Idaho County Fair, Last Day (Finally!)

Day four of the fair started out with a parade in downtown Cottonwood. You should see this parade. It lasted all of about 10 minutes. I chuckled the first time I ever saw it. If you sit in a three block section, you get to see the parade twice. They turn around and come back up the street. Only in small-town-America! For such a small parade, the kids still made a pretty good haul on candy. Yeah, candy!!

After the parade and a yummy burger from the Lion's Club stand (we had one every day--we love those burgers!), it was time for the sale. The prices were up from last year. Ellea got $2.90/lb and Nicole got $3.10/lb. At 250-280 pounds, that's some pretty good money! Too bad the real pig farmers don't make that much--we'd all be in the pig business! The beef and sheep kids make similar money. It's a good deal. The buyers are all very supportive. Our girls' money goes into savings and a small portion goes into their pocket to reward their hard work.

Ellea had a hard time saying goodbye to her pig which struck me as odd since she was a tad scared of and not all that fond of her pig. She said it was because her pig trusted her and she was sending it away to be killed. That girl has such a big heart. It's hard to be soft-hearted and raise animals for meat.

It was a good day. We were all exhausted from a busy week, but did we go home? Of course not! It was time for the after-party!! We hung out with some other crazies who had their campers there (and lived within a 10 mile radius). We had burgers together and chatted the night away. We considered going home to sleep in our own comfy beds, but the evening got away from us and so we slept in not-so-comfy, but close-by beds.