One Wild Week

This week bustling downtown Mitchell area is consumed by carnival goers for the Corn Palace Festival. I know, I know, all of you who cannot make it down here will miss out on this, but I hope you can cope until next year. Actually, our town is invaded with lots of people. I think they go to Dakotafest during the day, then hit down town at night. We made it downtown tonight to have our usual pork loin sandwich. It was pretty tasty. Also, we let Olivia do one carnival ride, the merry-go-round that merry-went-round awful fast. That dumb thing nearly threw me off. Well, it didn't help that Olivia was also screaming and pushing me away while trying to get off her horse. I finally got everything pulled together for last 6 minutes of the ride (ok, it wasn't 6 but it was a long ride, especially with a scream child). So, that wasn't a big hit with O, but the inflatables were! She loved the jumping bean area, and the inflatable slide, well, after the first time, she really enjoyed it. The first time we sent her up in her socks. She knew just what to do, she climbed the ladder as best she could (as it was slippery and steep and the little steps were pretty far apart) and she got to the top and stepped out on to the part of the slide that begins to go down and WHOOOOOP....feet went out from under her and she's on her rear end FLYING down the slide. I will never forget the look of horror on her face as she came down. It made me giggle, because she's never moved that fast in her life, and the expression on her face showed it!! When she stopped at the bottom, then it was all fun!! She couldn't get back to the ladder fast enough. The second time was a little quicker to the top as she got in front of a little girl that wanted to go up faster than Olivia, so she'd push her up the inflatable stairs. Olivia liked getting up there easier, and this time, it was on the stomach using the arms to slow her down.....she went several times on the slide, but none were quite like the first ride down!