Family Weekend

After having to have our truck repaired (a major repair that cost a lot of money and two trips to the repair shop - once being towed there) so we could go - we went last weekend (September 11th - 14th) to the State Fair in Hutchinson. We pulled the camper down to Halstead, which is about 20 minutes from Hutchinson, and we stayed at the Spring Lake RV Resort (http://www.springlakervresort.com/). We have stayed there before and really liked it lot.

We left Thursday morning around 9 am and got to the campground around 10:30. Got the camper unhooked and set and then headed to the fair.

(Entrance Gate at the Fair)

We got to the fair grounds at around 1 pm. It was drizzling a little bit and did that most of the day. If it rained too much we just went to the inside exhibits and when it quit we went to the outdoor ones.

(This was the biggest pumpkin - it weighed 652.7 lbs)

(This was a very funny looking rabbit - it looks like a poodle to me!!)

(This is a Watusi cow)

We walked and walked and walked some more until around 9 pm that night. Hannah went to see a Puddle of Mud concert that night by herself while Mark, Sarah and I hung around walking some more.

On Friday morning we left for Wichita at around 6:30 am for Hannah's eye appointment which was at 8:15 am. This was her appt to see if she could wear contacts. It rained VERY hard all day Friday. Wichita even had some flooding and had some areas that were evacuated. It was miserable. What should have taken us around 40 minutes to drive from the campground to the Dr.'s office took us just a little over an hour.

Anyway, after they put the contacts in, it was amazing at how much more she could see with them. We had to hang out until 2:30 pm, which is when they wanted her to come back to the eye clinic to see how it went with the contacts in. We went for breakfast at IHOP and then went to places like Sam's, Walmart, the mall, Hobby Lobby, etc. When we went back to the Dr.'s office he checked her again and since her eyes had adjusted to the contacts she was able to see even better. So, Hannah is getting contacts. They had to send them back to have them tinted and they will probably be in sometime this next week. To say that she is excited is an understatement!!! LOL!!!


Friday night we played Bingo at the campground's Clubhouse. Hannah won 3 games and I won 1. Their prizes were things like notepads, a can of Pringles, candy bars, etc but we had fun doing it and it was still raining and beat being cooped up in the camper for the evening. Then we ate homemade ice cream that the campground does.


Saturday we went to the State Fair again at around 10 am and we walked and walked and walked some more. It was drizzling just a little bit when we got there but by about 11 or 11:30 am it quit and the sun came out and we had to take our rain coats and umbrellas back to the truck.

We looked at some antique tractors and watched a man do chain saw carvings.












We had concert tickets that night to see Jason Michael Carroll and Joe Nichols. It was a pretty good concert and I got some good pics.

(Jason Michael Carroll)

(Very nice close up of Joe Nichols!!)

I got an awesome shot of the moon and clouds while at the concert too. It was an absolute beautiful evening after all the rain that we had had.

We left Sunday morning to head for home. It was a fun weekend but boy were we beat. And then, of course, we had to take Hannah back to Kansas City for school.