I just went outside to make sure everything was locked up for the night and I realized it's really cold outside. June is just around the corner and here I am running inside to avoid getting the chills. Then I came inside and realized...Oh yeah, the Orange Show starts tomorrow.
We all know what that means...rainy, gloomy weather for at least a day probably beginning tomorrow. For those of us who have never heard the story the Orange Show grounds were built on Indian burial grounds and a curse was put on the Orange Show that each year there would be bad weather during the time the Orange Show was on. That's the story I have known and usually the first day or somewhere during the Orange Show weekend the weather is gloomy.
I have gone to the Orange Show the last few years but this year I have no desire to go at all really. I guess it's different now than what it used to be back in the day. I remember when the Orange Show would be in town for at least two weeks and everybody you were related to or were friends with were there. Back then the rides were all over the Orange Show grounds, not just the little two small rows of about fifteen rides, including kiddy rides that it has now.
The food was great and back then you did not have to apply for a loan to be able to afford it, it was cheap! That could also be due to the fact that back then my parents were the ones with the money. Now that I'm the one paying for stuff, it's not so cheap.
When the Orange Show was great there used to be actual concerts there. No, I am not just talking about a concert of the local band or some crazy wacky funny hypnotist, I am talking about actual singers that we actually listened to on the radio, what happened to that?
I am sure I am not the only one who remembers taking one of those black and white photos with your friends or your family and then you had the big button of the picture that you would wear as a souvenir. Yes, those were the days!
I am not trying to completely bash the Orange Show but it's just not the same. When my kids were little I used to love to take them to ride the little kiddy rides. Their happiness made up for what the Orange Show became. They would love to get on the bumper cars and go on little rides together, those too were the days.
Now the kids are older and they act like they don't even like each other most of the time. The boy is talking about going with his friends and hasn't even asked if we were going. The girl is undecided but it's really not a big deal to her as it used to be. I guess when you're little it seems so much better and bigger. To me it just seems like an expensive waste of a day, sorry. It also makes me think of the past. I remember going with my mom and dad and my dad being scared to get on the ferris wheel since he was scared of heights. Like him, I am also scared of heights and stay away from the ferris wheel too. I remember sitting at some of the concerts with my mom. I think the last one we saw together sooo long ago was Marie Osmond. I miss my dad and wish he was alive still so I could dare him to brave the ferris wheel with me. And I miss my mom and wish she lived closer so we could go to any concert. I would be happy to even go see a lame hypnotist show as long as I was with her.
So why should I even go? While the Orange Show will make thousands of people happy this weekend, it only makes me sad, so I am staying home and waiting for September. That's when the LA County (Pomona) fair will be around and that's a different story!
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