Wendy Almeida

First day at the fairgrounds

Sunday, the day the Cumberland Fair opened, was the beginning of an eventful year at the fair for us. We’re still in the thick of activities at the fairgrounds right now (float building for parade tomorrow) but just found a minute to post a recap of our first full day at the fair.

This is the series of events as they happened (for the most part, there were obvious delays before posting an update as events unfolded) posted on my Twitter account.

    Woke up with sore bruised knee. When 260 pig throws himself at board you’ve braced w/your legs and cracks board, guess that’s no surprise. 6:58 AM Sep 27th
    Pulchra sporting new earring (id tag) 10:07 AM Sep 27th Fino decided to test stability of camper this AM by jumping on bed. Knocked camper off jack stand. “No more jumping daddy!” 10:26 AM Sep 27th
    G recording fair events so far in camper 10:41 AM Sep 27th
    Brother DeeDee cozy in camper with L 10:44 AM Sep 27th
    soggy day at the fairgrounds 11:33 AM Sep 27th
    Maple syrup ice cream – yum! 11:48 AM Sep 27th
    Drying out soggy feet, pants on heater 1:29 PM Sep 27th
    Working in the 4H kitchen underway 2:09 PM Sep 27th

More kitchen volunteers 2:12 PM Sep 27th
    Power has been out at Cumberland fairgrounds for about 30min. Couple of flickers but still no electricity yet. 5:31 PM Sep 27th
    Girls, Fino had fun working in 4H kitchen today. I “worked” in pig raffle booth w/Susan while boys sold tix. They sold lots, we sold 1. 5:55 PM Sep 27th
    Power back on now! Kids reading in camper with soggy clothes hanging all around. It’s been a really wet day at fairgrounds. 5:58 PM Sep 27th
    Rain, rain, rain. That was theme for day at fair. Our shoes, coats are wet and hanging around camper to dry. Hope tomorrow is less wet. 8:00 PM Sep 27th
    Up with midnight foray to bathroom at campground. Now trying to find amusement with guy in camper next door snoring the roof off. 12:49 AM Sep 28th
    Fino didn’t realize the loud noises were from the next door camper guy. He thought it was a bull. Found my sense of humor from that. šŸ™‚ 12:52 AM Sep 28th

I have more to share but that about sums up our first day… the next day was equally eventful, but in a different way.

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