Fun at the County Fair

One of Grayson's favorite books is about a county fair coming to Merriweather Farm and the John Deere tractors helping get ready for the event. This weekend we checked out the Cleveland County Fair and lived the story ourselves.

The small county fairgrounds are just a few miles from our house and showcase everything from carnival rides to livestock to the state's oldest farmers' market, oh and of course, TRACTORS!

The fair isn't as big or busy as the state fair which comes to OKC next week, but it's a nice and entertaining event especially for kids, and best of all it's free. So we loaded up the car, and Pappa too, and headed to the county fair.

We walked through the livestock arena and got up close and personal with cows, roosters, goats and many other animals. There's also a small petting zoo where Gray checked out a miniature horse, but he was more interested in visiting the row of tractors.

There were vintage red tractors:

There were modern green tractors:
There were huge tractors with wheels bigger than Grayson:
And it was all we could do to keep the boy off of each of them:
Luckily for us, there was some kind of local tractor club (who knew those existed here?) that was giving free barrel rides behind a tractor (aka riding lawn mower). I thought Gray might be a little scared by the whole thing since we couldn't ride with him, but once he saw the riding lawn mower pulling the barrels he hopped right in.

Here are a couple of quick videos of his trip around the parking lot.