How a simple game turned into a ridiculous Petsmart adventure

For those of you who do not live in Colorado, maybe y’all aren’t aware of the fact that the Colorado State Fair is happening right now down in Pueblo. It’s a cute little fair – we were expecting something a bit bigger, like how the North Dakota State Fair is – but still, it was cute. We had fun.

Until we came upon the fish game.

You know what game I am talking about – the one where you toss ping pong balls to a bunch of jars filled with 15 cent goldfish, and if you get a ball in the glass you get to keep the fish? We saw it on the way in and I told Daniel we would stop by on the way out and get a fish.

That would be Mistake #1.

We filled our little fair cash card up and got all our favorite goodies – fried Oreos, turkey legs, etc. – and saved the games for last. Pretty sure Disneyland costs less than the state fair does, just FYI; they don’t accept cash down there, you have to load funds onto a “cash card”. With the cost of fair food and multiple bottles of water, we were left with about $10 on our cash card for games.

That would be Mistake #2.

You see, the kids totally got their hopes up about getting a fish. We saw every other dang kid/family win a fish. We were confident – how hard could it freaking be if babies can do it?

That would be Mistake #3.

We tossed over 60 balls between the 6 of us. Guess what? No fish. No. Dang. Fish. And at that point, just about no more funds on the cash card. So it was a zillion (100) degrees out, we were loaded up with junk food and sugar, no fish, and four disappointed kids. Which is how we found ourself at Petsmart. We start looking at the fish, and realize we have no tank. And then the girls wanted rocks for the bottom. And Danny wanted to buy a decoration to put inside. And then Noah saw the bettas.

Guess who ended up with a new tank, rocks, a shipwrecked pair of wine barrels and a blue betta? That would be us.

Welcome to the party, Peter Pan the Blue Betta.