Today I joined four other moms for a day at the L. A. County Fair. There were so many school groups and other people there it was quite overwhelming, especially at first. But the kids all had fun watching and petting the animals, exploring some old trains and a large set-up of scale model trains.

Here are Alyssa and Jonathan riding tractors.

Alyssa has wanted to see inside a train for a long time, and this was her chance.

Jonathan loved the whole day, too.

One of the cutest things we saw were a baby goat and a piglet playing together. The piglet would chase the goat until it jumped up on a log. Then the goat would paw at the log and put his little head down like he was trying to butt the piglet. Then he would jump down and the game would start again.

The most amazing thing to me were these rainbow-colored roses. Yes, they are real! Colored dye was injected into the stems in four places which created the mix of colors. They are called Italian Tapestry roses.