Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Trip to Elkhart County Fair


Friday last week, we all piled into the truck at 7am for a short trip to Indiana.  It was a four hour drive and I am proud to report we made the trip with no stops!  Fiona was fantastic.  She did not cry once.  She was awake and played with her toys, laughed at Toben, or ate Cheerios.  When she got tired she yawned and yawned and just shut her eyes.  Its as if she just figured out that crying in the car seat doesn't get her anywhere.  What a relief.

Zach arranged for us to have stay at the Holiday Inn Express in Goshen, IN.  We had a king size bed in the jacuzzi suite.  It was great!  Toben and Fiona both liked the jacuzzi.  "I want to get in the ca-coosie,' Toben would say.  Toben liked the workout room and little restaurant area, but Toben loved swimming in the pool with Zach the best at the hotel.
(That and the all-you-can drink free coffee area and free mint trays lying about the lobby)
On Saturday, we had breakfast together and went to the fair.  This was the first time Toben was able to see a DeLaval VMS.  He was amazed with it and just loved to watch it work.  The other stop he enjoyed was, yes, you guessed it, the John Deere tractor set up.  

Plenty of animals to see at the county fair.  We saw two miniature horses, donkeys, and a sow and her 11 piglets.





I found a secluded section of a ribbon winners show room to nurse Fiona.  It was full of crafts, jam, prize winning baked goods, pictures, and quilts.  The quilts we not in the running with the PA shows, but hey they were alright for a county fair I suppose.  Maybe one of all the quilts was quilted by hand.  I'm a bit off point.


I nursed her in this room away from everyone.  When we were about to leave the fair, we pasted by a bus transporting people to and from parking.  The male announcer came on the bus speaker and said something to the effect of  'attention nursing mothers: We have designated places...etc,"  I didn't catch the whole message, but I thought, well isn't that nice.  While other parts of our country are 'hush hush' about boobs feeding babies, or making a big stink about a mother nursing in a public store, this fair was incredibly supportive.  Proactively supportive of nursing mothers.  It was refreshing.

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