Every carnival has to have one--the Ferris Wheel at the 2nd Annual Fun Fair.Sometimes there are so many things happening on the Outer Banks that we don't quite get to mention everything until the event is past.
We'll rack up the 2nd Annual Soundside Fun Fair to that explanation.
Fun Fair sounds great, but Carnival is what it really is.
A Great Time by Roanoke Sound
By no means is this a huge event, but the fun factor is off the charts with some great rides, fried dough, funnel cakes, arcade games...in short, everything expected in a traveling carnival.
And Outer Banks visitors and local families responded. Held Thursday through Thursday through Friday at the Nags Head Event Site, it was packed every night and every day.
Especially at night, with a breeze coming off Roanoke Sound, and the lights and sounds of rides and children laughing, it was magic. A step back in time perhaps, when the actual event eclipsed any vicarious experience.
Rides and Food
Favorite ride? That's a tough one. The lines were long at the Fireball where cars drop along a circular track, faster and faster until everything goes all the way around the circle.
Then there was the Scooter—bumper cars. It doesn't matter that they have probably been around for 60 or 70 years at least. Adults, kids, anyone driving them is smiling an laughing the whole time they are bumping into cars and being bumped into.
There were also the arcade games—and these are all of the classics. Trying to put a basketball through a very non regulation hoop; squirting water into the mouth of a clown figure to see who gets to the top first.
The funnel cakes, fresh out of the fryer—amazing. There was also a red velvet funnel cake, but the consensus was, go for the original.
The Soundside Fun Fair is a major fundraising event for Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County (CYP)—a local nonprofit that has worked wonders in reaching out to families with children.
Given how important the CYP mission is and the success of the fair, we're certain it will be back next year.
