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Canfield Fair- hometown

My happy place is always Youngstown. This year I got to share some of the happiness with my hubby. First thing I learned was that parking is free! All my life we parked at the same house and paid. This year we drove in and just parked! We started by the animals which was the opposite of anything that I've ever done.

The fair is the third largest in the state and Ronnie was impressed and loved the animals. Unfortunately, this had to be one of the hottest days of the year. We walked through the animal barns to get relief from the heat. But I had one thing on my mind....cheese on a stick!

In order to find the cheesy goodness that I was looking for we had the first find Ricci's kwikis. This was a play started by my grandma and grandfather. It is housed in a cute trailer that says dog house on it. My grandfather had designed it. By the time I was born they had already sold the business, but we still would go there every year to get a fresh kwiki. It is still owned by the same people who purchased it from my grandparents in 1973. Check out the photos below. And yes I did buy one of the t-shirts. I introduced myself to the two women working, the older woman working remembered my grandmother and grandfather as well as my sister. She stated that they no longer live in town but come in just for the Canfield Fair.

The cheese on a stick and steak on a stick that I had been waiting for are just a few booths down. We stopped and got one of each. My husband was impressed with the steak on the stick and the cheese on the stick was just as I always remembered it.

It was really special to me to be able to walk around and share a bit of my childhood with Ronnie. One of the great things about marriage is learning all about the person from before you had ever met them. Because he is from Cleveland and that is where we live I get to learn about his life growing up all of the time. So being able to go out to Youngstown and do something that was part of my childhood was an amazing experience.






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