Last Fair!

Well I’ve been tired and slacking on my blogging!  Sorry for not staying super updated lately!  That being said, we left the fair in Othello, WA and drove home!  A good long twenty something hour drive!  It was long, yet short.  Joe and I were really excited to be home and see family and friends.  I got a week off before our next fair.  My dad was able to schedule a fair in the week I was home.  It was in Pahrump, NV.  I have family there, my Aunt Jeannette and Uncle Lee, and my cousins Makayla and Caleb.  It was so great to see them!  Caleb helped us work too!  He’s in fifth grade!  Crazy!  We had both the wall and the bubbles at this fair and it did great!  The people there really enjoyed it.  My dad enjoyed working it as well.  He misses it.  Anyway, so after that fair my dad took a second set of bubbles to Las Cruces, NM and I took the other set and went to Waco, TX.  Ridiculous, because the Las Cruces changed their fair dates during the middle of the summer and I didn’t realize that so the TX and NM fair were schedule at the same time.  It was a stress, but my dad and I handled it and everything went great.  Dad said the NM was a little slow, but again he missed it and enjoyed working.  I went to TX and it was alright.  Sorry to those who love Texas, but I do not enjoy Texas.  The weather was terrible all ten days we were there.  It was stormy, rainy, windy, humid, hot, up and down left and right, all over!!  It wasn’t fun.  We had half the tent rip off the frame and then it started raining.  We were so cold we bought a little heater at walmart to stay warm.  It was just nuts.

There were positives here too.  I took Branson Anderson with me.  He did a great job!  And the fair doesn’t start til the evening, like four, five or six.  So we have time to do whatever we like!  We were able to see four movies while being there!  We saw Looper, Taken 2, Trouble with a Curve, and Hotel Translyvania.  They were all pretty good. Trouble and Hotel were probably my favorites!  We laughed really hard in Hotel, good kid movie, but also scary at some parts.  We also did some shopping, well I did some shopping.  Branson just hung out!  Haha, it was fun.  We would get pretzels at the mall too!  Best part!  We went to the gym too! I also enjoyed building relationships with the staff there and the other vendors.  I have a lot of learning experiences while being on the road.  I feel like I’ve really matured and became a better person because of it.  I can tell you that I have a fair amount of patience now!  The drive home went by pretty fast.  Branson slept most of the way.  I drove the whole way, which was about 22 hrs. I had to pull over at one point to sleep for ten minutes to recuperate.  

Oh, funny story!  So, we took down Saturday night after the fair was over.  There was a major storm coming and I didn’t want the tent ruined so we hustled and took everything down.  Well, I forgot to buy a squeegee thing for the pool to suck the water out and make it clean.  So the pool was pretty much empty, some water and dirt.  I told Branson to watch it so it didn’t blow away or anything while I ran to the store to buy a squeegee.  When I came back the pool was completely flipped over!!  Branson says, “I’m sorry Blythe, you told me to do one thing and I couldn’t do it.”  I was laughing so hard.  He then said, “I did what you asked.  I started to suck up the rest of the water and a gust of wind came and picked the pool up, while I was in it, and it flipped on top of me.  I had to crawl out of the pool.  It was so scary!  Like a giant blue mousetrap snapping down on me!  I thought I was dead!”  Ohhh, I laughed so hard!!  I could only picture him trying to run away but having nowhere to go! Hilarious!!  Hopefully you can all imagine this.  Anyways, it was a good trip.  I am now in Ridgecrest, CA.  This is a decent fair.  I have some time to hang out and have fun.  From my facebook post the other day I posted a quote from a movie Pitch Perfect.  The boy says, “I think I have the feeling we should kiss.” The girl says, “Well, I sometimes think I have the feeling of doing crystal meth, but then I think, hmmmm…better not.”  Oh man, funny movie!  So that’s what I’ve done so far in Ridgecrest, CA!  Watched Pitch Perfect, twice.  Haha!  It makes me happy and smile!  Well wish me luck!  Last fair of the season!  Very exciting!  Then more time with family!! I love them!  Have a great weekend everybody!