We like to visit the state fair every year and so on Saturday we packed the kids into the car and drove up to Salt Lake. Since we were so close by we first stopped for lunch at Red Iguana 2.
This second location is just blocks away from the original and has the same fantastic food but is less crowded and more kid-friendly. After a lunch of the best Mexican food around (Seriously, if you haven’t been, you need to go and try one of the moles!) we drove over a couple of blocks, parked for free on the little street where we usually park and went to the fair.
We looked at the folk art (check out that amazing Dear Jane quilt in the middle photo), pet the livestock, rode some rides, got E some cotton candy and a balloon animal, and left ten minutes before the little guy reached his limit and melted down. And during all of that Mimi chilled in her stroller like a champ.
The fair runs through September 18th and you can buy discount tickets at Smith’s or online.
I was telling some friends just last night about how last year, when I was nannying, we went to a mini carnival place in Central Park for the day and how the ONE RIDE I actually wanted to take the kids on was closed that day, the looooong slide you go down atop a burlap sack. Well, at least one of us got to do it!