A Little Back Patting

David and I went to the fair yesterday. He wanted to go because he wouldn't be able to go with us tomorrow because he has to work.

Anyway, I really didn't want to go for the simple reason that Friday is a gym day for us and I really didn't want to drive all the way up to Des Moines. David really wanted to go because we couldn't go on Thursday because of our neighbor and others, two Amish boys he had helping him and the truck driver to drive the grain to market, being there to empty out our grain bin that he uses to store his soy beans. In hindsight, we really could have still gone and as it turned out, I'm glad we ended up going. Dave couldn't go with us because he had to go into the office both days. But to talk me into it, David made the suggestion that why don't we take our gym stuff with us and if we felt like it, stop at the gym on the way home, since we could go a way where we would go right past it, so we did that.

The Amish horse and buggy in our yard as seen through our kitchen window. I didn't want them catching me taking a picture of it since I didn't know how they would react. We also set out water and hay for the horse. I told them we would put the water out, but when I went to feed our ponies, I gave their horse some hay as well. They thanked me as they were leaving.

I honestly thought that after all the walking we did, which now that I think about it, wasn't really all that much compared to what it could have been if we had gone around to see everything we could have. But, we still walked around a good ways and since we were parked way up at the end of the parking lot, walked quite a ways to get back to the car going up hill the whole way. That is the truth too, not like the old cliche about having to walk to school in snowstorms while going up hill the whole way.☺ When we got back to the car, I also realized that I forgot to put the sun shade up so that even though it was only 73° outside, the car was still hot inside.

Even after that though, we still stopped at the gym and did our workouts. The gym is open 24 hours, so that  fit in very well. I was happy because we still were able to get in our day at the gym, plus some added exercise in to boot. When we got home, we were tired, but also happy from having a good day at the fair and gym.