Parking Lot Carnivals

Let's start with an explanation... These are when the five or six flashing light rides and the twenty or so "win a stuffed toy" games come and take up residence in the K-Mart parking lot for a week or so. You pay a couple dollars to get in and you pay for tickets to ride rides and you pay for carnival food and you pay to play games to win a prize that you could have bought inside that K-Mart for less than you spent to win it.

Now this is something semi-new to me. I don't ever remember doing these as a kid. Since I've been older I have taken my brother-in-law to the fair (much the same concept but in a field rather than a parking lot) and I have seen these all over the place.

So last night, Ryan and I passed one of these fairs at about 9 at night, so we turned around and went. We ate a funnel cake (with only powdered sugar, none of that fruit stuff on my funnel cakes!) and we rode a ride. We got off of the ride laughing so hard and headed home. I guess it's a little odd that we did all that just for one ride, no prizes and a funnel cake. Sometimes you just have to be a kid again.

In case I've inspired you... http://members.aol.com/parklinks/carnivals.htm