Alaska, Mexico, and everywhere in between.

Last week the Sayulita Days fair came to Sayulita, bringing with it rides of all sorts, carnival games, traffic, and opportunities to waste your money. The first night was my birthday and we went just to see what rides there were. We saw lots of different things including bumper carts and electronic bulls, but the most impressive thing was the fireworks show. It was all mortars and crazy big fireworks. In the states, USA, all fireworks displays are barricaded and people usually have to stay about a 200 feet away, but here, in Mexico, they set off the fireworks without warnings, barricades, or any security people. Another huge difference would be that in the states, most mortars or big fireworks go up to about 150 feet high before exploding, but in Mexico, they go up to about 50 feet before exploding and raining down sparks on everybody. Another amazing thing about the fair is the smells. You can smell funnel cake, flan, crapes, hotdogs, candy, soda, churros, and, a lot of alcohol.

My favorite ride at the fair is the bumper carts. They go really fast and make tight turns and you can run into people probably going about 10 mph! One of the other really cool things at the fair was the prizes. There are tons of booths where you can throw darts for different costs and win different prizes including candy, cookies, plates, buckets, top-a-ramen, chips, soda, paintings of jesus, clay minions, silly string, bb guns, and clay jesus's. My parent's favorite thing was a game where you pay to throw rocks at beer bottles and you win different numbers of beers depending on how many rocks hit bottles and break them. One night Sophie, our friend named Cameron, and I went on one of the bouncy house obstacle courses. We played tag and made huge dodges and jumps, once when I was avoiding Sophie, I fell off the side! Sometimes we would jump from the top, where the slides were, to the big bouncy pillars at the bottom. The next night we went back to the fair and I got to watch as everybody spun around and around really fast on a crazy Mexican roller coaster. When they got off we went back to the darts and Sophie won two whole boxes of Oreos. I tried to win some Oreos too but I guess it's not just luck.