Kansas, Hutchison - Sunday, September 14, 2014 - Kansas State Fair

I’ve not posted for the last week, we’ve been busy just not too much blog worthy.  I’ve been to see granddaughter Cheyanne at gymnastics class.  I sat in with grandson Wyatt and Cheyanne while they took piano lessons.   Cheyanne is just beginning and Wyatt is getting quite good.  We’ve had a couple of cookouts and son David and the grandkids joined us for breakfast on Saturday morning.

On Sunday we headed out with David and the kids, grandson Tyler and his girlfriend Rachel to the Kansas State Fair in Hutchison, about an hour away.

This is the group as we arrived at the fair.

 

 

This one Rachel took so I would be in the picture.  I think the picture looked much better with her in it J 

 

 

Here we are in search of food.

 

 

After eating we all went in different directions for a while.  Greg and I chose to see the livestock exhibits.  They have really nice livestock barns here.  This longhorn was my favorite.

 

On our way to see the butter sculpture we walked through the fruit and vegetable displays.

 

A butter sculpture has been at the Kansas State Fair since 1983.  It takes 800 to 1400 pounds of unsalted butter and about 85 hours to complete a sculpture.  The butter is reused for four years, it is stored in a local freezer between fairs.  It is kept in in refrigerated display case during the fair which makes it hard to photograph, but I guess otherwise there would just be a butter puddle.

 

 

The truck and tractor pulls were held during the afternoon so we decided to watch for a while.

However, the rides held more appeal for Wyatt and Cheyanne

Even with all of the kids running through this fun house I managed to get Wyatt and Cheyanne (background) in the same picture.

Wyatt waited his turn on the giant ferris wheel.

Cheyanne was excited about the swings.

 

 

 

I don’t remember the name of this ride but I managed to get a good picture of Wyatt and Cheyanne so I wanted to include it.

 

 

Cheyanne went on this ride three times.  It was a ride intended for kids so it wasn’t as aggressive as the adult version.  It took the riders up and then dropped them quickly.  She soon realized that if she watched it reach the top she would know when the drop was going to happen.

 

 

 

They talked Dad into going on the final ride of the day.