Wednesday was my calmest day of the fair so far.

I watched my friend, Lynne, show her Brown Swiss when I got to the fair in the morning. I stayed and watched my cousin and Lynne show until around 10:30 a.m. when I walked over to get some biscuits and gravy from the St. Peter’s food booth before working to dip ice cream for Lot Hill Dairy Farm.

I worked there until around 4 p.m. and met a lot of older people asking about my great-uncle, Bob, who used to make the ice cream, and I listened to them tell some stories about the old festival and the old ice cream he made.

When I got done, I walked around with my friend, Jasmine, and finally ended up falling asleep under my family’s tent next to the swine barn.

When I woke up, it was almost 8 p.m., so I finally went and got myself my chicken salad wraps out of my cooler and started walking around again. I ran into Lynne, and we walked around the midway for two hours talking to some friends and family and wasting a little bit of money on some games.

I left the group to clean up my pig pens and to take down the tent because we heard a bad storm was coming. After we got the tent secured, it was 11:20 p.m., so we left to go home.

Michael Claycamp is a 15-year-old Cortland resident and sophomore at Seymour High School.