For my date day with Joshua, I decided to take him to Olathe Old Settlers Days. It started tonight and goes through the weekend, so I thought it would be fun for us to go to the carnival to ride some rides and eat some food. Joshua was just barely tall enough to ride most of the rides (there were a couple that he was too short to ride, and he was easily tall enough for the kid rides). I wasn't sure if he would be too scared to try some of the faster ones, or would be scared once he got on them, but neither was the case. It was supposed to storm later in the evening, so we rode the tall Ferris wheel first in case the lightning came. That was the only ride that he showed some trepidation about getting on, but once he was on, he thought it was great. After that we rode a lot of the typical other carnival ride, including the classic teacups and some or the more spinning and aerial ones. Joshua wanted to do the Ferris wheel a second time, so we got on, but before everyone was loaded, they announced the lightning was getting close, so they had to close the ride, and so we all disembarked. We then got in line to do another ride, but then they closed that ride and all rides. So we then went to the food trucks to get in line for our late dinner, and they then closed the food trucks just before we were served, but the guy inside decided to serve us anyway since we were right there.
Joshua and I enjoyed our corn dogs and nachos at a nearby picnic bench shelter since the entire fair had closed at that point due to the coming storm. After eating, we ran to the car in the pouring rain and came home. We had a really fun time, and I was really proud of Joshua for being so brave and really happy that he was able to enjoy so many of the rides.
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