Every year the San Diego County Fair offers all kinds of ways to get discounts on Fair admission. I’ve learned to check the website well in advance so I can figure out the least expensive day to go.

Adult admission tickets are regular price $13.00

Kids 6 – 12 are $7.00

Kids 5 and under are Free

But…

Our local grocery store was selling $3 tickets to the Fair for the first Tuesday, which also happened to be a day when Kids Get in FREE, so our family of 5 got in the gate for $6 instead of $33.00.

And once you’re inside there are so many things to see and do for FREE.

One of our favorite things to go and see at the Fair is the farm animals.

We saw cows. Lots of big, beautiful, lovely cows.

These two cows were HUGE! Prize winning cows I guess, because they were in a special pen in the middle of the arena. Just look at the size of that cow’s head compared to the person walking up next to them. Huge… just HUGE!

And this picture just doesn’t do this cow justice. I wish I had a better shot of her next to some cows standing up. She is an amazingly tall cow. Her legs just seemed about a foot longer than any of the others and she seemed to tower above the rest.

My husband called her “Cow-be Bryant.” We all laughed. We’re corny that way. Maybe that’s why we like farm animals so much… cuz we’re “corny”. Get it? I’ll stop.

We saw lots of pretty little sheep and they were “bah-ing” and “bah-ing” all over the place. It was really funny to listen to them. We got to pet them too. Well… I got to pet them. Dad was a bit nervous about letting the little ones approach the sheep. I guess they can be kind of unpredictable. They were nice to me though. No incidents with the sheep to speak of.

And there were these sweet piggies.

Pardon the picture of the hind quarters. I just thought they were so cute cuddled up sleeping together. It looks like possibly a mommy and her baby, but I don’t know for sure. I didn’t speak with them, I just took a picture… of their hind quarters.

That was my kids favorite part about these two. They giggled their little heads off staring at pig bums. See… the fair can be fun and educational.

And then there were the hens and roosters.

Oh my!

I could have spent hours just looking at and photographing the hens and the roosters.

You see I have this thing for chickens lately. I’m obsessed. I want some.

No roosters, just some beautiful, egg laying hens.

Do you know why in the grocery store, some eggs are brown and others are white?

Do you know?

Do you?

I do.

White eggs come from white hens and brown eggs come from brown or red hens.

Did you know there are also hens that lay blue eggs and hens that lay green eggs?

I want one that lays green eggs.

Then we could have green eggs and ham!

If I had my way I would build some chickens a home in our backyard like this.

And I would buy little baby chicks just like this.

My aunt, you know the one who is the expert gardener and answers the gardening crisis hotline… she is getting chicks.

I’ll just have to go and visit her’s until I achieve my dream of having some of my very own.

Look at this beauty!

Wow!

Incredible.

Picture perfect.

And look at this one!

I didn’t know a chicken like this even existed before I came to the Fair. Do you see her beak peeking out of all those feathers? You couldn’t see her eyes anywhere. She was like the sheep dog of chickens. There were several more strange and beautiful chickens there that I wanted to take pictures of, but the kids and my hubby were like, “Enough with the chickens already. Let’s find some rides.”

I obliged them.

I’ll see you next year chickens, and I’ll stay a little longer then.

There were llamas.

There was even an elephant giving rides.

But man…

I miss those chickens.

2 Responses to “Fair Animals”