Final Weekend of Summer (Going to the Fair)

It's the final weekend before school starts. It's been a GOOD summer. Lots of road trip adventures, hikes, beaches, pool time, airplane rides and friends. My decreased work schedule this year has given us lots of opportunities to just be at home too---it's been good.

We spent our last weekday at the Washington State Fair with Isaac's auntie & cousins. He loves even the mention of them so spending an entire day together fed his heart deeply. 

My adventure seeking son is a roller coaster boy. His mother is not...but she'll do just about anything to see her boy smile...so:

I had a headache for 14 hours afterwards, but he'll never know. He got to sit in the front of the kiddy roller coaster and raise his hands and hoot & holler with his mom at the Fair. That's a pretty solid memory to have for a little boy. 

My must-do this year was an exhibit on the history Camp Harmony--the Japanese Internment Camp that had been on the site of very fairgrounds we were walking around. Sadly, I personally know people that were interned here when it happened. This ugly piece of US history happened just 3 miles from my house--the house that I am raising my immigrant Asian son. Those last four words deeply impacted how I took in his exhibit:

 A replica of one of the barracks---a barely converted horse stall:

Isaac participating in the exhibit--making his own straw pillow then taking it to lay on a straw bed in one of the barracks.  He said it the bed was 'owie'. It sure was buddy. It sure was. 

Riding the gondola:

  Fair food!

The Fair was a good way to end our summer. The rest of this weekend will be lunch boxes and back packs and freezer meals and going to be early for Monday morning comes quickly...