On Sunday, we had plans to take the boys to the Family Fun day at the Fall Festival. We had heard it was a great day to do this for the shorter rides and daylight hours. Unfortunately, Connor woke up with a fever that day and we had to postpone our Fall Festival Trip. He was more upset by that and missing his friend Jesse then the fact that he was also going to miss a couple days of school. Even though his fever broke on Sunday, we decided to keep him home a couple days to make sure nothing further developed and in case he was contagious.
We decided to make the trip down there Wednesday night instead and we found out we could meet up with his friend, Carac and his parents. Carac and Connor started Montessori together and are in the same class, so they have become good buddies over the last year. I used to work with Carac's dad and have really enjoyed getting to know his mom, so spending the evening with them was a lot of fun and I hope we can do it again! We even lucked out in being able to park at their house which was just a few blocks from the Fall Fest.
After pulling the boys away from all of Carac's neat toys (definitely need to arrange a play date), we arrived to find out that it was going to be a busy night with long lines. With some reservation, we decided to go ahead and purchase the armbands for unlimited rides since it seemed like we ran through the tickets very quickly last year. We ventured to the ride area to learn that most of the rides were restricted to 42" (which I did not remember being the case last year). We lead the boys to the back area where the ride lines were shorter and we were able to avoid the restrictions for Brady.
Since our main goal was for the boys to have fun riding rides, the parents traded off to go get food. We sent the dads to get food first while we stayed with the boys in line and they brought the boys back some pronto pups that they ate in between rides. The boys had a blast and rode several rides in the course of a couple hours and I think we got our money's worth (for armbands vs. tickets).
Since it was getting late and we wanted to venture a little further down the food booths, we led the boys out of the ride area with the promise of a dessert item. Unfortunately, it was getting late and some of the booths were selling out for the night. We finally ended up with some Elephant Toes for the boys to share and some Apple Cider.
While it was a late night for everyone, it seemed to go rather well with no major meltdowns and fights avoided. You could tell the boys were getting tired towards the end, but I think they still had a great time and were well behaved. I am so glad we met the Johnsons down there and hope we can do that again next year!
Click here for my friend's posting about our trip together to the Fall Festival
Click here if you are curious about last year's trip to the Fall Festival
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