Off To The State Fair We Go...

I must say that I am very impressed with my husband and my frugalness today!  We spent 4 1/2 hours at the California State Fair and spent $0!!!  You are probably wondering how we did that - did we stay in the parking lot the whole time?  Oh no no no.  It first started off by the girls receiving a 4 pack of tickets with parking pass from The Fish radio station.  Since the girls are under 5, they are still free so we only had to use 2 tickets and the parking pass.  Then there is a program called Read & Ride where if the kid reads 3 books and draws a picture for a summary, they get 3 free rides.  So we went and turned those in and the lady told us to go to another booth for one more free ride.  So we did.  That now made 4 rides for each of the girls.  Oh - and I forgot - on the way in to the fair, a man with his son asked if we were planning on going on any rides.  We said yes - and he handed over to us his fair card which holds the "tickets" for the rides.  He thought there was only 2 rides left but it turned out to be about 5 rides (2 for each girls - plus I went on one with them).  

Now you are probably wondering about food.... well, they ate before we came plus we packed in my bag some in-n-out burgers that Michael bought earlier.  We had bottled water that we added the flavoring powder to and wah-lah.... the girls were happy and content and we didn't spend anything.  However, we are planning on going again and I think we will actually have to come out of pocket this time!!  :-)

I think Delilah caught herself something...

This years state fair theme is Hollywood - so there are lots of props and "staging" from shows like Jurassic Park, Cars, Pirates of the Carribean, Spongebob, etc...

Delilah and Lightning McQueen

The girls and Mader

The girls looking (but not understanding - thank goodness) at all the names on a floating sphere.  This is a memorial for 9/11 and all the names of the loved ones killed have been engraved on this granite sphere sent from Germany.

This is the girls 3rd year on this bee.  I think it might be their last unless they ride it with their baby sister when she gets bigger.

More pics to come next week after returning to the state fair for some petting zoo fun, more rides, and this time - some yummy fair food!!