The Searle's Stories

This week is fair week. Everything gets put on hold while this annual event takes place. Kids work hard all summer long on their 4H projects whether it's raising turkeys, goats, or cows or growing sugar beets. Everyone submits some kind of art or craft, I saw quite a few with handfuls each. People tAke time off of work to work at various booths, mostly the food ones.

The main reasons for the fair are the homemade maple bars, Many different food booths, it is a sicial gathering like you have never seen and the rodeo. Tuesday night Cody and I were able to have some time alone without miss E and it was nice. Everyone needs some alone time every now and then with their spouse. We ate delicious fajitas and an amazing Hawaiian smoothie, piña colada of course. We enjoyed looking at all the different exhibits and paintings. We even bought a dozen maple bars but sadly we had to share them.

Wednesday we took little E, grabbed food and headed straight for the team sorting event. That was almost better than the rodeo and to make it even better it was free! I got to see my friend Kayla ride an cheer her on. Ellie loved just being outside. After Kayla's turn we walked around the fair and found a lot of familiar faces. The funniest thing was at one point we were carrying the babies while the boys pushed empty strollers. I wish I had a picture of those two guys trying to look tough with empty strollers and diaper bags shoved under the seats.

The best part about the fair this year was what happened as we were walking onto the grounds. There were cars stopped at the red light and as the light turned green the cars started to slowly creep along. Apparently it wasn't fast enough for one particular car though. The third car back must not have been paying attention and ran right into the car in front of it. It wasn't a hard hit and there wasn't any damage that we could see. The two cars sat there not moving for a few minutes and no one was getting out. The third car started backing up and we knew it was not a smart move. A car had been slowly approaching right behind this car as it was backing up. The approaching car stops and lays on its horn, it had no where to go, as the car that had hit the one in front of it backed into this poor old man. There was such a loud crunching sound as the hood of the car scrunched up that police from the fair were running right for the road.

We were dying laughing. Why would you back up on a main road? Why would you not just stay put? But most of all why would you not pay extra attention to NOT hit any one else? Two days later and I am still laughing!