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This past weekend we went to the Topsfield Fair here in Massachusetts. I haven't been in years. I think the last time we went either Matt was an infant or he wasn't even born. Either way we had a blast.

We got in for free by donating old cell phones to the "Hope Line". The Hope Line is a program that I believe our phone company puts on that takes old and new cell phones, refurbishes them and then gives them to women who are or were victims of domestic violence. I very worthy cause and a good way to get the dusty phones out of my house.

We ended up spending over 6 hours at the fair. (We all slept very well that night). Matt and I got to ride an Elephant named Beula. I am in the way back, naturally, and Matt is right in front of me with the red cap on.

Last year, Matt and I did a lapbook on Elephants and when he saw Beula, he just had to ride her. He was telling the lady that walked Beula around all about how this was an Asian elephant and the other things he learned. I had no clue he still remembered! Her skin is very tough and is covered in these hairs that are very corse. Kind of reminded me of the bristles to a scrub brush.

When we were over near the horse arena, we had to wach the horse judging because my daughter loves horses, there were tons of tractors and John Deer stuff. Matt was in little boy heaven! Here he is "driving" a loader.

I had to kick off some other older boys so that I could get this picture. They ended up getting so rough that Matt had to walk away in tears practically. So then we moved on to the John Deer lawn mowers. Now he was all smiles again. I just love how he poses for these pictures. LOL

We saw this totally awsome swing set that was made and painted to look just like a loader. When my husband asked how much it cost, (thinking if it wasn't too much we could save and get one for Matt) we almost had a heart attack. They wanted $25,000.00 for it!!! We can buy a real one for that much and turn it into a swing set. I'll admit that lots of labor went into making it and the company said it was made out of mahogany but it was painted so I don't see why they used such a beautiful wood.

Ride time! Man we spent a ton of money on tide tickets. Most of the rides took 4 tickets and each ticket cost 1.00 each! Of course I didn't get any pictures of Chantelle on the rides. Steve was over at the big kid rides with her and I was with Matt at the little kid rides. Here is Matt riding a truck, what else.