Wonderful Mid-West Weekend

After a designated relaxation day on Friday, we were ready for more adventures on Saturday. We started the morning by riding our bikes across town (a whopping 1 mile) to the Farmers' Market. I think we managed to buy something from every farmer (5 total)...hand-made goats' milk soap, eggs, and whole-hog German sausage (all from Yoder), plum jelly (from Sand HIlls), vegetables from Gaeddert farms here in Buhler, and some baked goods from a Holdeman Mennonite family from Yoder. Since my parents had a wedding to attend later that morning and a funeral in the afternoon, we ventured out with just the five of us after that. We headed north to the Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina. With our annual family membership of the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno we got in for half price! We enjoyed the exercise as we walked throughout the 60 acre zoo. There were lots of animals that we do not have in Fresno, like lions, white tigers, 3 types of rhinos (to whom you could get amazingly close), maned wolves, and South American bears. Enjoying the zoo. The kids getting up close to the tortoise. Climbing on the tractor in the Children's Play and Pet area.

On the way home we stopped by the Smoky Hill Bison Company in Assaria to see the buffalo and buy some buffalo burgers for a BBQ later this week. After getting home and picking up my parents, we headed to Bogey's for dinner (sorry, but no comparison to In N' Out Burger). Then we went across the street to the Kansas State Fairgrounds. It was opening night for the Reno County Fair and they were having a demolition derby. Randy thought this was a must-see for our trip. It was definitely unlike anything else I've ever been to. Before they started, everyone picked who they thought would win out of the 7 cars. Randy and Grandpa Bruce predicted correctly (Randy wanted to make sure I put this on the post).

Yesterday, after going to church in the morning, was spent catching up on some sleep and spending time in the yard together. Good thing we got good rest yesterday, our night's sleep wasn't that great with the super-loud thunder and lightning flashes. We are so not used to that. Hopefully we'll get out to the park today when there's a break in the rain.