Union Fair

We are in Maine at Jim and Mary's. We arrived here Tuesday evening. Wallace was with us at home from Sunday evening through Monday suppertime, and we left for Maine Tuesday morning.  Katie, Savanna and Brendon are here too. Wednesday, KSBE and I went to Union, ME to the Blueberry Fair, which is a typical country fair with midway. It was raining hard when we got there. Hardly anyone was there and all the midway rides were closed, which disappointed Brendon. At one point, the sky opened and we took refuge under an awning at a game of chance - try to knock a ping-pong ball off the neck of a bottle with a cork shot out of a compressed air gun. Since we were there, I said, "Let's try it." So for $5, we each got two shots. No luck. I think my second shot hit the bottle just under the ball, but it was hard to tell. I did wonder if the balls might be glued to the bottles, but I didn't say so.

We watched the ox pulls and sheep judging, and eventually the rain stopped and it cleared. 

But the day ended badly. Savanna went on the Ferris wheel with Brendon, and getting off, she fell and dislocated her ankle. Later, at the ER, she learned it was also broken in three places! So she is having ankle surgery this morning. That changes everything and we are praying she will have as good a result as can be hoped. But it will be a long recuperation! 

                Union Fair poster

                                       Ox pulls

                                Sheep judging