MONROE — The young brothers with sun-bleached hair watched as a carnival ride spun people around 40 feet above the fairgrounds.
“Mommy, can we go on that one? You only go high, but you don’t flip,” Kellen Guler, 6, said.
Sunday was Kellen and Camden Guler’s first time at the Evergreen State Fair. Their parents said the boys were finally old enough to go on the roller coasters. They were ready to try nearly every ride at the fair.
The family from Snohomish joined crowds of people who packed into Monroe to catch the fair’s closing weekend. Monday is the last day.
On closing day, fairgoers will get a $2 discount on admission. Drag racing, the carnival, animal shows, karaoke and the baby diaper derby are on the schedule.
Kellen and Camden Guler, 8, spent all day at the fair despite the late-summer heat. They had planned to go to the rodeo Sunday night. Many families sought shade beneath trees as temperatures reached the mid-80s. The line outside a drink stand in the shape of a giant lemon grew throughout the afternoon.
Though it was Camden Guler’s first time at the fair, he wasn’t easily wigged out by the fast rides. His younger brother, however, said there was one he wouldn’t try.
“The one where you flip and it’s on fire,” Kellen Guler said, recalling a ride called the Ring of Fire.
Meanwhile, Serenity and Octavia Greenwood from Granite Falls had just disembarked The Zipper. A nearly constant stream of shouts could be heard during the sisters’ turn on the ride. In it, riders sit in spinning chairs while rotating on a structure that moves up and down. Several people stepped off the ride with wobbly legs.
“Even though it’s one of the scarier rides, it’s one of my favorites,” Octavia Greenwood, 16, said.
Her 12-year-old sister was just happy she didn’t get sick. She already had her eye on the next ride.
On the east side of the grounds, fairgoers milled through stables and barns looking at bunnies, goats and horses. The towering Clydesdale horses appeared to be a hit.
Grace Simpson, 8, of Woodinville, petted a Clydesdale named Zeke on the nose. She thought he was unique. He had one black foot and three white feet. She said she wasn’t afraid even though Zeke was twice her height.
“I’ve seen many horses in my life,” Grace said.
But she did wonder how people ride Clydesdales. A step stool didn’t seem adequate to mount the huge animals, she said. Perhaps a ladder would be needed.
Caitlin Tompkins: 425-339-3192; ctompkins@heraldnet.com
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