Yes, we're riding an elephant. Yes, it was terrifying.
so yesterday marked our annual trip to the dutchess county fair, which takes place way the hell up in rhinebeck, ny. we've been going every year since my sister lyzz was but a wee child, but damned if i know exactly how many years that has actually been. its been a lot. like, maybe 20. we've only missed it one year when we had to go to some dumb baby shower. anyway, we got up there at the usual time. ate first, altho for the first time in many a year (ever) we had not pizza. i had a steak and onion sang, which was quite fantastic. we took our yearly white trash photo, perched upon a big ass tractor. then we ventured out to see the sights.
you know, the usual smelly animals. juliet loved seeing a cow pee all over the place (you seriously should have seen her face). she loved the cows, but she freaked when she saw the pigs (she's a huge charlotte's web fanatic. she was like, "it's wilbur??" and we lucked out cuz there were piglets too!) let's see...she kept asking for the camels, and everyone was like, "how the hell does she know what a camel is?" (duh, i told her) and when we found him, it was awesome. she fed him some food, and was so grossed out she wiped the camel lick all over me (she is her daddy's gal) and said, "goodbye, gentle camel" to which we all cracked up. we also fed a baby tiger. holy cow i would LOVE to have a baby tiger as a pet, they are so goddamn cute!!
there was a crazy ass robot walking around, harrasing people. we obviously saw the silly man w/the white hat and cell phone remote control thingy as he sneakily played robot controller. the guy/robot of course picked up on andy (everyone always harrasses him, its like he has a sign on him. you should see him in disney world. seriously. who else would get picked to play the beast!!??!!)so then the baby got to play with the robot, who started hitting on my mother! it was quite funny. we ate a lot, but not as much as i'd hoped. as a matter of fact, i'm pretty damn hungry right now.
oh, yes, then we saw the elephant. i don't know if you know this, but juliet is in love with dumbo. she calls him "dumbo the grape" instead of dumbo the great. she has chosen to be dumbo for halloween (too cute!) so when she saw the elephant yesterday, her head popped clear off her neck into the solar system. i was like, "nah, g, we canNOT get up there and ride the elephant. too damn scary." so she rode the ponys, which was fun. then, my mother was holding her while they watched kids float around up on the elephant. and juliet kept saying, "i want to ride the elephant. pppppplease?" in her roger rabbit way...so my mother breaks, and is like, "we're going on!" of course, becky and i had to come. dude, that shit was crazy. we were up 1 million feet. and the guy fucked up so i was in the back while my baby was in front. my mother nearly died. but then. its time to get off. i fly off, becky comes down...i'm trying to get the baby...but she's holding on...really tight...and she's like, NO MOMMY. I'M RIDING THE ELEPHANT! so i'm like, whatever child, and get her off, and we walk down the steps...and she just bursts into tears. she's hysterical, beyond comforting...she just wants to get back on the elephant. it was so funny (in a meanish way. like, she wasn't hurt...)anyway, it was a great day.
tomorrow is the engagement party. no i'm not ready and yes its going to rain. my mother is so dumb for not letting us get tents!
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