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I'd never been to anything like that before, but it looked like it was worth checking out. HIGHWAY 1 13OTH ANNUAL COUNTRY FAIR 1 FOR FAMILY FUN! FOOD! CONTESTS! PRIZES! The fair was a few hours away, so that meant me being cramped in the backseat again, which was starting to get old. Thankfully, after an hour, Mom offered to switch places with me. When I got up to the front seat, I couldn't believe how much ROOM there was.

And it wasn't just all the space that was awesome. I even had individual temperature settings and my own cup holder. I went to change the radio station, but Dad stopped me. He said only the DRIVER gets to pick the music. I didn't think that was fair, but I wasn't gonna complain and risk getting sent to the backseat. MY TRUCK IS BUSTED BUT MY DOG HE LOVES ME.

Dad's music was pretty awful, but the view totally made up for it. When you're in the back, you don't have any sense of what's ahead. Sitting up front, I had a whole new perspective and could almost see why Mom was so gung ho about taking this road trip. When we took the exit for the country fair, we came to a stoplight. We were behind a minivan that was the same exact model as ours, only purple. The kids in the van looked kind of familiar. It took me a second to realize they were the same ones from last night.

I hadn't told Mom and Dad about the incident with the kids and the cleaning cart, because I was worried I wouldn't come out looking too great. And they definitely didn't need to know about my run-in with Mr. Beardo. The kids in the purple van recognized me right away, and started making obnoxious faces. I wasn't gonna just sit there and take it from those little punks, so I made a face at THEM.

The skinny one made the same face back at ME, and the second he did, the light turned green and they accelerated. When their van lurched forward, the little kid face-planted into the back window. SPLAT Dad passed them on the left, and Mr. Beardo got a real good look at me.

Luckily, the parking lot for the fair was only a few hundred feet up the road. Once we stopped, I wanted to stay inside until I was sure we weren't being tailed by the purple van. But it looked like we were in the clear. Manny was still asleep in his car seat, so Mom said she'd stay back with him and the rest of us could go on ahead. The fair was a LOT different than I thought it was gonna be. I expected it to have a Ferris wheel and a merry-go-round and stuff like that, but instead there were a bunch of tents with farm animals and booths with homemade food.