Take-aways from the Farm Show

Last week our family went to the Pennsylvania Farm Show.  For those of you not familiar with this annual phenomenon, it’s hailed as the nation’s largest indoor agricultural expo.  Basically picture a really, really big building with a bunch of cows, tractors, and about 450,000 people thrown in, and you’ve got yourself the Farm Show.  For many, this is a yearly highlight.  My husband and I have been a few times in the past, but we hadn’t yet given it a whirl with our kids.  Packing up two strollers and a monstrous backpack stocked for The Apocalypse, we decided this was the year.  Hold your horses (or pigs, sheep, whatever the case may be), we were hitting the scene!

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Why yes, this is a sculpture made out
of 1,000 pounds of butter

I could load you up with cute pictures of the kids exploring all the delights and tell you about all the cool things there are to do there, but let me just take this opportunity to share some important take-aways with you (and I’m going to do the picture thing anyway).  In case you find yourself contemplating Farm Show-ing it in future years, here’s a few things to keep in mind:

1.  If obscene amounts of animal poop on your shoes and/or stroller wheels leaves you squeamish, you may want to sit this one out.  Crap happens.  At the Farm Show, it definitely happens.

2. You will eat your daily calorie intake x7 in the astoundingly amazing food court.  Plan on not eating for a week before or a week after.  You’ll thank me for this.  And it’s worth it.

3.  Awe is a abundant.

You know it’s good when you have to get up on your tip-toes to see it.

4. You will not be able to breathe.  Or move your elbows.  Perfect scenario if you are looking to tackle that nasty claustrophia.  I made excellent strides in the 5 hrs. we were there.  And then only required about 25 hrs. of therapy afterwards.

5. There is nothing cooler than an indoor carousel.

Excuse the blur. Mommy’s still working on nailing the skill of snapping a pic while waving back.

6. Instaneous desire to don a cowboy hat, wave a lasso and whoop it up at the rodeo is a given.  Dang, I love it when my inner cowgirl comes out.  Why must she hide the rest of the year?

7. It will seem inappopriate to listen to anything other than Toby Keith for the full week post-Farm Show.  Stock up on his albums before going.

8. You will have to leave with your own horse.  Or, at the very least, a pony.  They sell horse trailers there, so it’s cool.

What a beauty!
And I think my daughter is gorgeous too. 😉

9. You’ll leave exhausted, tired, mentally taking notes for what to buy in the food court next year, and counting down the days until next year’s show.

10. Despite EXTRAORDINARILY random and emphatic temper-tantrums when the sweet booth lady (who oddly happened to be your aunt in the crowd of 450,000) tried to give your son his paper chicken hat and subsequent refusals on his part to even touch it, you will go in his room to check on him later that night and find this:

I know, I’m dreaming about next year too, little guy.

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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