Every October, my neighborhood throws a Sunday afternoon carnival and naturally this was Mattie's first carnival.

Here we are walking to the carnival

She patiently waited in the grass while I played some carnival games

She had her first cotton candy (and ate tons of other crumbs on the ground)

Just a pumpkin girl in a carnival world

Tons of people commented that she was a good pupper, and this boy who was about 12 whipped out his phone and asked if he could take pictures of her.

I played bingo for an hour and a half and she napped the whole time. Also I WON NOTHING. It was the first year since 2015 that I didn't win.

Then I went to the food booths and asked for a sno cone with no flavoring. A pup cone.

She had a highly successful first carnival and was very sleepy and soggy (it started pouring rain) after several hours of fun.