were ok.

I could easily do the math and see that Anden & Cameron were going to end up in the puke seats.

He directed them to those chairs.

I started running over to stop that.

Um heck no!  That's disgusting! lol

Luckily Cameron spoke up and the worker put them in the chairs behind it.

And luckily he wised up and realized not to put anyone in those chairs for now.

Have fun boys!

As the puke remnants swing back in your face.

Awesome.

I told Taylee how lucky she was to ride the baby rides

where kids don't puke on them!

As we were walking out the Carnie was splashing another bucket of water on the ground.

Looks like another kid bit the dust on that ride!

It was a Great Vomit Day at the Carnival! ;-)

Oh and on the way out I was shockingly humbled to realize

that I'm clearly in the wrong profession.

Because these Carnies are ballers.

Lined up by the entrance were pimped out

Mercedes,

Cadillac CTS,

Porsche,

Cadillac Escalade,

Yukon XL.

Hhmm maybe they are accepting applications?

If only I had missing rotted teeth.