Adams County Fair

Larry and I live in Westminster, CO, which is part of Adams County. The annual Adams Country Fair is taking place right now and this is the last weekend for this season. Larry and I decided to go pay a visit. We hadn’t been in years. It was a fun adventure and we both had a good time playing with and petting all the animals. We got there at kind of the in between time – the animal judging was done for the day and the night crowd hadn’t yet arrived. It was starting to get busy right when we left. We think we went at the perfect time.

The fair had all the things you would expect at a county fair – rides, games, music, souvenir kiosks, shows and entertainment, and of course, lots and lots of farm animals.

This was the course they were holding the pig races earlier in the day.

The band, the Velvet Daydreamers, was pretty good. They played a lot of old rock and Southern rock, with influences from The Doors to 38 Special, and many more.

We did NOT eat any of the fair food, but I just had to take some pictures. The portions are HUGE! OMG!!!!

If you wanted to, you could even try your skills on the mechanical bull. It was a hard pass for both of us. 🙂

Larry and I walked all around and saw everything, but we were there mostly to visit and play with the animals. There were lots of goats and sheep, as well as cows, bulls, and horses, and even some alpacas too.

This bull was a grand champion winner.

There were even a few Texas Longhorns, and man, their horns were LONG too.

There were horses, Clydesdale horses and ponies too.

There were a lot of 4H kids there too, and they were proudly showing off their animals. 4-H is a youth development organization with a focus on hands-on learning and leadership, operating as part of the Colorado State University Extension. In Colorado, it reaches over 110,000 youth annually, providing them with opportunities to develop into confident, independent, and compassionate leaders. 4-H’s core principle is “learning by doing,” with programs covering areas like agriculture, science, health, and citizenship.

Larry and I had so much fun in the petting pens. We were playing with the goats, sheep and alpacas. They loved anyone and everyone who had food for them.

And you can’t have farm animals with out geese and chickens.

It was a fun evening. We had a real good time. It was something different for both of us, since it had been many, many years since we last went to a county fair. We were so glad we did too. After we left the fair, we went out to dinner. It was a fun date night. 🙂

Have fun no matter what you do. Make every event a fun event if you can. Life is short. Enjoy it while you can. 🙂