The Big E

This weekend we (along with the Stacks) headed to West Springfield, MA to go to the Big E. If you are not familiar with this it's a HUGE fair out in Western MA. It's probably as big as the Topsfield & Deerfield fairs combined.

The original plan was to go to the fair on Saturday, spend the night in a hotel, and head home on Sunday. Mother Nature had other plans, however, so we used Saturday as a fun day at the hotel and went to the fair today! The kids had a blast at the hotel. Honestly, I think they had more fun at the hotel than they did at the fair! We stayed at the Homewood Suties in Holyoke and, thanks to Brian, really lucked out with the rooms we got! We even got to take the kids swimming in the indoor pool!





Thankfully the Stacks were able to switch their room to the one across the hall. The way the rooms were designed we were able to put our boys in the bedroom shut the door and hang out in the living room area. The Stacks came over and we just left the two doors open. It was nice to be able to have some adult time while the children slept! In the morning we enjoyed the free continental breakfast before heading over to the fair.



This was my first time going to the Big E. I was very impressed. There was a lot of interesting food, vendors and the kids enjoyed the rides!









And of course no fair would be complete without seeing the animals. An Alpaca even gave David a kiss! I was sad I didn't have my camera ready for that one but he was so excited.