Old Time Fair

Fun evening, good music, lively beer garden, We always have fun here!
Gotta have a Lion Burger and Lion Paw PLUS the United Methodist Women’s Pie Sale is 5 Star every time!!!

This was a fun, albeit small fair. this is not necessarily a bad thing. I had two kids with me and therefore having the thing in a contained area made it much easier since we could bounce from activity to activity and each could get something that they wanted without us having to walk too far.
They had some rides, some food, some fun activities, and lots of nice people.
I am no ride expert, but there was a ferris wheel, one of the circular spinning swings, a tilt-​a-​wheel, and lots more. Looked fun, but we ran out of time.
The food was a good selection with hamburgers, Mexican, Hawaiian, and pizza for the main courses. There was cotton candy, rhubarb/​strawberry pie, elephant ears, and churros for dessert. We tried the burgers, the pizza, pie, and the churros. The burgers were pretty fair (haha pun), but the pie and the churros were both better than I expected and quite tasty.
They had nice kayak&canoe rentals, some shows/​demonstrations, and fun stuff. They had a whole truckload of e-​drums for the kids to try (headphones included!!!).
The rubber duck race was silly and fun even though the concept seemed odd at first. They dumped in a whole bucket load of numbered rubber ducks up river and then whoever’s numbered one got down first wins. Fun!
The highlight for me was the lumber-​jack competition with all sorts of crazy chainsaw and axe demonstrations and contests. The craziest of these had to be the motorcycle engines powering some chainsaws that were crazy loud and crazy fast at cutting up wood.
All in all a fun time!

Going to the Old Time Fair reminds me in the best sort of way that West Linn is a small community. The Old Willamette neighborhood is celebrating its 100^th anniversary and the fair is celebrating its 52^nd year.
We’ve been going for the last five years so we have a number of favorite things:
**Lion’s Club burgers with grilled sweet Walla Walla onions
**waterski show
**lumberjack competition
**carnival rides (almost all are fine for ages 5 and up but will bore teenagers)
**evening concert (The Bob Miller All-​Star Band headlined Saturday night).
The fair begins on Friday night and continues through the weekend with a parade Saturday morning. Also, isn’t a summer fair the best place to people watch and catch a glimpse of the teenage mating rituals. It breaks my heart to think my boys are only a few years away from getting their hearts stomped by the ladies.