It was about 40 minutes away and the drive was beautiful. I'm still not used to all of the trees out here. At the fair there was free food (hot dogs, chips, popcorn, drinks, and cotton candy), face painting, balloon animals, and a bunch of booths where people kept giving us free things.
First we went to get Angelique's face painted. There was a sign showing all of the options. I suggested some of the nice things like butterflies, flowers, etc, but Gigi saw a pig and she was all about becoming a little pig. It turned out quite cute though :)
Here she is getting her face painted. She held still the whole time! I was amazed.
Here's my little piggy :) She does a really good piggy impression now complete with a few oink oinks.
We got some food and went to all of the booths. She met Ben Franklin, who let her spin a wheel, where she won a coloring book and crayons.
She also met the little mermaid, who made her a special princess crown, and Cinderella (well, Cinderella for the second time :) ) She was in awe!
We went to the fireman booth where they gave her a cool hat. Outside the fair there was an ambulance and firetruck to look through, but we ran out of time.
The Philadelphia zoo and the Franklin institute of science both did presentations. Angelique saw a chinchilla, a dove and an armadillo.
She got a balloon animal, well 3 actually, the guy kept asking her what else she wanted, so she got 2 penguins and a huge flower.
To top it off, Elmo, from Sesame Place (it's a great attraction park here with all of the sesame street characters) made a special appearance. She was thrilled!!
At one of the booths they gave us 3 coupons for free water ices from Rita's (water ice is essentially a really good snow cone), but the catch was that it was only good at 1 location, which happened to be around the corner from the fair. Since we figured we wouldn't want to drive 40 minutes just to get a free snow cone we decided to go. Gigi chose Chocolate and Candy and I both chose Mango. YUMMY!
Gigi fell asleep in the car, but was only able to sleep for about 15 minutes before we got home. When we got inside she was too excited to tell her daddy about her day to sleep, so needless to say she was wired the rest of the night.
While I made dinner David and Gigi played fireman rescue, essentially they would take turns hiding and say help me, help me and the other person would wear the fireman hat and find the one hiding. It was TOO funny seeing David running around in a kid's fireman hat.
To be honest I think he had more fun playing the game than Gigi :)
It was my first real outing since I have moved here and I have to say if all of their free attractions are like this one it is a pretty awesome place to live :)
Oh and I guess I should put a plug in for the senator- Go Senator Chuck McIlhinney!!!
6 comments:
What a wonderful day! I can't believe that you already blogged it.
So much fun...how nice to get to do something that cool. I loved Gigi getting married! Such precious moments...
You guys looks like your having a great time. I LOVE the piggie. I'm impressed that she did sit still.
That painted face is so funny!!! I love the picture with Elmo. I realize that it is made for kids, but Sesame Place is right there on the top of my list of places I want to go see out there. Gigi is growing up so fast.
I'm all about the pig paint. When I was in 4th or 5th grade, I played the lead male roll in Charlottes Web: Wilbur the Pig. I had pink pajamas, a curly tail, and a pink pigs mask. For the first half of the show I just oink on all fours, but then I had my big solo ("I can talk") which allowed me to stand and show my theatrical prowess. Oh the memories.
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It sounds like you're having so much fun! We went to an amazing free ice cream all-you-can-eat thing in Philly too. I really like that city. You guys must be the funnest parents. I guess my life is just boring!
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