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Do it thrillingly on the Extreme Scream ride, tranquilly with the bunnies, quirkily at the Hobby Hall, in a silly way by SpongeBob SquarePants, downright crazily with Cannonball Man, or all of the atop of. Do the Puyallup Fair your way, Friday through Sept. 21.

The rides are a outbreak, from the wildest roller coasters to the tamest Sillyville kiddie rides. Don’t expiration in smoke the draft horse shows, Piglet Palace, alpacas, yaks, wallabies, 4-H cattle, goats, sheep, domestic fowls, rabbits and pigeons at the barns and hands-on Fair Farm. Check out the gigantic pumpkins at the Planting Patch, quilts and cooking demos at the Home Arts exhibit and prizewinning flowers at the Floral Building. The Hobby Hall is an always-amazing look at the dress of things the many the crowd collect, from expected to strange, historical to hysterical. See Cannonball Man blast lacking of a cannon and flap 250 feet across the fairgrounds twice a set time, or meet your favorite animated Nickelodeon characters at Toonzville.

Saturdays are usually the fair’s busiest days, Mondays and Tuesdays the least crowded. With so many attractions, doing the Puyallup takes time and stamina. Tuesdays from one side Fridays, handicapped-accessible People Movers offer transportation around the fairgrounds, as crowds permit. Set aside some quarters for the foot-massager machines that put the pep back in your step or go with everyone’s favorite fair re-energizer and stop for a scone, onion burger, cotton candy or any other of the fair’s famous food.

Puyallup celebrates the fair’s opening with a Western rodeo pageant on Meridian Street at 10 a.m. Friday. The fair continues daily through Sept. 21.

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Time: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays through Sept. 21.

Cost: Admission $10/adults, $8/ages 6-18 and ages 62 and older; free for children 5 and younger. Admission free for everyone 10 a.m.-noon today only. See Web site for information on discounts and specials.

Location: Puyallup Fair and Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup

Getting in that place: From Highway 512 in Puyallup, be conscious of the Meridian Street exit.

Other routes:

From Seattle and the north, take Interstate 5 South to the Puyallup going off, turn not crooked at the end of the exit, left at earliest traffic light, onto Highway 161 to Puyallup; appropriate time right at West Main Street, left at Fifth Avenue South and follow signs to fair parking.

From Bellevue and the Eastside, take I-405 South to Exit 2, Highway 167 south. Follow 167 to Highway 512 West, hold out to the first exit, Pioneer Avenue; at the illume at the end of the exit turn right, persist to 14th Street Southeast, metamorphose right on 14th Street, right at Seventh Avenue Southeast and follow signs to fair parking.