One Toss!

Everything at the fair went as planned last night. The rides, the snacks, the fun. Not really much to report about the rides. Sveta loved them as usual. Elliott was tired and acted like he could take them or leave them. He looked like he was, well... along for the ride :-)

One funny story--- The very first stop of the night was the ring toss. We just happened to pass this booth on the way to the rides. This was not your run-of-the-mill ring toss game. The bottles were spaced far apart and the game was not set up for winning. The only prizes available were huge (that should tell you how difficult this game was). It was your typical carnival rip-off game. However, Sveta wanted to play and that's EXACTLY what we did. There was a bucket of rings available (probably about 30) for $5. That's what we purchased... a five dollar bucket of "not a snowball's chance of winning". Sveta weakly tossed the first two rings and they didn't even reach the bottles. They tumbled harmlessly to the ground. Being a good Goppa, I decided to show her how to play this game. I grabbed a ring, explained how I was going to gently toss the ring high enough for it to land in the widely scattered array of bottles. Guess what happened? I pitched the ring in a looping arc and it landed smack dab on the neck of one of the bottles. I'm telling you it didn't rattle or bounce around. It looked like it landed in glue. I couldn't believe it! One toss and WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER! We weren't at the fair for two minutes and I was the hero for the night (it also didn't hurt that I had a pocketful of quarters and ride tickets). Sveta chose a gigantic horse as her prize which all the adults got to take turns lugging around for the whole evening. But ask me if it was worth it... oh yeah, no doubt about it. Just building memories. That's all.